TFS & Visual Studio ALM – by Neno Loje

(formerly Team System, VSTS)

Entries Tagged as 'Issues and Hotfixes'

FIX: TFS 2008: Delete lost when you merge from delete-branch to trunk

July 10th, 2008 · No Comments · Issues and Hotfixes, Team Foundation Server, Team Foundation Version Control, TFS 2008, TFS Administration

> KB article > Hotfix download

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Beware of configuration changes – TFS might not like them

July 9th, 2008 · No Comments · Issues and Hotfixes, TFS Administration, TFS Installation and Configuration, Troubleshooting TFS, VSTS

If one of the following action are planned you should ready the appropriate documentation: Change the name of your TFS server Join a domain with your TFS or change the domain to which the TFS belongs Change the accounts used for running the TFS services Change the account passwords for the involved services (TFS + […]

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Documentation on how to troubleshoot TFS issues

July 9th, 2008 · No Comments · Issues and Hotfixes, Team Foundation Server, TFS Administration, TFS Installation and Configuration, Troubleshooting TFS

Check the Windows Event Log. Run TFS Best Practices Analyzer.(part of the Power Tools, requires PowerShell to be installed first) TFS-Team Explorer 2008 Troubleshooting Guide (@ MSDN Forums) Have a look at the available troubleshooting documentation on MSDN:   For connection trouble have a look at:Troubleshooting connections to TFS

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Uninstalling TFS 2005 (services) on the app tier removes reporting services virtual directories

May 6th, 2008 · No Comments · Issues and Hotfixes, Team Foundation Server, TFS 2005, TFS Administration, TFS Reporting

After uninstalling TFS 2005 (services) from a standby TFS application tier the SQL Server Reporting Services were not available, i.e. browsing http://server/reports and http://server/reportserver/ resulted in a 404 error. Workaround: Run the Reporting Services Configuration Tool and recreate both virtual directories and re-configure the identities.   (Thanks to Daniel Hackel who administers this environment.)

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FIX: An unexpected error occurred while trying to add a web part to a project portal in TFS 2005

February 19th, 2008 · No Comments · Downloads, Issues and Hotfixes, Project Management with TFS, Team Foundation Server, TFS 2005, TFS Administration, TFS Project Portal and Team Communication

Due to a lot of requests about this pretty common problem. Steps you did: You browsed for a web part: You selected one and hit “Add”: You got the error message: “An unexpected error occurred.” This is a know issue with WSS 2.0 and a hot fix [1] can be requested at Microsoft which corrects […]

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Known Work Item History Limitations for Links & Attachments

February 19th, 2008 · No Comments · Issues and Hotfixes, Project Management with TFS, Team Foundation Server, TFS 2005, TFS 2008, TFS Tips and Tricks, Troubleshooting TFS

They are two major problems when looking into the history with regard to links. 1. No clue what has changed:If you remove an attachment and add a completely different one the history will indicate that there was a change (revision gets in incremented by 1), but it won’t tell you what has changed since TFS […]

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TFS 2008 Trials: How to extend the trial?

February 12th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Issues and Hotfixes, Team Foundation Server, Team Foundation Version Control, TFS 2008, TFS Administration, Unreleased

Since Team Foundation Server 2008 was released end of November 2007 the early adopters which for some reasons have not obtained a product key yet are facing the problem of expiring trial licenses on their TFS servers. I definitely recommend to find out when your TFS trial expires. You can use the Version Detector Tool […]

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Some Code Analysis Rules gone in Visual Studio 2008

January 13th, 2008 · No Comments · 2915, Issues and Hotfixes, TFS 2008, VS Development Tools

I was very sad to hear that a few beloved rules were removed from code analysis (aka FxCop) in Visual Studio 2008. Here’s a list of the removed rules: Removed due to removal of data flow engine: CA1062 ValidateArgumentsOfPublicMethods CA1303 DoNotPassLiteralsAsLocalizedParameters CA2100 ReviewSqlQueriesForSecurityVulnerabilities CA2202 DoNotDisposeObjectsMultipleTimes CA2204 LiteralsShouldBeSpelledCorrectly CA2215 DisposeMethodsShouldCallBaseClassDispose CA2241 ProvideCorrectArgumentsToFormattingMethods CA2000 DisposeObjectsBeforeLosingScope Removed due to high noise or no longer applicable analysis: […]

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Method not found: ‘Void Microsoft.Reporting.PreviewItemContext.SetPath()’ when using Report View in TSWA

September 6th, 2007 · No Comments · Issues and Hotfixes, Team Foundation Server, Team System Web Access (TWA), TFS 2005, TFS Administration, TFS Tips and Tricks

If you get the following error message above when using the Report View in Team System Web Access… … you need to install the Microsoft Report Viewer Redistributable 2005 on your TFS App Tier (as described here) to make it work again. How it looks when it works Open a work item or a execute […]

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Check-In is slow when using exclusive check-out?

September 6th, 2007 · No Comments · Issues and Hotfixes, Team Foundation Server, Team Foundation Version Control, TFS 2005, TFS Tips and Tricks

It’s still hot: Microsoft released a fix for slow check-in’s if you’re using exclusive check-out feature yesterday: FIX: The check-in process may be very slow when you use the Source Control feature in Visual Studio 2005 Team System Read more here.

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