Is it possible to make the Team Project Portal of TFS public to everyone? Currently I get prompted for a user and password when I browse to the portal. For me this isn't a problem because I have a user, but I would like to use the link to a work item (a link like this: http://mytfsserver:8080/WorkItemTracking/WorkItem.aspx?artifactMonike...
We're trailing the use of the built in bug tracking, and have written some integration into our helpdesk software that allows for escalation via workitems. One thing I haven't found out how to do, is to merge all changes associated with a work item (say to go from dev branch to main) - I appreciate you can double click on a changeset in...
Hello, I would like to check out various files, edit them and check them back in. However, I do not wish to edit files that are already checked out so I would like to check for this before I make a call to Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl.Client.Workspace.PendEdit method. I could go through the following procedure: Call GetPend...
We have a new installation of TFS 2010 (on SQL Server 2008), and I'm planning the backup and recovery process. It seems the configuration information and data is stored in the Tfs_Configuration and Tfs_DefaultCollection databases (and additional Tfs_[CollectionName] dbs if you have more than one collection). In a test setup, I tried ba...
Basically what the title says. I am looking to install the Visual Studio 2010 Beta for compiling personal C++ projects. I haven't made it through the tutorial for setting things up, but do I need the Server part of the program if I don't plan on doing any team projects? Thanks. Edit: Well it looks like I can't install the Team Foundati...
Hi all, When I change the quality of a build in TFS 2010 (to production quality), I would like to have the build uploaded to my FTP site on a remote server. Are there any tools you know of that can accomplish this? If not, any suggestions on how I can do this myself? Thanks! ...
I have been looking for a way to build my own DataSource for data driven unit tests in MSTEST. I have not found any documentation how to do this or any base class or interface that I need to implement. Any ideas? I'm looking at building something similar to FITNesse but using Team Foundation Server for my backing store. ...
At my new company I have been tasked with setting up and presenting TFS as a full life cycle solution. I have plenty of experience working with TFS as a developer but I can't seem to find any good resources regarding setting up process via templates, things like modifying work items templates, creating sprints (We are using scrum) , bu...
Hi I am connecting to TFS through Visual Studio 2008 Team Explorer. Lets say TFS is on machine A and Visual Studio 2008 is on machine B (my box). I have a local account on machine A (i.e. A\username) that has admin privileges for TFS (installed on machine A). Whenever I connect to TFS from team explorer it always uses the my domain cred...
I have the following goals: Shared source control with continuous integration The ability to check in incremental changes that may or may not build (i.e., breaking changes) without affecting other team members The ability, without days of work, to get a report of the incremental changes checked in (not a report of the FACT that a chec...
Anyone know if this (generating a unified diff) is possible and if so, how? Thanks. ...
Hi Is there a way to download process template related to one particular project in TFS. I am aware of the "Download" option present at "Team Foundation Server Settings -> Process Template Manager". Scenario 1 I created a project with standard MSF - CMMI process template. But later I added a few reports and custom work item types. ...
What are the branching characteristics of TFS? I am asking the question because I don't have experience of the tool. Let me discuss what context I am putting it in... Early Branching/Heavy Branching If we look at the tools Perforce, Subversion, CVS, for instance, we see that branching is effectively taking a copy of the trunk. i.e...
I am just starting out with Team Foundation Server 2008, and one of the hangups I've experienced is the following: I create a new Team Project, as well as a Project Portal (which I believe is just a Sharepoint site). When I go to view the project portal in the browser, it prompts me for a username and password. I want it to use diges...
Hi I have a few work items in TFS 2008 with file attachments. I have generated a custom report based on the TFS work item data using ssrs 2008. Now I wanted to embed file attachments (related to the work items) within the ssrs report. How to extract the attachments from tfs database and embed in the report? Thanks. ...
Hello. I'd like to see how TFS will work for my command. So I'd like to move our current GIT repository to TFS database. We've used GIT for it's prevailed branching support so I'd like to use TFS 2010 to address that issue. Now question is. How do I export our GIT repo to TFS. Obviously it's some kind of script. Does have anyone done th...
How can I export an entire Visual Studio project? I want to get a non-source-controlled copy on my local hard drive. I come from a SVN background and I'm just getting into TFS... In Tortoise SVN, I would use the export all command for this -- I would right-click the project directory and drag it to another directory and choose "Export a...
i have one TFS server, with 4 team projects in it. i want to copy folders of of one team project into another team project. here's the tree - TFS(Server) |_ A1(Team project1) |_ A2(Team project2) |______(Folder1) |______(Folder2) |______(Folder3) |______(Folder4) |_ A3(Team project3) |_ A4...
I am having a trunk and two branches for an asp.net application. To run all three in a pc i need to create different virtual directory for each project. How could it be done so while merging changes from branches to trunk will not bring that virtual directory change as well? I am using Visual studio 2008 TFS 2008 ...
We've been considering trying out the TFS 2010 Beta 2 as an upgrade from our existing installation, but I cannot find anything in the docs explaining how many users are available. Has anyone found information on this? ...