When starting Visual Studio it automatically tries to connect to your TFS, which can be very annoying if you work offline. You will probably see: TF30331: Team Explorer could not connect to the Team Foundation server … You can turn this auto-connect behavior off by setting the following files in the registry: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\TeamFoundation "AutoLoadServer" = […]
Entries from June 29th, 2009
Disable auto-connect to TFS on VS startup
June 29th, 2009 · No Comments · Team Explorer, Team Foundation Server, TFS Tips and Tricks
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TSWA: Report view not showing all work items
June 29th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Team System Web Access (TWA), TFS 2008 SP1, TFS Installation and Configuration, VSTS
If you have more than 100 work items in a query and you use Tools » Report View to prepare the list for printing you might notice that not all work items are shown on the report. Here’s what Hakan Eskici, the father of Web Access, has to say about this: There’s a limit to […]
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Cannot download attachements from Work Item Web Access
June 29th, 2009 · No Comments · Team System Web Access (TWA), TFS Installation and Configuration
Solution provided by Hakan Eskici from Microsoft: If you are using the WIWA feature in the latest TSWA 2008 SP1, you may notice that it’s not possible to download attachment files from the work item window. As a workaround, you can edit Wiwa\UI\Pages\WorkItems\DownloadAttachment.aspx and modify the page directive to fix this by adding the HasPermission […]
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Naming Restrictions for Team Foundation Server
June 3rd, 2009 · No Comments · Team Foundation Server, TFS 2008, TFS Administration, TFS Tips and Tricks, VSTS
If you ever had questions like: How long is the team project’s name allowed to be? How many levels may an work item area hierarchy have? Which characters are allowed in build type names? What is the maximum supported size for work item attachments? Those are answered by the MSDN topic: Naming Restrictions for Team […]
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