I have recently set up team foundation server 2008. When i add a changeset to a bug, the link from the bug itself does not work. It give the following error: Changeset vstfs:///VersionControl/Changeset/22 does not exist. even though the changeset exists. ...
Someone left the organisation but before leaving, he locked all the files for an unknown reason. How do you unlock them all so that the other developers can work? ...
When I right-click a solution in VS2008 and select Check In... I am presented with a list of changed files with check boxes and a comment area. (This is done against TFS.) Our check-in process requires that we enter this list of changed files into the bug tracking ticket. This requires typing in the name of each each file: time-consumin...
I have an issue where we tried to upgrade our TFS 2005 server to 2008. During the install we encountered the error that it could not configure SQL Reporting Services. The log files showed that during the creation/configuration of the virtual directories for SQL Reporting Services (the Reports directory to be exact) a FileNotFoundExceptio...
We do this using the 'Advanced' button on the checkin dialog now (with Merant, nee PVCS) but the 'Advanced' button is disabled when I set TFS as my SCC provider. Is there a switch we can flip on either side to enable this? Or do we need to write some custom extension? Or can I get the TFS changeset number to associate with the change...
Hi folks, are there any free Team Foundation Server sites we can use for our private development? Please don't say CodePlex (which I love) because that means the code is all opensource. Lastly, I also understand that some people might raise the issue of having their private code hosted somewhere by people they do not know, etc.. so ple...
Hello All, I'm having trouble with branching in Visual Studio TFS. This may be due to the method in which I am developing, but if this is the case, please let me know what the best practice is with branching and I will change our procedure. About a month ago, I branched a project so that I could begin developing a new version of the w...
When I create a TFS report of a query with the Excel integration features (we are using Excel 2003), Excel resets formatting of all cells after clicking the "Refresh" button in the TFS Toolbar. Our team likes to print this report and drag it into our weekly meeting as it accurately lists all our open tasks. Bad formatting is a pain, tho...
What are the steps to get Team Foundation Server running unit tests when a given build runs? What are the caveats / pitfalls / workarounds a dev or sysadmin should be aware of when setting up a TFS server to do this for the first time? What are common troubleshooting steps for unit test problems during builds? ...
For some solutions, when I open them Visual Studio will get files that aren't in the project (particularly from obj/Debug) and add it to the changeset and I always have to perform a Undo Pending Changes operation on them. It's annoying. Is there any way to prevent Visual Studio from behaving in this way? ...
I'm evaluating Microsoft Team Foundation Server for my customer, who currently uses Visual SourceSafe and nothing else. They have explicitly expressed a desire to implement a more rigid and process-driven environment as their application is in production and they have future releases to consider. The particular areas I'm trying to cover...
Hi All, We have TFS installed in a US server. We need to login into VPN to access the TFS server. TFS is configured to use with company's domain user account. However my system is part of the domain. Hence I couldn't access the TFS. I have Visual Studio Team System Developer edition. Can someone here help how to access TFS server instal...
We're running into performance issues with our implementation of Team Foundation Build Server and I'm running out of ideas on how to speed things up. We've already added a few PropertyGroup elements to increase the performance on several steps (SkipClean, SkipLabel, SkipInitializeWorkspace), but I think we need to undergo a major restruc...
My company is moving from svn (and open source products) to TFS (and MS products). We've used maven in the past for packaging-up pre-built components into release-ready packages. Is there a tool in TFS or MS-Land as powerful as maven to do this? I've looked at msbuild, but it seems a little less robust than Maven. ...
I am implementing multiple custom checkin policies for TFS and I am wondering if they all need to be in the same assembly or if I have to put each one in its own assembly. ...
I'm intrigued by the idea in TeamCity of pre-testing commits (i.e. verifying they don't break the build before allowing check-in to occur) and I'm wondering if there is any way to implement this in TFS. It looks like TeamCity can interface to TFS version control as a backing store but of course I'd prefer a free solution. ...
Is there a way to set "work offline" in TFS without having to try opening a solution, waiting for it to time out, and then having Visual Studio work out that it has failed? It seems a touch ridiculous that I can't just tick a box to tell it myself, seeing as I'm probably the one most qualified to know when I'm not in the office! ...
I would like to automate the deployment of my SSIS and SSAS artifacts to remote development SQL Server 2005 & 2008 instances on a scheduled basis. What would be the best solution for this? I am using TFS 2008 as the source control system, so I'd like to integrate the solution with MSBuild and a scheduled Team Build. ...
In Team Build 2008, the Drop Location for a build is no longer specified in the .proj file, and instead is stored in the database and maintained in the GUI tool. The GUI tool only accepts a network path as a drop location (i.e. \\server\share) and will not accept a local path. Our build server also hosts the dropped files, so it seems ...
For some reason the system admin changed my user name from XxXx to XxXx1 in the source control system. Then the problems started. I had to delete all local files and re-download them from source control just to open the project. And after I had rebooted the computer, I can't do much to my files. Whenever I try to undo a checkout I get t...