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• Uninstalling TFS 2005 (services) on the app tier removes reporting services virtual directories

  After uninstalling TFS 2005 (services) from a standby TFS application tier the SQL Server Reporting Services were not available, i.e. browsing http://server/reports and http://server/reportserver/ resulted in a 404 error. Workaround: Run the Reporting... Posted May 07 2008, 12:19 AM by neno with | with no comments Filed under: Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Server Administration, For Infrastructure Architects, Version 2005, TFS Reporting, Bugs/Issues and Hotfixes

• Documentation: Team Foundation Server SDK (online version)

  From the contents: Team Foundation Server Extensibility Team Foundation Server SDK Architecture How to: Run Team Foundation Server SDK Samples Team Foundation Core Services Work Item Tracking Extensibility Source Control Extensibility Data Warehouse Extensibility... Posted Feb 23 2008, 02:55 PM by neno with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: For Software Developers, Team Foundation Server (TFS), Third-Party Solutions, TFS Extensibility, Training and Learning, Team Foundation Version Control, Version 2005, Version 2008, Team Build Server, TFS Administration, TFS Customization

• How code churn is calculated in TFS 2005/2008

  Code churn [1] in TFS 2005 and TFS 2008 is calculated using a very simple algorithm: inserted + changed + deleted lines [2]. This is done independently of the contents of the line, which means that everything - incl. comments, blank lines, etc. - is counted... Posted Feb 23 2008, 02:51 PM by neno with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: For Software Developers, Team Foundation Server (TFS), Version 2005, Version 2008, VSTS Developer Edition, Software Quality, For Release Managers, Team Build Server, TFS Reporting, Quality Assurance (QA) with VSTS

• FIX: An unexpected error occurred while trying to add a web part to a project portal in TFS 2005

  Due to a lot of requests about this pretty common problem. Steps you did: You browsed for a web part: You selected one and hit "Add": You got the error message: "An unexpected error occurred." This is a know issue with WSS 2.0 and... Posted Feb 20 2008, 12:42 AM by neno with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Server Administration, Downloads, Version 2005, Project Management with TFS, TFS Administration, Project Portal and Team Communication, Bugs/Issues and Hotfixes, Issues and Hotfixes

• Known Work Item History Limitations for Links & Attachments

  They are two major problems when looking into the history with regard to links. 1. No clue what has changed : If you remove an attachment and add a completely different one the history will indicate that there was a change (revision gets in incremented... Posted Feb 20 2008, 12:30 AM by neno with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: For Project Managers, Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Change Management, Tips and Tricks, Version 2005, Version 2008, Project Management with TFS, For Business Analysts, Troubleshooting, Quality Assurance (QA) with VSTS, Bugs/Issues and Hotfixes

• Whitepaper: Operations Guidance for Team Foundation Server

  Summary: You can manage your deployment of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server more effectively if you create your own operations plan. As you create your plan, you should understand key elements of the architecture of Team Foundation... Posted Oct 05 2007, 02:25 PM by neno with | with no comments Filed under: Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Server Administration, Downloads, Training and Learning, Tips and Tricks, Version 2005, For IT-Administrators, TFS Administration

• Method not found: 'Void Microsoft.Reporting.PreviewItemContext.SetPath()' when using Report View in TSWA

  If you get the following error message above when using the Report View in Team System Web Access… … you need to install the Microsoft Report Viewer Redistributable 2005 on your TFS App Tier (as described here ) to make it work again. How it looks when... Posted Sep 07 2007, 12:46 PM by neno with | with no comments Filed under: Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Server Administration, Tips and Tricks, Version 2005, Team System Web Access (TSWA), Bugs/Issues and Hotfixes, Issues and Hotfixes

• Check-In is slow when using exclusive check-out?

  It’s still hot: Microsoft released a fix for slow check-in’s if you’re using exclusive check-out feature yesterday: FIX: The check-in process may be very slow when you use the Source Control feature in Visual Studio 2005 Team System Read more here . Posted Sep 06 2007, 09:53 PM by neno with | with no comments Filed under: For Software Developers, Team Foundation Server (TFS), Tips and Tricks, Team Foundation Version Control, Version 2005, Bugs/Issues and Hotfixes, Issues and Hotfixes

• Changing TFS email notifications to link to Team System Web Access

  Thanks to this MSDN Forums post I was able to change the link included in every TFS notification e-mail to point to TSWA instead of the project portal. Here’s the full story: When using project alerts to get notified about work item changes you... Posted Aug 31 2007, 04:44 PM by neno with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: For Project Managers, TFS Server Administration, TFS Work Item Tracking, Tips and Tricks, Team Foundation Version Control, Version 2005, Project Management with TFS, TFS Administration, Project Portal and Team Communication, Team System Web Access (TSWA), TFS Customization, Notification and Alerts

