Hi, I'm using Visual Studio Team System 2008 and I want to be able to have the 'Reason' field always enabled for work items. Currently, the 'Reason' drop down is only enabled when changing the 'State'. Once you perform a 'Save' the 'Reason' drop down becomes disabled. I've tried doing this by modifying the process template, but it can...
Hi, I'm getting a weird error occassionally in VS2008. A colleague gets a similar error, we both noticed it after installing TFS PowerToys so I'm wondering if it's related. Anyway the error is: Team Foundation Error Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID{GUIID...} failed due to the following error: 80040154, Any he...
Hi, First time using team explorer, and I want to add a build task that will run a command line tool to obfuscate the assembly. This will one of the last tasks to be performed I assume. How would I go about doing this using Team Explorer? ...
We currently have a local TF Server here in our company, and we are about to make a subset of our projects open source (via Codeplex), but we are having problems mixing two Team Foundation Servers in the same solution. Looks like Visual Studio can't be connected to many TF Servers at the same time. What's the best way to deal with that? ...
Hi, We are slowly rolling out team foundation, and I have to get up to speed on setting up a Build process on TFS. What are some good starting points TFS builds? From what it seems, there is no GUI for TFS build right? It is just about learning MSBuild? ...
Is it possible to go back and tie work items to code that's already been checked into TFS? For example . . . A developer picks the wrong work item, or forgets to pick a work item? I can see work item details for ChangeSets, but the work item page is read-only. ...
What would be the best method of automatically generating a Release Notes text file from a Team Foundation Server 2008 nightly build? ...
Hi Can you recommend any tool to migrate sources(with history) from TFS to SVN? ...
Ok, so I keep seeing how VS2008 has this nice unit test display and I can see people running NUnit tests within it on Dimecasts.net and this article seems to imply that MbUnit v3 should have support for using visual studio's test runner. And yet I can't get it to recognize my tests. Has anyone else been able to get Visual Studio to run...
Hi folks, is it possible to hide/block files/folders in a VS2008 solution from various users (by their NTDomainName) if the solution is under TFS? I have some files and a folder that contains secret info (eg. release.web.config, etc) which i need as part of our RELEASE builds, but i do not want some new contractors to be able to see/ge...
I have a vs 2008 solution and I would like to include a real folder in the solution, but not at the project level, instead at the solution level. I noticed you can right click the solution and add a solution folder, but it comes up as some white folder, and I have my doubts as to exactly what it is supposed to be... basically on the f...
I have been working on standardizing the source control structure for our Team Foundation Server rollout for the new year. I have started by using the Microsoft Team Foundation Server Branching Guidance documentation available on CodePlex. I was hoping to get some feedback and answers to a few of the specific questions I have about the...
I've modified the Agile task template in TFS to include a new 'In Progress' state. When work is started on an item the 'assigned user' will set the task from 'Active' to 'In Progress'. This helps me to know which tasks have been started. I was, however, thinking that I might be able to use this new state to figure out how long things ...
We're on Team Foundation Server 2008 and I'm trying to find a way to report on the change in completed work from week to week at the task level. The MDX query below works pretty well, but I'd like to get rid of need to hard code last week's date. I've tried using prevmember and parallelperiod without success, but I'm no MDX expert. WIT...
I have project solutions developed in VS2005. It is bound to TFS. I want to convert the solution to VS2008 version, keeping the binding as is. But it is giving error while converting err msg: Solution file "C:\abc\abc.sln" cannot be converted because it cannot be modified. To convert the solution, change the permissions on the solution f...
Background: We are using VS 2008 and are in the process of upgrading from TFS 2005 to 2008. We have a solution that contains several projects and overall have hundreds of code files. We want to add the same text as a comment to all of these files (a copyright message). Does anyone know of a quick/easy/efficient way to do this? Also, ...
I host a project on CodePlex, but a bunch (200+) files need to have their extension changed. What is the easiest, least painful way to do this? I cant see myself doing them one by one in the IDE. Update: I know I can just remove and change them via the commandline/utility, and readd them, but that would lose history. Perhaps there ...
I've followed this walkthrough to create a new user in TFS and add it to the Administrator group When I try to connect to my project portal (directly from the tfs computer), it asks for my credentials : if I enter my new user's credentials, IIS says "Access Denied" if I try to log in using the windows Administrator account, it works f...
I have a set of work items that are completed and I am ready to move their changes to our production branch. Is it possible to find the changesets that are attached to them and selectively merge them with the target branch? ...
Our small development shop is looking to migrate our projects from VSS to TFS, and we're evaluating TFS vs. others (haven't pulled the trigger quite yet). The nature of our software shop is such that we have 100+ projects in VSS ranging from small one-man-show projects to massive enterprise-wide applications. We are trying to determine...