visual-studio-team-system

Web Deployment Projects, Team Suite 2008

I get the following when I build locally Granting IIS read access to the folder 'C:\Projects\YourClubMatters\Trunk\YCM\WebSite_deploy\Release'. C:\Program Files\MSBuild\Microsoft\WebDeployment\v9.0\Microsoft.WebDeployment.targets(676,5): error : Some or all identity references could not be translated. Warning: Unable to grant IIS acce...

Does AssemblyCleanup have a time limit

Do methods marked with the AssemblyCleanup attribute have a maximum time limit? We have a method that does a bunch of database deletes for the test data that has been added during the test run, and we don't see that this method is given time to complete fully. (We are using Visual Studio 2008 Team System.) ...

How can I migrate TFS source from one team project to another?

We've decided to go with a different template for our team project and want to move all of source under that team project. We are not concerned with migrating work items, but we would like to keep the version history of the source files, if possible. I tried the TFS to TFS migration tool on code plex and it seems to only move the most re...

Does the free Team Explorer client work without Visual Studio

We are about to setup a cruise control.net with and NAnt and TFS, do I need visual studio 2005/2008 with team explorer installed or can I make this work with just the free Team explorer client ...

Missing templates after re-installing VS 2008

I installed VS 2008 and I installed .NET 3.5 SP1 and I got all templates. Then, I had to uninstall VS 2008 (please don't ask why) without uninstalling .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 or anything else. After that, I re-installed VS 2008 back, then I open up VS 2008 and found that when I add a new item the Entity Framework template is not among t...

NUnit vs Team System Unit Test

Which do you prefer? What are the advantages and disadvantages of each for Unit Testing? EDIT: I will admit that Team System offers a lot more than just Unit Testing, such as performance and load testing of applications and databases. This question was centering around writing unit tests and which do you prefer. ...

Migrating / Upgrading NUnit to Team system

We are working on a C# windows application that is being upgraded from .Net 1.1 to 3.5. The application uses NUnit for automated testing and we are in turn changing this to Team System 2008. It seems to me that NUnit uses similar attributes and code for assertion? What is the best way to upgrade / migrate this code and are their any pr...

Visual Studo Asp.net Website Compilation error: Child nodes not allowed

"Child nodes not allowed" seems to be notorious compilation error on Asp.net website if you do some googling. Environment: WinXp, VS2008 and VS2008 SP1, .NET 3.5 SP1 Behavior: create a brand new Asp.net website (not web application), then just build it, you got compilation error "Child nodes not allowed" on the Web.config on line where...

How to set default encoding of source file to UTF-8 in VS.NET 2005

I use Chinese in my comments and configs. And after I auto merge and check in source files, they become messy codes. I guess the reason is TFS merge them by UTF-8 encoding but my VS.NET is using gb2312 encoding. I know I can get and change each file from menu [file->advance save option] Can't I set VS.NET 2005 always create and save C# ...

Migrating from NUnit to Team System error in Enterprise library configuration

I get this error from my migration of NUnit to Team System when running some of the tests in Visual Studio: Test method XXX.XXX.Data.Tests.Path.Method> threw exception:  System.Configuration.ConfigurationException: Invalid section name. The section 'dataConfiguration' does not exist in the requested configuration file 'C:...

Visual Studio - Programmatically configure solution for source control.

Hey all, I am in the process of creating a Wizard to help my organization auto create a base project for all applications. The idea is that a programmer can enter a project name, a few other basics and the process will create some projects, add other project from source control, configure IIS, etc... A lot of the work is done by simpl...

Problems building VS database project on TFS build server

I have two Visual Studio database projects. Both build fine on my local dev environment. On the TFS build server, with a TFS build solution containing both projcets, one builds fine and the other fails with this error: Task "SqlBuildTask" Creating a model to represent the project... C:\Program Files\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v9.0...

How do I merge a Work Item from 1 branch to another in TFS 2008

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? ...

Is there a tool for emailing Shelveset's and History items from within Visual Studio Team System?

We are using Team Foundation Server for our source control system in Visual Studio. Although we don't do a lot of pair programming, we do have all of our code changes peer reviewed in a process like this: write code shelve the code or check it in (if it's low risk) send an email to a team member with the shelveset name or changeset nu...

Does Visual Studio need to be installed on the TFS build server?

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...

build ASP.Net default web site error

Hello everyone, I am using VSTS 2008 and I am using Create new ASP.Net web site and using default settings/automatically generated files. My questions are, How to use command line script (msbuild) to build the ASP.Net web site automatically? I want to build the web site into a DLL which could be easily copied to target IIS server lat...

Integrate Silverlight Unit Testing with Visual Studio 2008 Test Results Panel?

I would like to run my Silverlight Unit Tests from Visual Studio instead of opening a new instance of my Silverlight Test App in the browser. Apparently it is possible (http://www.jeff.wilcox.name/2008/09/rc0-new-test-features/ - search for "Visual Studio Team Test log provider output")....but I don't understand how you enable this, doe...

Can you retrive a specific marked version for an entire SOLUTION?

I'm extremely new to TS and it's not apparent to me. It's seems to me that it must be in there. Could someone please point out how to go about marking a whole solution with a version number or label and then retrieving that specific version back from the repository? Thx ...

failed to open VSTS 2008 project file

Hello everyone, I have an ASP.Net VSTS 2008 project and the project depends on database (SQL Server 2005), it could be opened by VSTS 2008 fine when the machine installed with SQL Server 2005. But when I copy the project to another computer without SQL Server 2005 installed, there is error message like this, any ideas what is wrong? Fa...

Team Foundation 2010 beta - get rid of unused fields (Migration plan)

Downloading it now and was wondering if anyone else has moved an existing Custom process template (Work Items types, work items and source control) to the beta. Over the past few years our custom process template has "evolved" and I know it has unused fields in it. Do you think if I set up another server added our custom process templat...