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TFS 2010 - building ClickOnce application

I need to be able to build a ClickOnce application in TFS 2010. It needs to set the ApplicationVersion as well as the MinimumApplicationVersion. In TFS 2008, I was successful in doing the following... <MSBuild Projects="e:\MyAppBuilds\test\trunk\src\MyApp.Automation.Workflow.UI\MyApp.Automation.Workflow.UI.csproj" Properties=...

Can TFS Projects Reference Each Other?

I've recently begun working in an enterprise software environment with hundreds of different applications all confined to their own "silos." One of my tasks is to try to standardize things a bit, and the first attempt will be a standard event logging. Currently, the company's "standard" is "everyone should use Enterprise Library for lo...

Adding Active Directory users to Team Foundation Server

How can I add AD users to TFS users from a computer that can't connect to AD/domain? Structure is like this: TFS Server, in AD/domain My computer, wtih VS.NET, can't join to AD/domain Only way to ad AD users to TFS users list I could find is in VS.NET->Team->Team Foundation Server Settings->Security->Add users or groups->Windows user ...

How to unlock a file from someone else in Team Foundation Server

Hi, We have a project that is stored within our TFS server and some files were Checked-Out by me from another computer and another user (both of which are not used anymore). Is there a way to force the unlocking of the file (no changes were made to it so it's safe to do so if I can only do it). Thanks. ...

Connect to TFS via API behind a Webproxy

Hi, I have to connecto TFS via API which already works fine when i am within my lan. But now i have to connect to a TFS over a webproxy. I am able to connect to the serverstatus.asmx via browser. I already tried to set a environment variable and added the property to app.config - but without success. Now i tried to do the same with a h...

Documents and Reports unavailable for AD account

Documents and Reports are unavailable when I log in with my AD account. I also can't add new team project with my AD account even when its set as TSF administrator, I get TF30224 permission error for the tfsservice account. These all work when I log in TFS server local Administrator account. TFS service runs under domain\account. How c...

TFS2010 Customer access via internet Website

Hi, Wondering if its possible (technically and licensing) to create a website for a Customer to view reports, report bugs, track progress of products we are creating for them (we are using VS2010 and TFS2010). Cheers, Webby. ...

Synchronization of CaliberRM Requirements with TFS 2010

Has any found an easy way to synchronize requirements stored in CaliberRM with requirement work items in TFS 2010? In the past, Borland produced an add-in to CaliberRM to do so. But, the current version only supports TFS 2008 and we were told that there is no plans to support TFS 2010. I think I might have to write my own synchronizer...

Code coverage missing when building .NET 4 apps on Team Build 2008

I'm building VS2010 solutions on a TFS2008 build agent with VS2010 Ultimate installed; code compiles fine, and the tests all run fine, but when it comes to code coverage, nothing is being reported. I've checked that the .testsettings file has Code Coverage enabled and that I have selected some assemblies to instrument, and if I run the t...

How do I set the "Version control path to custom assemblies" for custom MSBuild tasks

With TFS 2010 build controllers/agents there is the option to set a version control path to custom assemblies that will be available on all build agents. The documentation states that this works for custom workflow activities as well as custom MSBuild tasks (about in the middle of the page): http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee330...

How do you promote a culture of peer code review with your team?

We have tried many methods such as Code review required before check-in (hard to enforce) Monthly code review sessions (tend to side-track, time consuming, too high level) One or two devs with free cycles review changesets as they are added (low participation) We use TFS and could write a tool to leverage the API or build a workflow ...

Eclipse Source Control Plugin for Team Foundation Server 2008

My team has been adopting TFS 2008 for our team development and we are continuously and steadily learning to work with it. However, we got a project which has to be done in Java and would like the source control to be done in TFS 2008. We are therefore looking for an Eclipse plugin that can allow us achieve this. I have found on the Int...

Is Team Foundation Server the right solution to automatically publish .net website to remote server?

We currently build our .net website in C# in Visual Studio 2010 Pro on our dev server, then manually publish it and upload to the live server where it is copied over the current files to go live. We want to automate this process as much as possible and if possible push it at a certain time, such as every day at midnight. We don't curren...

Best Agile template for TFS 2010?

Hi Guys, I've just installed TFS 2010, and would like to use TFS in the most Agile way. I've seen http://scrumforteamsystem.com, are they're any other good templates you can suggest? Cheers, Ash. ...

TFS Power Tools 2008 Powershell Snapin won't run in on 64-bit in Windows 2008 R2

I've installed TFS Power Tools 2008 along with its PowerShell integration features on my Windows 2008 R2 developer machine. When I try to run the following command to enable the snapin: Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.TeamFoundation.PowerShell in the 32-bit version of PowerShell.exe, under C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershel...

TFS & Codeplex at the same time (source control)....

Anyone an approach to this? We have a commercial / inhouse project. SOME of the libraries are also dual available under LGPL on Codeplex. Not all source codde is supposed to go up there (not every checkin), but I would like to have regular uploads happening, preferably for "regular releases" / official releases. This will be triggered l...

Trying to run corflags from TFS Build 2010

I am using an InvokeProcess activity in TFS 2010 to try and run the corflags application on a built exe. C:\Builds\4\testing\Sources\BuildAssets\corflags.exe C:\Builds\4\testing\Binaries\Executable.exe /32bit+ However I am getting the following message: corflags : error CF001 : Could not open file for writing I am running the TF...

What are the asterisks for in the output of tf merge

tf merge /recursive /candidate $/foo/ExUI $/bar/ExUI Changeset Author Date --------- -------------------------------- ---------- 23438 Fred_Bloggs 04/05/2010 23609 Jimmy_jones 11/05/2010 23943* John_doe 25/05/2010 Can anyone explain w...

Add an attachment via the SDK to a work item without using a physical file

I'm looking at creating new work items for TFS 2010 via the client SDK. In the SDK you can do something like this: WorkItem item = ...; item.Attachments.Add(new Attachment("c:\\path\\on\\tfs\\server\\shot.png", "Screen shot")); item.Save(); But this requires the file being attached to be placed on either a network accessible path, or...

Adding items to a global list in TFS via the SDK

I wish to add or list items from a global list in TFS 2010 via the TFS SDK. I have discovered the following methods: XmlDocument WorkItemStore.ExportGlobalLists() void WorkItemStore.ImportGlobalLists(XmlElement listsElement); void WorkItemStore.ImportGlobalLists(string lists); Which appear to export/import all the global lists as a ...