visual-studio-team-system

Installing multiple versions of Visual Studio Team Editions on the same machine

Does anyone have any experience with installing multiple versions of Team edition on the same machine? For example Team Developer and Team Architect at the same time? Is this possible? Do you have to open one version vs the other? Or do you end up with one installation with all the versions installed on top of each other. ...

Hide disabled builds in Visual Studio Team Explorer

Is it possible to hide disabled builds in Team Explorer in Visual Studio? I don't want to see these anymore. ...

Visual Studio 2008 and 2005 accessing TFS 2008 source control?

We have a TFS 2008 server that we are using for source control having migrated away from VSS :D This is great for all our web projects as they can all be migrated to VS2008. My problem is that VS2008 doesn't support development of SQL2005 SSIS packages. It is possible to check SSIS packages into TFS2008 from VS2005? Would this confl...

Extend Visual Studio Team System 2010 SSC

I'm looking to extend the source control of Visual Studio 2010 Team System. I need to halt the check-in process and pop-up a little GUI to do some things. I've found this; http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms182075%28VS.100%29.aspx, does anybody have any good tutorials or similar lying around i'd appreciate it. ...

Web Deployment Project Team Build Error

Visual Studio 2008 Web Deployment Project Team Build ASPPARSE Error I seem to have a common problem; one that is showing up but does not have a clear solution. I have a Visual Studio 2008 project structure that contains several projects that are class libraries, a web application project, and a recently added web deployment project. I...

Cannot save database project: *.dbp file in Visual Studio

I have a database project (.dbp) open in Visual Studio 2008 as part of a solution. I've added a new sql script to the project. When I try to save the database project so that I can check it in, VS shows me a dialog: Some Unicode characters in this file could not be saved. To save all the information in this file, use 'Save As'; and ...

Shared "SQL Server 2005 Server Project" in Visual Studio 2008 Database Edition GDR 2

Hi after toying around with SQL Server 2005 Database projects, I have been pointed to the Visual Studio 2008 Database Edition GDR 2 extension (by our Microsoft rep), which allows for the creation of "SQL Server 2005 Server Project" projects. As far as I understand it, this lets you create a project with all the shared objects (logins b...

How to determine which Process Template in VS2010 to use?

I am curious as to which Process Template in Visual Studio's Team Foundation Server people tend to use and why. I am a Solo Developer in a .Net shop that makes in-house apps only. I make all kinds of applications for our company. Many are critical and used daily by a majority of our 300 employee's. These app's will be around for awhi...

Creating a Data Generation Plan that Includes Correct Lookup Table Values

I'm just getting started with Visual Studio Database projects and loving the data generation plans I can create with it. However, in one of my projects I need to populate a lookup table with specific values. Since a foreign-key relationship exists between the lookup table and another table, I can't remove the lookup table from the data g...

What is Visual Studio GDR R2, and do I still need the Power Tools?

I am working on quite a large DB based project and I like the look of a few of the power tools. Looking through the related downloads, I found out about GDR R2, I cannot find out that much information about it - Not even sure what GDR stands for, but one thing that caught my eye - "this release incorporates many previously released Pow...

WorkItemLinkFilters - FilterOn does not work?!

Hey, I've a question about the Link Filters of a Link Control in Team System. I want a list in which I only see workitem "xyz" with the link "links to" (<- reversename, forwardname: linked by). Here is a sample of what I try: <WorkItemLinkFilters FilterType="include"> <Filter LinkType="Unsere.LinkTypes.Links" FilterOn="reversename" ...

Migrate to Team Foundation Server

Hi Everyone, We've got a new server with TFS installed. The current environment is very usual, source code managed with SourceSafe 2005 and integrated with Visual Studio 2008 Enterprise Edition. The QA team is using Bugzilla to report the bugs. First of all some basic questions: How can I move my project to TFS along with the databas...

Migrate your data from VSS Server to Team Foundation Server

Hello Everyone, Yesterday, I asked a question Migrate to TFS and the answer mentioned some very good tools which can be very helpful. Thanks to jwanagel. But I forgot to mention there the VSS server and TFS server are two different machines. And when you've both on different location it seems you would have to take a ...

Say hello to "TFS". How to migrate from oldes and be "more" agile ?

Hello Everyone, We've planned to move from Visual SourceSafe to TFS. For this purpose, we brought a new server machine with updated specs and TFS installed. The Visual SourceSafe machine still has its use in the environment as the TFS machine dedicated for a single project. All the projects are there in Visual SourceSafe machine and ar...

VSTS Database Edition - Intellisense for creating tables etc?

Hi There, Just begin starting to use Visual Studio 2008 database edition and loving it.... but there doesn't seem to be any intellisense inside create table for example .. in the editor ... and it also appears you can't add a table graphically like you can in SSMS ... Is this true, any tricks of ways round it or plugins or something,...

Is it possible to access files stored in TFS’s source control from the TFSBuild.proj file before the “Get” build task?

I’m using a few custom MSBuild tasks that are checked into source control. I would like to import these tasks into my TFSBuild.proj file that TFS uses to build the project. Right now I have created a 2nd project file that includes all of the uses of these custom tasks. I do this because I can run this project file after the workspace has...

Configuring Team System Code Analysis via a FxCop rules file

Is there anyway to configure the code analysis rules in Visual Studio Team System to match those in an FxCop configuration file and keep them in sync automatically? Not all the developers on the team have TS so keeping the rules we are currently running in an FxCop file is required so everyone can run the same set, but it would nice for...

No link to the test results in the Build Results reports in TFS 2008

Is there a way to display the test results on the build results page returned by Build.aspx page? Because right now you only get to see the total number of tests and the number of failed and passed tests as in the sample: Result details for Any CPU/Debug 0 errors, 90 warnings, 12 tests total, 4 tests passed, 8 tests failed Errors and ...

Team Foundation Server 2008 managing Sql Server 2005 & 2008 database changes

Does anybody have any recommendations for managing database changes with Team System 2008 and Team Foundation Server 2008? I am a developer for my company and was hoping to achieve source control over the database stored procedures, triggers, tables etc... with TFS 2008. We are currently using TFS 2008 to manage our source code for o...

C# abstract Dispose method

I have an abstract class that implements IDisposable, like so: public abstract class ConnectionAccessor : IDisposable { public abstract void Dispose(); } In Visual Studio 2008 Team System, I ran Code Analysis on my project and one of the warnings that came up was the following: Microsoft.Design : Modify 'ConnectionAccessor.Dis...