I need to have daily build for non - .net applciation. I am using TFS source control . I want to learn how can I do that. I dont have any idea on build generation and MS build ? What I need to learn before I can schedule daily builds.. ...
I had added some suggested values to a field in a Work item, But now when i try to update the value, changes are not reflected. If I delete the suggested values , then as expected it is not suggesting anything.But when I reenter the same values again. It is going back to old value and changes are not reflected. Basically , I added a...
So I discovered that TFS 2010 doesn't support authentication for alerts. I read online that a work-around would be to create an smtp relay on my TFS server. I did that but I'm not quite sure if I've configured it correctly. Can anyone tell me how I can verify the configuration? ...
I have installed Team Foundation Server 2010 (basic configuration) on a Windows Server 2003 without any problems. But when I go to administer the Team Foundation Server Administration Console, I get the error when in the press "Administer Security" or "Group Membership" Server was Unable to process request. ---> Team Foundation services...
Hello , Can I import the changes b/w the local version and the checkin version of the code.I am using TFS 2010.The reason I am asking this question is that ,I want send my code to an external reviewer who will not have access to TFS source control . My current thinking is that if can I some import the changes then reviewer can review ...
Hello! I want to use a custom field I have created in the Task work item in the "MSF for Agile Software Development v5.0" template in the built in reports for this template. I know how to open and edit a report from the template, but I don't know how to find the field I have created. ...
Hi All, I have migrated visual studio and TFS from 2008 to 2010. All the code is working perfectly. The only problem I am facing is related to build. To be precise for 'Build Defaults' property of builds. Along with migration we have also migrated server. In build definition its showing old Build controller and I am not able to chang...
I need to build a specific changeset on TFS, but the "Query new build" dialog let me choose only "Latest sources" or shelveset... Running TFS 2010. ...
Before I spend too much time trying to make this work, I would like to know if it's even possible. I can build the projects fine using TFS. I can also publish directly from Visual Studio without issue. But when trying to publish via TFS, it is trying to use the following url: https://dev.server.com:8172/msdeploy.axd?site=dev.server.c...
I had to create a work item template.In order to do it quickly.I created all the fields by opening the template in notepad and copy pasting them with differnent name but same datatype. Then I import the template. Now I am trying to change the datatype form Open Wit from Server option , it is throwing me errors that datatype do not matc...
We have installed TFS 2010 with success but wonder how to set the users permissions. We are small projects with five developers, a manager and a secretary. Each developer is working itself with one or more projects, we have no cooperation between any projects. We want everyone to be able to see all the code for each project, but that onl...
Hello, I am using Team foundation system and I have requirement in which I want to copy all the checkout files to a local folder along with the same folder structure using C#. How can I do that? Huzaifa ...
I built a custom build processes template based on the DefaultTemplate.xaml and added a few parameters. They show up fine on the Build definition window but I can not find a way to have them be displayed on the parameters tab of the Queue New Build Dialog. I am hoping that this is possible, I would rather not need to define a separate b...
I want to publish nightly builds + source code of a specific project on a tfs 2010 server (local network, inside the firewall) to a (local network, in the dmz) ftp server. Build Get latest version Zip build and code Copy to ftp server Copying the files can use ftp protocol or copy to network share. Can I do this easily with team-b...
It seems that when TFS does a build, when it creates the build directory and pulls the files down from source, it is marking all the source files as read only. This is causing a problem with a BizTalk solution that we have, it looks like at build time biztalk generates/edits a cs class for mapping files, and this is the same type of file...
I'm trying to find up to date info on commuicating with TFS 2010 (now also refered to Microsoft ALM 2010, I believe). This previous post 192579 from a Microsoft TFS team member states : The web services are not documented by Microsoft as it is not an officially supported route to talk to TFS. The officially supported route is to use the...
Occasionally I get an error from my builds with the following error message: [Large File Name]: Unable to read data from the transport connection: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host. One or more errors occurred while performing a Get operation. Everytime this happens, the file is always over 1MB in s...
I am unable to bring a project collection on line due to a fault in the SQL database The server has multiple Project collections that have been imported from TFS2008. These project collections contained duplicate projects as they had been imported from the same server but the source code belonged to different parts of the business, the...
Is it possible to connect to 2010 TFS from Visual Studio 2008 Professional There is an update VS90SP1-KB974558-x86.exe that is targeting VS2008 client, but that update did not recognize Professional version of VS2008. Although TFS2010 is part of professional MSDN subscription ...
So I have recently moved my email to google apps and now require smtp authentication to send email from TFS. Lo and behold: TFS doesn't support this feature. As a workaround I tried setting up an SMTP relay on my TFS server but couldn't get it to work. I figured instead I'd create a TFS event handler which could react to the event whi...