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Team System
I am just reposting this thread from a MSDN forum since it seems to be unavailable. It was very useful when I was having trouble with my folder mappings after migrating to TFS 2010. Question: I opened VS2008 and connected it to the upgraded 2010 TFS server. Upon clicking any of our Team Projects in source control explorer I get "Team Foundation Error - The workspace MYWORKSPACE;DOMAIN\MYUsername already exists on computer MYPCNAME." Answer: The same local paths on your machine are mapped to 2 different ......
Once you have imported a list of work items in excel from a team project in TFS, the excel file always proposes work items from the same team project. It does not seem possible to obtain the "connect to TFS" popup window again, where you choose the team project. This is because the connection is stored as a custom property in the excel file. The answer is to delete all custom properties from the file. Go to the main menu and then: Prepare / Properties / Document Properties / Advanced Properties / ......
Just to clarify the different tools that you can use to update/recreate the Team Foundation Server warehouse (relational database and OLAP cube). Warehouse Web Service You can browse and invoke it here (always locally from TFS): http://localhost:8080/Wareh... The Run operation will launch processing of the warehouse (you can check the status of the warehouse with the GetWarehouseStatus operation: it goes from ProcessingAdapters, ProcessingOlap and finally Idle). Processing ......
I will be a speaker at the Micrsoft "Enterprise & Development Summit 2007" in Luxembourg on June 12th. This is equivalent to the Belgian DevDays or the French TechDays. You can find the agenda and details here (in French). My session is about Team System. I will probably give a general overview and a few short demos since there haven't been many event on VSTS in Luxembourg before. This is my first (and hopefully not last) time as a speaker. Let's hope I don't get too nervous! :) Technorati tags: ......
Be careful not to have any work items open in Visual Studio when updating their definitions with witimport because they will not be modified Suppose you have been checking your tasks and one is open in Visual Studio (I'm not referring to status here, I just mean open in a window). Then, you proceed to run witimport with the task definition. All tasks except the one open will be updated. You will have to close the task and run witimport again. Technorati tags: Team System, witimport, work item ......
After clarifying the concepts of tracks, workstreams and activities (see these previous posts), we still felt something was missing in our process template (based on "MSF for CMMI"). A couple of our developers have been working on a lists of tasks for a recent project. They are not involved in the Team System rollout so they are not aware of any of the MSF concepts mentioned earlier. They have organized the work in a hierarchy. For example: Database schema creation Analyse DTS file Analyse Excel ......
A few days ago I blogged about a discussion about MSF workstreams, activities, areas and iterations we had at the office (you can read about it here). The final decision (that I did not favour) was to include in our work items a field to indicate the current track/workstream/activity. The possible values were hardcoded like this: The reason I did not like these customization is that I believe this information has no place in work items. Workstreams and activities are like cooking recipes and their ......
During the past week I have been busy creating a Team System process template to be used by the MSFT Development group where I work. While discussing this topic with my boss and showing him how the MSF for CMMI work items look like, he asked that I add a field to indicate the current track, workstream and activity. To be more precise, he asked me to use the "Area path" field for workstreams and activities, and to add an extra field to specify the track. I proceeded with these changes (yes, a bit ......
This post is quite old (one year) but still useful since it outlines the main differences between NUnit and Team System tests in terms of attributes and assertions. A good summary.
Another chapter on my experience helping a client adopt Team System. This time, the goal was to convert their NUnit test to Team System tests. This is not a very difficult topic given the great conversion tool available on gotdotnet (here), which basically does all the work for you. However, I did stumble upon a few issues. Before going into that, this is the basic procedure I followed (fortunately, NUnit tests were already placed in a single project (*.Test)): a. Create a new test project (named ......
For the last few months I have been helping a client adopt Team System - Team Foundation Server. Since these tools are quite new, I will try to keep a log of what I have done. Builds: From MSBuild to TFSBuild The starting situation is an MSBuild script customized for a given team's needs. The default target can execute the following procedure: Delete network share Backup latest build Clean Get latest from source control Increase version and add label in source control if building in Release mode ......