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It has been a busy time here at Conchango as we've been making plenty of changes to get Scrum for Team System working on Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server and also incorporating changes driven by community feedback and usage of the plugin on our own development projects. We should be ready to release after we ...

There are a few things that slow down development of MSBuild-based solutions with Visual Studio.  Typically MSBuild files are named with .proj, .properties or .targets extensions - so when you drag one of these files into the Visual Studio IDE there is no Intellisense. To get around this, go to Tools > Options > Text Editor > File ...

Last week I was doing a lot of ASP.NET debugging – tracing through Microsoft AJAX web service calls and was getting a little frustrated of the time lag for starting a site in debug mode; I remembered a Visual Studio macro for attaching to the worker process and that I had rewritten in a couple of years ago to attach to multiple worker ...

The following code will get the correct database and server name for the Team Foundation Server Work Item Tracking database. Note in the call to GetRegistrationEntries you can use any one of the following ...

Looks like if you create area paths in code, then you can’t access them straight away from the item.Project.AreaRootNodes property, but have to go back up to the Store for the item, and look at its Projects collection…workItem.Project.AreaRootNodes.Count0workItem.Store.Projects[item.Project.Name].AreaRootNodes.Count2Even though these ...

EXPORT From Visual studio command prompt, issue the following command to export your work item type. C:\>witexport /f "c:\BugWIT.xml" /t myservername /p mytfsprojectname /n "Bug" /exportgloballists Work item type export complete. IMPORT - Validation First validate the xml file, using the validate switch C:\>witimport ...

If you get an exception saying the directory name is invalid when browsing the change sets from the automaton dashboard for a build type, then ensure you apply the permissions as listed in the below fix on the automaton web site.  Exception: The directory name C:\Documents and Settings\User\Local Settings\Application ...

http://www.woodwardweb.com/vsts/000286.html Hack #1 - Stopping Team Explorer from connecting on Visual Studio 2005 Start-up Add a DWORD value called "AutoLoadServer" under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\TeamFoundation.  Zero means do not reconnect automatically. I first read about this setting over at Tim ...

Change the old server name to the new one in the following places in order to rename a virtual PC that’s acting as a Team foundation server…Registry changes1.     HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Web Server Extensions\Secure\ConfigDb 2.     ...

If you receive an HTTP internal server error 500, when trying to invoke the GetStatus operation of the Rebuilder Web service (.e.g http://localhost/RebuilderService/RebuilderService.asmx?op=GetStatus or http://localhost:8080/Warehouse/v1.0/warehousecontroller.asmx?op=Reinitialize) then check that a previous attempt to rebuild the warehouse ...