I’ve been asked several time about this issue – are there any restrictions  in setting up Team Foundation Server on a virtual server as a development server?

The answer is NO. There are no issues for such installation.

Read about it here.

Tags: Team System, Team System 2008, Team System Tips

This white paper outlines how to use Visual Studio Team System for successful requirements management using Visual Studio Team System 2005 or Visual Studio Team System 2008. In addition, you can use this paper to learn about some of the challenges that Microsoft intends to address in the next release: Visual Studio Team System code name “Rosario.”

Download:  Requirements Management with Visual Studio Team System

Tags: Rosario, Team System, Team System 2008, Team System 2010

Sometimes you need to restrict users to use work items or make it obsolete. We can’t delete a work item type from the process template, so we must find other ways. I didn’t find a good solution for that issue.  (There is an article from MS, how to make a work item obsolete, but I needed other solution. read here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms184761.aspx)

You can do that by editing work item type definition for the type and setting permissions on the first transition:

<TRANSITION from="" to="Opened" for="YOUR DOMAIN\USER OR GROUP" >

That way, only authorized users can open work item of this type.

Tags: Team System, Team System 2008, Team System Tips

Do you want to get answers to your toughest questions from the Visual Studio and TFS product teams? Well, join the next product group chat in April 9th. (Read here previous chat summary).

Here are the particulars, from Jeff Beehler’s blog:

Join members of the Visual Studio Team System product group to discuss features available in Team Foundation Server, Team Suite, Architecture Edition, Development Edition, Database Edition, and Test Edition. In addition, discuss what’s new for these editions for Visual Studio 2008.

Add to Calendar

April 9, 2008
10:00 A.M. Pacific Time
Additional Time Zones

Tags: Team System

Often I asked “What do I need to install on the TFS build machine in order to run tests?”

Well, the answer is simple.

In VSTS 2005 you have to install the Tester or Suite editions on the Build Machine to run tests (even Unit Tests).

In VSTS 2008 installing the Developer Edition version is enough.

Tags: Team Build, Team Build 2008, Team System, Team System 2008

Visual Studio 2005 Team System Database Professional post Service Release 1 (SR1) roll-up package 1, is now available.

Problems that are fixed:

• Inconsistent revalidation of database object definitions when you close and then reopen a Visual Studio database project
• A database project cannot be deployed if the project contains interdependent inline functions
• If you use a four-part name to reference a table, you may receive an incorrect syntax exception
• Database Professional Interpreter does not handle the “sp_executesql” parameter correctly
• In a Visual Studio 2005 database, you cannot import a schema that was created by using the SQL Server 2000 compatibility mode
• Error message when you use Design-Time Extensibility (DTE) objects: “Do you want to reload”
• Cross-database references cause slow performance when you load a project
• Schema Compare crashes the Visual Studio IDE when databases contain different versions of assemblies
• Schema Compare does not correctly generate the update script for a stored procedure
• The schema script is not generated when triggers or views that have the same name exist
• Error message when you build a deployment script: “MSB4018: The ‘SqlBuildTask’ task failed unexpectedly”
• After Schema Compare obtains the latest project files from Source Control, Schema Compare indicates that databases are different

For more details, see knowledge base article KB941278.

You can download the roll-up from the Microsoft Connect site at:
http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=11229

Tags: Team System, VSTS DB Pro

I often visit customers and work outside the office, means I work disconnected for a while.

It’s laborious when I open VS (2005 or 2008) and waiting for VS to connect automatically to TFS.

Colin Beales has an excellent tip that explains how to stop Visual Studio from automatically connecting to a TFS server when it starts up.

• Backup your registry
• Navigate to Team Foundation key:
  • For VS 2005 navigate to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\TeamFoundation
  • For VS 2008 navigate to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\TeamFoundation
• Add a registry key “AutoLoadServer” (type DWORD)
• Setting the value to be 0 (Do not connect automatically or 1 to connect automatically).

Tags: Team System, Team System Tips, Visual Studio 2008, Visual Studio Team System

I often visit customers and work outside the office, means I work disconnected for a while.

It’s laborious when I open VS (2005 or 2008) and waiting for VS to connect automatically to TFS.

Colin Beales has an excellent tip that explains how to stop Visual Studio from automatically connecting to a TFS server when it starts up.

• Backup your registry
• Navigate to Team Foundation key:
• For VS 2005 navigate to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\TeamFoundation
• For VS 2008 navigate to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\TeamFoundation
• Add a registry key "AutoLoadServer" (type DWORD)
• Setting the value to be 0 (Do not connect automatically or 1 to connect automatically).

Tags: Team System, visual studio

According to Jeff Beehler:

I’m happy to announce that the next Community Technology Preview of Rosario (officially known as Microsoft® Visual Studio® Team System code name “Rosario” November 2007 CTP) is now available.  Customers can immediately begin downloading the VPC images from our download page.

Download and check what’s coming up next for Visual Studio Team System!

Tags: Rosario, Team System, Team System 2010

Do you want to discuss features available in Team Foundation Server, Team Suite, Architecture Edition, Development Edition, Database Edition, and Test Edition? You can join members of the Visual Studio Team System product group chats.

There will be two chat sessions.  (times in the Jerusalem time zone)

• Join the chat on Wednesday, December 5th, 2007 from 20:00 – 21:00 Jerusalem Time. Add to Calendar
• Join the chat on Thursday, December 6th, 2007 from 02:00AM – 03:00AM Jerusalem Time. Add to Calendar

Tags: Team System, Visual Studio Team System