Looking to the future release of Expression Blend 4 I had some questions on how things will work with TFS. The main thing Iw as looking for was work item creation based on SketchFlow screens embedded within Expression Blend itself. Well I found out the other day that the extent of this integration has been expanded on from the previous release but it isn't as robust as I had hoped. The following is the main point of the conversation I had.
- You will be able to create TFS work items from SketchFlow feedback, but you will not be able to create general work items from within Blend – this had to be cut...
For those looking forward to heavier integration it looks like those items had to be cut but I imagine they will continue to be developed upon and will be released in the future.
Steps to make MS Project create a log file of exceptions occuring during the load/refresh/publish using the "TFSOfficeAdd-In.dll" component.
1) Navigaate to the directory that winproj.exe lives in. (Typically "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\[Version]\" where [Version] is the Office version I.E. Office12, Office14)
2) Create a new text file named winproj.exe.config
3) Add the following XML as the contents of the winproj.exe.config file:
<configuration>
<system.diagnostics>
<switches>
<add name="General" value="3" />
</switches>
<trace autoflush="false" indentsize="3" />
</system.diagnostics>
</configuration>
From now on, anytime an error occurs with your synch, a log file is created in the "%temp%" directory titled "tfs_msproject.log"
I was running into an odd problem today when trying to add some new custom columns to a Microsoft Project project plan. These fields were driven by the values in other columns, in other words they calculated columns that used custom formulas I created to poluate them with content. I had added new fields to my project plan and validated and tested the formulas. Next I updated my task.xml to contain the new fields in TFS and uploaded that, then changed the FieldMapping.xml to reflect the mapping.
I had only added two new fields (and have done this many times before) so I wasn't at all worried about failure. Sure enough when I hit refresh the first time I received "TF82039: Team Foundation was unable to modify the project plan". I knew I couldn't have done anything wrong so I was worried that the fact that these columns were calculated was the issue. After much searching and no results I decided to troubleshoot a little more. I removed the mapping to one of the columns in my FieldMapping.xml and tried to refresh again. Project/TFS magically completed the process with no errors. So I went back and added the other field back in and voila, worked like charm.
I'm still not sure what the deal was, or why it let me add the one at a time. SO, if you run into this problem, try adding the new mappings one at a time. It also might help to create a tfs_msproject.log file to get the stacktrace and exception that occurs in your case.
I'll post steps to ensure that that file gets created later.
Ran into this issue today when upgrading a SQL 2008 Express instance up to Enterprise and trying to run Sharepoint Configuration Wizard. Apparently SharePoint 2010 Beta doesn't like SQL 2008 Enterprise without a few hotfixes...Those of which are still in beta themselves...Those can be found in the full text of the error I recieved as follows:
"SQL Server at XXX has an unsupported version 10.0.2531.0. The minimum required SQL versions are SQL Server 2005 SP3 CU3, version number: 9.00.4220.00, downloadable from “http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967909”, or SQL Server 2008 SP1 CU2, version number 1.00.2714.00, downloadable from “http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970315”.
Anywho, I'm downloading now and will install tomorrow. I'll update with my findings from there.
Good luck.
Don't know how I missed this but the TFS 2010 Beta 2 PowerTools were released on December 17th 2009. Here is the link to the download page.
TFS 2010 Beta 2 PowerTools
Have fun!