A few months back my team switched our source control over to Subversion from Visual SourceSafe, and we haven't been happier. Recently I've been looking at Team Foundation Server, and at least on the surface, it seems very impressive. There is some great integration with Visual Studio, and lots of great tools for DBA's, testers, projec...
I'm currently evaluating the MSF for CMMI process template under TFS for use on my development team, and I'm having trouble understanding the need for separate bug and change request work item types. I understand that it is beneficial to be able to differentiate between bugs (errors) and change requests (changing requirements) when gene...
I'm trying to customize some TFS work items via the VS2008 xml editor, but every time I open a work item xml file it jumps to the graphical designer. All that gives me is a "View XML" button that doesn't let you edit the xml directly. ...
I've only been using VS 2008 Team Foundation for a few weeks. Over the last few days, I've noticed that sometimes one of my objects/controls on my page just disappears from intellisense. The project builds perfectly and the objects are still in the HTML, but I still can't find the object. Any one else notice this? Edit: For what it's ...
I'm creating some custom work items in TFS and the helptext field seems handy but I don't see where it is being displayed in Team Explorer or Team System Web Access. Where is this information displayed? ...
Is anyone out there using Team Foundation Server within a team that is geographically distributed? We're in the UK, trying work with a team in Australia and we're finding it quite tough. Our main two issues are: Things are being checked out to us without us asking on a get latest. Even when using a proxy, most thing take a while to...
I support a third party system that uses COM, classic ASP, and SQL Server. Our company has gone to using TFS as our source control provider - which pushes things through Visual Studio. So, what's the best way to get a classic asp front-end into Visual Studio? ...
I've got multiple projects in a couple different workspaces. However, it seems like I can never figure out how to change my current workspace. The result is that files that I have checked out on my machine are shown to be checked out by somebody else and are not accessible. Edit: Workspaces. ...
Around here we have been working with a bunch of Visual Source Safe repositories for about 10 years or so. Now I want to get rid of sourcesafe and move on to Team Foundation Server. Do you have any tips or tricks for me before I embark on this migration? What are the things I have to be careful about? I am sure this migration will m...
How would you manage the lifecycle and automated build process when some of the projects (C# .csproj projects) are part of the actual build system? Example: A.csproj is a project that uses MSBuild tasks that are implemented in BuildEnv.csproj. Both projects are part of the same product (meaning, BuildEnv.csproj frequently changes as the...
What are the best practices in setting up a new instance of TFS 2008 Workgroup edition? Specifically, the constraints are as follows: Must install on an existing Windows Server 2008 64 bit TFS application layer is 32 bit only Should I install SQL Server 2008, Sharepoint and the app layer in a virtual instance of Windows Server 200...
I'd like to rollback a change I made recently in TFS. In Subversion, this was pretty straightforward. However, it seems to be an incredible headache in TFS: Option 1: Get Prior Version Manually get prior version of each file Check out for edit Fail - the checkout (in VS2008) forces me to get the latest version Option 2: Get TFS Pow...
How do I get the latest version of my solution recursively like its done in the solution explorer context menu of Visual Studio? Need to do this from the command line or via a macro. /* 'tf get' only gets contents of a folder recursively (not solution). It does not look at project dependencies and so on. That won't work. */ I'm trying ...
Hi, I want to get an overview of files that are updated in TFS (that someone else checked in) that I don't have the latest version for. Thanks ...
I use TFS 2008. We run unit tests as part of our continuous integration build and integration tests nightly. What other types of testing do you automate and include in your build process? what technologies do you use to do so? I'm thinking about smoke tests, performance tests, load tests but don't know how realistic it is to integr...
I have some webtests I'd like to run as part of a build. Can webtests be run on the TFS build server without VS 2008 team system tester edition installed? Webtests can only be recorded using the tester edtion of visual studio. Here's a post from Jeff while he was at Vertigo. My question is in order to run these tests on the build s...
When merging two code branches in Team Foundation Server I get the following error: "the given key was not present in the dictionary" Some files are checked out and show up in "Pending Changes", but no changes are actually made. I have a workaround: Attempt to merge (fails with error) Get latest from trunk Undo all pending ch...
Hi, I was on codeplex and trying to connect to their source control using team explorer. No joy though. I tried connecting with https or http, using the server name and the project name. As I do not have a user on codeplex I could not login. I am just trying to check out some code without changing it. My question is: How can you con...
I like the status email sent by TFS's alerts mechanism when a build breaks. However I would like to send such an email to the entire team and not rely on the team to subscribe to the alert... Having a hard time producing a nice and detailed enough message by myself when overriding the "OnBuildBreak" and using the MSBuildCommunityTasks E...
In TFS whats the easiest way of linking a backlog item to a large number of other backlog items, without doing them one at a time? I do not have access to the underlying database so am unable to write a query to do it. ...