• How to remove someone else's workspace in TFS

  A customer asked: “During my vacation my collegue was working on my machine and mapped the solution file to D:\Projects. Now I returned and wanted to map the solution to that folder as well, which obviously doesn’t work since it is already... Posted Aug 30 2007, 05:59 PM by neno with | with no comments Filed under: For Software Developers, For Project Managers, Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Server Administration, Tips and Tricks, Team Foundation Version Control, Version 2005, TFS Administration

• Hotfix for: Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl.Adapter: An error occurred while processing changeset

  If you have the following error occurring every periodically when your warehouse is updated… The description text is as follows: Event Type: Error Event Source: TFS Warehouse Event Category: None Event ID: 3000 Date: nn/nn/nnnn Time: 10:58:00 User... Posted Aug 30 2007, 05:23 PM by neno with | with no comments Filed under: Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Server Administration, Version 2005, TFS Administration, Troubleshooting

• Creating a separate work item form layout for Web Access

  Right now custom work item controls [1] are not supported by Team System Web Access [2]. Instead your custom control you will see this unpleasant message: “Unable to create workitem control ‘ControlName’”. While this is a sad thing for us users does that... Posted Aug 29 2007, 06:32 PM by neno with | with no comments Filed under: Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Work Item Tracking, Tips and Tricks, Version 2005, TFS Administration, Team System Web Access (TSWA), TFS Customization, Work Item Customization

• Listing version control changes with check-in comments using TFS

  You can easily query for changes on a team project or a specified version control folder underneath and display them in a list with the check-in comments. By using Team System Web Access (TSWA): Note: I’m showing this first because the dialog is... Posted Aug 27 2007, 06:36 PM by neno with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: For Software Developers, For Project Managers, Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Change Management, Tips and Tricks, Team Foundation Version Control, Version 2005, For Release Managers, TFS Clients, Team Explorer, Team System Web Access (TSWA)

• Enabling email functionality in Team System Web Access (TSWA)

  By default, the email functionality in Team System Web Access (TSWA) is disabled and users will receive the following message when trying to use it: “Sending email is not enabled. Please contact your administrator.” To enable you need to change... Posted Aug 27 2007, 06:28 PM by neno with | with no comments Filed under: For Project Managers, Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Server Administration, Tips and Tricks, Version 2005, For IT-Administrators, TFS Clients, Team System Web Access (TSWA)

• Free Add-On: Team System Web Access (TSWA) Power Tool by Microsoft

  Microsoft now offers version 2.0 of the Team System Web Access (formerly known as TeamPlain Web Access from DevBiz , which was acquired by Microsoft ) free of charge as a Power Tool with official Microsoft Customer Service support! Download it from here... Posted Aug 27 2007, 06:10 PM by neno with | with no comments Filed under: For Project Managers, Team Foundation Server (TFS), Third-Party Solutions, Downloads, Tools and Utilities, Version 2005, Version 2008, TFS Clients, Team System Web Access (TSWA)

• Copy area and interation structure using the Area Import/Export Tool

  If you look for a way to export and import your area and/or iteration structure the Team Foundation Object Model (TFOM) is your friend. However it’s only your friend if you know where to look for. While the export works perfectly using the WorkItemStore... Posted Jul 07 2007, 09:21 PM by neno with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: For Project Managers, Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Extensibility, TFS Server Administration, TFS Work Item Tracking, Downloads, Tools and Utilities, Tips and Tricks, Version 2005, Version 2008, Work Item Customization

• Getting started using Custom Work Item Controls

  Since Service Pack 1 [1] we have the ability to create our own controls to display field value within a work item form which gives us great flexibility. However there are two caveats with custom work item controls right now that aren’t solved: They... Posted Jul 07 2007, 05:26 PM by neno with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: For Project Managers, Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Extensibility, TFS Work Item Tracking, Tips and Tricks, Version 2005, TFS Customization, Work Item Customization

• Undocumented attributes for controlling the Work Item form layout

  Naren [1] revealed a few very interesting on hidden attributes his blog [2] which you definitely should take a look at since they let you solve some problems as the following ones: Control the height of two text boxes that were placed vertically on one... Posted Jul 07 2007, 04:42 PM by neno with | with no comments Filed under: For Project Managers, Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Work Item Tracking, Tips and Tricks, Version 2005, TFS Customization, Work Item Customization

• How Do I: Customize TeamPlain? and How Do I: Create Custom Work Items in Team Foundation Server?

  What do both topics have in common? Well, Microsoft started to publish How-Do-I-videos for various technologies and these two were the same topics covered on Visual Studio Team System. How Do I: Customize TeamPlain? In this video, Scott Golightly shows... Posted Jun 24 2007, 10:48 PM by neno with | with no comments Filed under: For Project Managers, TFS Extensibility, TFS Work Item Tracking, Training and Learning, Tips and Tricks, Version 2005

• Communicating via Work Items or: "Description" vs. "History" fields

  When working with Work Items often the questions comes up how to efficiently communicate between team members within TFS (not using e-mails) or what the difference between the Description field and the Comments field on the History tab is. Description... Posted Jun 18 2007, 11:55 PM by neno with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: For Project Managers, Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Work Item Tracking, Tips and Tricks, Version 2005