Environment: I am administrator of a project in TFS 2010, but don't have any administrative rights for the project collection. Is there an easy way that I can set up access rights for a group of users so that they can: Create/update "Bug" work items only View all other work items Execute work item "Team Queries" and create their own q...
I can execute a query via the TFS 2010 API like say: string wiql = @"SELECT [System.ID], [System.Title] FROM workitems order by [System.ID] asc"; WorkItemCollection items = project.Store.Query(wiql); foreach (WorkItem item in items) { ///... do stuff } To return all the work items - but it appears there is no way to control...
I'm new to Microsoft TFS and it seems like the default of TFS is connect via a Local Area Network (LAN). Another team member lives in a different part of the world. How can I allow him to connect to my TFS Server, which is installed on a Vista Machine so we can share the same project? ...
I created a local group user which I added to TFS Contributor/Valid User groups. Anytime if I needed to add a user as contributor, I would add him/her to the local group and the person has the access to TFS; which is until now. Recently a new person got hired and MIS setup the domain account for him. I added him the same way but for some...
Hi everyone, Just familiarizing myself with TFS 2010, especially Team Build which now uses Windows Workflow. Have been setting up some custom workflows etc to get used to it and so far so good. My question is about this blogpost: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jpricket/archive/2009/12/23/tfs-2010-custom-process-parameters-part-2-metadata.aspx...
Hi, Basically, Me and my team are working in the geographically dispersed location,My teammate is is in USA and I'm in India.I've Installed the TFS on my development machine (Windows Vista) and I want to my team to access the same exact project which i'm working on anytime,anywhere.We dont have any funds to buy a hosting account or We do...
I have 3 computers at home. 2 laptops and 1 desktop. The 2 laptops are 32 bit. The desktop is a 64 bit. My desktop is considerably new and fast and so that is my developer PC at home. my laptops are ok, but not as fast so I use them for mundane tasks such as mails, messenger, twitter, etc. Now I want to install TFS on Windows Server 20...
We are a small group of six developers who currently use Visual Studio 2003 and Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (HVAC). Everyone has the responsibility for its program was not sharing code with each other. Everyone has responsibility for its own version handling, the codes is not in a common version handling. We will now update to Visual St...
Is it possible to install Team Foundation Server 2010 on 2003 windows server with SharePoint 3.0 installed Is there are any conflicts on IIS site Thank you. ...
I used the TFS 2010 Power Tools to create a custom field for a Task. The custom field shows nicely inside Visual Studio 2010 on my machine and a coworkers machine. However, when I go to Team Web Access in my browser, the new field does not appear in the form. I can change the value of my custom field using VS 2010. The "Field Changes"...
I wanted to know if there is any place I can look for and find out whats the intended purpose of TFS work item type 'Issue'? TFS 2010 says Issue work item type Tracks an obstacle to progress. Has any one used this work item type in TFS and if yes for what purpose? ...
I have some answers! Feel free to contribute your own findings. As far as I know, there are 3 main ways to retrieve a simple list of Team Projects from TFS: Using the new Catalog service (TFS 2010) Using the VersionControlServer (TFS 2008/2010) Using the ICommonStructureService (TFS 2008/2010) The simple tests I conducted compared t...
With a Windows 2008 Server, that is the Build Server (TFS 2010), that has 2 Build Agents, how do you configure these agents that use the same account, to use multiple workspaces ( or to stop it from using multiple workspaces) with the same paths? Currently, the behavior i am seeing is IT is creating multiple workspaces, with the same u...
I am trying to build a ASP.NET MVC 2 project that uses Lucene.Net. I make a standard build definition in TFS 2010. When I queue a new build, it fails on this error: CSC: Error generating XML documentation file 'xxx\xxx\Lucene.Net.xml' ('Access is denied. ') But in my project properties for Lucene, I don't have xml comments checked. How...
We just moved to TFS 2010 and we would like to use a tool for code review. We are looking at Team Review (http://teamreview.codeplex.com/) from codeplex. Do any of you guys recommend any tool that can perform code review for TFS 2010? Management is open to use opensource tools but is willing to allocate budget if the tool is well worth t...
I am a lone developer, and I am now using TFS 2010, having until recently used VSS. I have not found it easy to get any books for beginners to help me use this. So I have now got my project in source control. But when I check in I get references to a number of files that I no longer use. How do I remove files from the TFS Source Control ...
We are trying to add a VB.NET 2010 solution to a Team Foundation Server 2010. When we right-click the solution and select "Add Solution to Source Controll..." it pops-up a message "The file 'sample.vb' cannot be added to the source countrol because the item has no source control mapping. If you choose one of the Ignore options the operat...
Hi, I want to change the content of a file every time build is done. And we have automated build process, so manually we cant checkout the file, do modifications in file and check-in. So can anyone please help me in how to automatically checkout the file, do changes in file and then checkin back the file. Thanks ...
Does anybody knows if the TFS 2010 Warehouse database (the one supposed to be used for reporting) keeps any information about the checkin comments for a changeset? I can see the information via the TFS Explorer, like this But if I try to extract the same information from the Warehouse database, also selecting every data from the chan...
After successfully (?) installing TFS 2010 (basic configuration), when I click Administer Security on the Application Tier page on the Team Foundation Server Administration Console to add users, I get the following error message: Server was unable to process request. ---> Team Foundation services are not available from the server. Techn...