We're on Team Foundation Server 2008 and I'm trying to find a way to report on the change in completed work from week to week at the task level. The MDX query below works pretty well, but I'd like to get rid of need to hard code last week's date. I've tried using prevmember and parallelperiod without success, but I'm no MDX expert. WIT...
Often times a developer on my team will create a new Visual Studio project and reference a DLL somewhere on their local machine (e.g., C:\mydlls\homersimpson\test.dll). Then, when I get the project from the source control repository, I cannot build the project because I do not have the referenced dll in the exact same location on my mac...
Assume your .NET-based development team is already using the following set of tools in its processes: Subversion / TortoiseSVN / VisualSVN (source control) NUnit (unit testing) An open source Wiki A proprietary bug-tracking system that is paid for You are happy with Subversion and NUnit, but dislike the Wiki and bug-tracking system. ...
Environment: Team Foundation Server 2005 Visual Studio 2008 I have a reasonably large project with several code branches and several subfolders, solutions, etc. below each code branch. In one particular branch, I have a folder with 3 subfolders. One of the folders is marked correctly as "Latest: Yes". However, the other two are marked...
Hi, I am using a solution with many projects in Visual Studio 2005. Unfortunately we are using the testing tools. My problem is that a lot of the time when I open up Test Manager by double clicking on my VSMDI file to do some testing, I get the hourglass for at least 10 minutes while Microsoft's horrible code does god-knows-what, I gues...
Hi I am using VSTS Unitesting platform. I am trying to test a method which got references to assemblies which in turn contain DllImport to C++ DLLs. In order for it to work I need to copy C++ DLLs to reside on the same directory the EXE and DLLs are running. Of course when I use the same code with Unittest I also need to supply those...
I've followed this walkthrough to create a new user in TFS and add it to the Administrator group When I try to connect to my project portal (directly from the tfs computer), it asks for my credentials : if I enter my new user's credentials, IIS says "Access Denied" if I try to log in using the windows Administrator account, it works f...
I have both VS2005 and VS2008 installed on my machine. I was able to install Team Explorer 2008, but could not install Team Explorer 2005 (it kept throwing some error number 2337 which I could not resolve). Currently, I am having to launch the VS2008 IDE for using source control, and VS2005 for working on the source code (as the project...
I have an MSDN subscription and I'm wondering what edition of Visual Studio 2008 to get. I recall reading that Team System has a lot of bonus features like doing high-level system architecture stuff, and specialized things related for doing database work. As a solo dev, I wear many hats including database developer and architect - shou...
We use TFS and are looking at using VSTS Database Edition GDR . I would like to know the best way to structure our projects and wondered if anyone has any experience in this. Let me explain our environment. We have 3 environments, DEV , TST and PROD. Each of these have multiple databases. Currently, we have solution file(s) for eac...
Has anyone successfully installed VS 2008 Team Developer edition on the Windows 7 beta yet? Every time I try, i get an error about insufficient privileges in C:\Windows\Winsxs. I was able to install the VS 2008 Team Database edition with no problems, and had thought that maybe installing the Dev edition after the DB edition might take ...
On occasion, I'll end up checking in a file to our TFS db that I didn't intend to. Reverting to the prior version is quite tedious with my current approach. If there a fast way to revert a file to a prior version in TFS? I'm open to command line, powertool, or UI approaches. ...
I have 2 machines, one at Location A and the other at Location B. The B machine is connected to A's newtwork via VPN. VS2008 Team System is installed on both machines. The A machine has a menu option under Tools > Connect to Team Foundation Server... but the B machine does not have this option. Is there something that I've missed in the...
I have a DBPro (DataDude) project inside my solution to manage and version the database schema of my application. I use TeamCity 4.0 for continuous integration. To be able to build a .dbproj, MSBuild tasks and their respective assemblies have to be installed, other .dbschema and .xsd dependencies put in place. The easiest solution is to...
I currently use VS 2008 Professional, but I'm trying to get Team System Developer Edition working in a Virtual Machine to evaluate it. However, when I try to open any of my current solutions, it gives me the following message: 'Z:\Samples\ChartControl\WebSamples' cannot be opened because its project type () is not supported by this vers...
Any good videos online on how to use Team Foundation Server as your Source Control repository? I need something quick to get me jump started. ...
I need to make changes to files locked by another user who is not accessible any more. How can I unlock the files without having to log in using their account in Visual Studio 2008 TFS? ...
In the default TFS setup there are three work item types: scenario, task and bug. That last one is quite straightforward, and task also: it's a specific job for a team member to complete. But I think scenario is a bit vague. I usually create a scenario for larger and more general units of work: for example "Create functionality to add e...
Visual Studio Team System and Team Foundation Server offers a lot of goodies like source control, unit testing and automatic building. I'm wondering the following: What alternatives are there for .NET developers that has all of this? ...
We have a trunk in TFS that everyone works off until we have a need to branch. Our last project was a large feature that required a branch. Now that the development has been completed and the changes have been merged back into the trunk. What should happen to the development branch? Should I delete it? Mark it as read-only somehow? Wha...