I've seen the post about disabling work item creation on all failed builds, but I'd like to have TFS only create a work item on the first failure. We have a very complicated legacy system that involves VB6 COM components and frequently have build failures on the build server that track back to some funkiness VB6 does with binary files (...
When you buy TFS 2008, you get a license to run SQL Server 2005 as the data repository for TFS. With SP1 of TFS 2008, SQL Server 2008 is now supported. Does any one know if the TFS 2008 license allows us to install SQL Server 2008 instead of SQL Server 2005? Are there any advantages using SQL Server 2008 over SQl Server 2005 as the dat...
Let's say that the company has a large number of separate small to medium applications which can be logically divided into a small number of groups. For example, I can have BMW, Mazda, Honda, Ford .... , Kawasaki, Harley, .... altogether a few dozens or even hundreds of applications. I think I have 2 options in TFS: Create a separate...
We recently moved our source control from 2005 to 2008 and the web projects builds have stopped copying the resource dlls for referenced (project reference) resx files into the bin folder (they remain at the same level as _publishedWebsites). I cannot see anything different in the build (It is still set to Mixed Platforms) but at the _Co...
I'm following instructions on how to create a new build type in TFS, and it says to: In team explorer, select the project you want to create a new build type on the build menu, select new team build type My build menu doesn't have that option, it has: Queue new build New build definition Manage build agents, and Manage build quali...
Whenever a web request is made by Visual Studio to TFS, Fiddler will show a 401 Unauthorized error. Visual Studio will then try again with a proper Authorization Negotiate header in place with which TFS will respond with the proper data and a 200 status code. How can I get the correct headers to be sent the first time to stop the 401? ...
I'm noticing some solutions in Team Foundation Server 2008 won't build completely. As in, some number of the projects in the solution succeed but then one fails. The particular failing project says I’m missing an assembly reference. But I'm not - the project has the reference. It builds fine on my PC. I'm looking at the .csproj file that...
We're using Visual Studio 2008/TFS 2008. We have a small team of developers and for some reason, periodically, when any of us "Get Latest," one of our paths remaps to a different path on it's own. This causes the "Get Latest" to start deleting files, because the path has changed. It's the same path every time that gets remapped to the w...
Hi All, I'm having some strange problems copying files in a custom script in TFS2008 without SP1, I have to run the build several times to get the files copied (most of the times its in the second build that i get the files), let me give you the details: This is happening with ASP sites and VS2003 Web solutions, (vs2008 solutions are O...
I have the following scenario: A user shelves some changes. Time goes by and a new branch of the product is created. Later, it is determined that the shelveset contains code, that we will need in the new branch. By default; Visual Studio can only restore the shelveset changes to the location where they were shelved from. Is it possible...
I have one workspace A with files checked out on computer A. Now I want to continue development on computer B. I copy the files from computer A and creates a new workspace B with mapping to the copied files. Now Visual Studio wont allow me to check in the files since they are already checked out in workspace A. How can I resolve this w...
Is there a chance to delete Work Item from TFS, or all I can do is just to rename it. Update: This question was for TFS 2008. New version (2010) have out of the box solution as Rob Cannon suggested ...
A 3rd party has developed some applications for us and has been using MS Team Foundation Server 2008 for their source control. My company has recently setup our TFS 2008 environment and we're trying to migrate the source code from the 3rd party developer TFS to our TFS machine. You first thought was to try the backup and restore method o...
Any ideas what the problem could be? Some facts: -The direct report link works(i can surf to http://theserver/Reports/Pages/Folder.aspx?ItemPath=/someSite ) -I have enough rights -It has worked and suddenly it stopped working -I can open source control -I am directly connected over a local lan with the tfs server -My colleages do ...
I installed WSS 3.0 and pointed my TFS2005SP1 installation at it. I am planning my TFS 2008 upgrade. Everything I've read mentions migrating to WSS3.0 after the TFS upgrade. Are there any gotchas I need to be aware of related to the WSS upgrade already having been performed? ...
This is my first at doing any sort of builds period. Unfortunately we're using TFS 2008 (I like Subversion better overall in its use because it is just as powerful and simpler to use as most good developers are quite aware of). But anyway, how can you test a build when you only have a dev server and no staging server? I want to test t...
I can't seem to find an easy way of doing this. We have a trunk, which has a particular set of Changesets checked into a Work Item in TFS. I want to exclusively merge the changesets in this Work Item into another branch. Surely this can't be difficult? ...
I'm using Team Foundation Server 2008 (SP 1) and I need to move multiple files from one folder to another (to retain file history). In addition to Team Explorer (with SP 1) I've also got the latest TFS Power Tools (October 2008) installed (for Windows Shell integration). Now, the problem is that I can't seem to select and move multiple...
We recently moved to Team Foundation Server 2008 from Source Safe. We are setting up some automated builds and have run into some issues with the publish of click once apps that seem to require additional installs on the build server. I've seen posts that indicate that the Visual Studio IDE needs to be installed. I've also seen posts t...
We have a process where when the developers change or add a database script and check it into the project. At the time of deployment the release manager needs to know what work items have database script checked in against it. Is there a way where we can query or create a custom report in TFS to get a list of work items that have a file ...