Visual Studio Team System

Q: Where can I find documentation for Team System, including walkthroughs?

A: Product documentation, including walkthroughs, is available by installing the MSDN Library that ships with Team System. In addition, during the Beta 2 timeframe the Visual Studio 2005 Beta Documentation should be updated with the content that ships

Q: What is this error in my application event log: "[SyncCss] The specified object has not been registered."

A: This is a known issue in this release. There is no workaround available. When this occurs, you cannot successfully delete a classification node. However, you can still add, move or rename a classification node. Applicability: Visual Studio 2005 Team

Q: When will Visual Studio 2005 be available for purchase, and how much will it cost?

A: The Visual Studio 2005 family of products will be available in Summer 2005. Detailed pricing and licensing will be announced in March. Applicability: Visual Studio 2005

Q: What can cause SyncWithAD_Lookup to fail when creating a new team project?

A: A user object in Active Directory can be referenced using a number of possible names, such as the user principal name (UPN) or user logon name. For this release, the pre-Windows 2000 user logon name (also known as the security account manager name

Q: Why does the "Scc.SccTask" fail due to this exception: "The added or subtracted value results in an unrepresentable DateTime."

A: This is a known issue in this release. As a workaround, you can set both the client and application tier computers to use the Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) time zone. To change the time zone In Control Panel , open Date and Time . Click the Time Zone tab.

Q: What's new with merging and branching? Why is it better? Can you associate criteria with a merge?

A: Branches are managed holistically so that any type of change within the branch (i.e., files added, deleted, renamed, or edited) will be merged when you merge your changes. We manage changes that are checked in together as a “changeset”, which makes

Q: Will there be an easy way to write your own utility to migrate source code to Team Foundation version control?

A: The object model is easy to use and has all of the capabilities you need for building such a tool. Applicability: Prerelease

Q: Can a developer have their work items when they are disconnected (i.e., some form of caching?)

A: You can export a list of work items from Team Foundation into Microsoft Excel or Microsoft Project. You can edit this list while disconnected from the server and then publish the edited list back to Team Foundation when you reconnect. There is no similar

Q: Does Team Foundation support automated workflow for work items?

A: The work item type templates define the behavior of each of the types in your work item database. Each template carries rules that must be followed when a work item is moved from one state to another. You could design rules that had the effect of automatically

Q: How do you know which methodology template was chosen once the portfolio project is created?

A: Each methodology template loads its own set of process guidance files. These HTML files can be used to navigate the entire methodology. Applicability: Prerelease

Q: During Team Foundation Server Setup I get the following error: 26403. What's wrong?

A: See the following Community Solutions Content : COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS CONTENT DISCLAIMER MICROSOFT CORPORATION AND/OR ITS RESPECTIVE SUPPLIERS MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT THE SUITABILITY, RELIABILITY, OR ACCURACY OF THE INFORMATION AND RELATED GRAPHICS

Q: Why does the RunFxCop task fail when I run MSBuild from the command line?

A: When you build from the command line, the build report may contain an error for the RunFxCop task that says, "The system cannot find the path specified." This is a known problem that is fixed in later releases. It occurs because the environment variable,

Q: Where can I find the command-line Performance Tools?

A: By default, they are installed here: %ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Enterprise Developer Tools\Performance Tools Applicability: Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1 Refresh with Visual Studio 2005 Team System

Q: How can I determine if my Team Foundation failure is due to a domain naming problem?

A: As mentioned in this post , having a NETBIOS domain name that is not the same as the domain component (DC) of the distinguished name can cause Group Security Services to fail due to a disjoint namespace. To determine if this is causing your Team Foundation

Q: Can I use Team Foundation if the NETBIOS name for my domain doesn't match the distinguished name?

A: No. In this release, Group Security Services (GSS) resolves identities by taking the distinguished name (DN), finding the deepest domain component (DC), which it assumes is the domain name (e.g., DC=NewYorkCity). It then caches the identity as domain\username