tfs2008

TFS 2008 connection via internet

Hi everbody, I install an TFS 2008 on Server 2008 machine. TFS is working very well in localusers but We can not reach our projects via internet. Developers who are outside the office could not reach TFS. How can I handle this?? ...

TFS Project is visible in the Source control explorer but not in Team Explorer?

I'm able to view the project 1.from the Source Control Explorer but not in Team explorer,Only if i have open the local project which is binded to TFS Only then i can view the other folders within in TFS Project. 2.From Tfs command Line Utility 3.Suppose there are no workspaces and no projects downloaded from TFS then only way to view the...

Using Team Foundation Server with limited Windows user accounts

I'm gonna add new users to Windows solely for the purpose of being used for TFS. These accounts will be as limited as they can. The question is will this be a problem for TFS? I mean will this limited Windows accounts prevent users to do certain things? ...

Backup Database and push to TFS server

Is that a way that i can schedule to run a SQL agent job to generate the database schema and data script file and then check in to the Team Foundation Server? ...

Controlling check-out check-in

How do you set up either the check-out or check-in rules so that all users can add/remove files in the solution, but keep a single check-out on code files? ...

TFS reports on daily basis

My team is using TFS 2008 and Conchango template for Scrum. We use the Sprint burndown chart, sprint view and sprint task board reports to track the status of tasks on daily basis. The burndown chart and sprint view are also shown on a LCD TV screen. These reports are manualy exported daily as PDF files. Is there any utility which can ...

Query TFS for permissions

Is there a way to list which users and AD groups have permissions to a folder and all sub folders in a TFS project? EDIT: We are using TFS 2008 ...

TFS and MSBuild: how to get latest changeset version.

I am attempting to get the latest changeset version in a TFS MSBuild. I have tried a number of solutions, and have referenced http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1630823/tfs-and-msbuild-version-number-with-last-changeset without the desired result. Any other ideas? Some blog entries/examples suggest using 'tf changeset /latest /i msbu...

Team Foundation Server Build Failure "the semaphore timeout period has expired"

I have serveral build tasks set up in TFS 2008. Intermittently (and constantly at present) the builds fail with the message: TF209011: Could not create drop location \server\share\BuildName_20100729.6: The semaphore timeout period has expired. Both the TFS and drop location server are VMs, not sure if this is likely to be part of the i...

Rhino Mocks 3.5 failing in TFS integration build while running test lists

Build server: TFS 2008, W2003 Error message: System.IO.FileLoadException: Could not load file or assembly 'Rhino.Mocks, Version=3.5.0.1337, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=0b3305902db7183f' or one of its dependencies. Access is denied.. This happens only aprox. last 2 weeks. Same tests were successful before and still are when runn...

Allow application user to submit bugs to TFS 2008.

I'm currently trying to find out if there is a way to allow our nightly build application users to submit bug items to TFS. Everything is developed and used within our private network so there aren't any security issues of that nature that I am aware of. I don't necessarily need them to be able to assign the bug specifics, but give a t...

Best practice to share projects between solution trees (MSVS 2008 & MSVS 2010)

We have 50+ projects divided into 2 solution trees managed by TFS (Version: Visual Studio 2008 / TFS RTM (9.0.21022.8)). 30+ projects are Visual Studio 2008 projects and others are Visual Studio 2010 New projects use some older assemblies via references to binaries. During developing new projects we have to make changes into older a...

Release code to production best practices

in my current job we have a very complicated process to pass stuff to production to production (we use TFS, and a lot of tiny apps to generate labels, store the store procedures code, etc) but it's necesary have some controls because we be ruled by SOX, so, what could be a good aproach to have a simple and clean source control (and a ve...

How to find a TFS alert not set up by you

Someone has 'helpfully' set up a TFS 2008 Alert for a build on my behalf. I want to turn it off but no one will own up and I can't find it. Reading the docs suggests only the creator can see it. Is there anyway to find it? ...

Disable warning that solution is not under source control?

Shamefully, we use TFS at work for a C# project. I wish we could move to svn or git, but we can't change that. All of us working on the project hate the automatic check-out "feature" of TFS, so we checked in our solution and project files as unbound from TFS. Now, whenever we open the project, we get the following message: The sol...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

TFS: Getting changesets between specific builds.

I am trying to get all of the work items between two builds. The only wasy i can see this working is to get the start and end changesets and get the work item for each. The problem i am having is getting from the build number to the set of changesets. I have tried using the get associated changesets but this doesn't work as it only get t...