Visual Studio Team System

A: No. As noted in the Visual Studio 2005 Team System Readme: 2.1.4 English Only Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1 Refresh with Visual Studio 2005 Team System has only been tested on English versions of the operating system, prerequisites (including Microsoft...

Problem : During the Application Tier setup, Error 32000 occurs when performing quiet execution (QuietExec) of certain Windows Installer custom actions (CAs). This may happen for the following executables: Bisregedit.exe SetupWarehouse.exe ...

With the Microsoft announcement of Visual Studio Team System at Tech·Ed, a dream of mine is coming true. You see, I’m sort of an odd duck here at Microsoft. Although I’ve been in the IT industry for twenty-some years, I don’t have a computer science degree...

The Microsoft Solutions Framework: An Integrated Approach to Agile or Formal Software Development Process Granville G. Miller, Program Manager, Visual Studio 2005 Team System It would certainly be nice if there could be one way of building software. However...

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...

A: No. For this release, only the default instance of SQL Server will work. Applicability: Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1 Refresh with Visual Studio 2005 Team System

Problem : For the most part, reporting is not available in this release. Web parts that are designed to display current project health reports on the Project Portal instead display error messages. Workaround : None. Applicability : Visual Studio...

A: Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server will integrate with Microsoft Project Server through the use Microsoft Project Professional 2003 (VSTS <-> Microsoft Project Professional 2003 <-> Microsoft Project Server 2003). There...

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...

Jack Greenfield and Keith Short, Architects, Visual Studio Enterprise Tools, Microsoft Corporation Industrializing Software Development Total global demand for software will grow by an order of magnitude over the next decade, driven by new forces in the...

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...

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...

Problem : When viewing a report generated using managed sampling with object allocation and object lifetime collection turned on, the data in the Object Lifetime view is not valid. Workaround : For valid data, use managed instrumentation profiling...

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...

Problem : The checkin/out history of a file does not display in the history window even if it has been modified multiple times. Workaround : To view file history, run the history command from a command prompt in the local workspace: h history [...

A: The most common cause of Team Foundation Server application tier setup failures (36%) in Beta 2 is SQL Server services (in particular, Reporting Services) not running prior to installing the application tier. Before installing the Team Foundation Server...

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...

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

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...

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

Problem : When trying to create a new checkin policy, you receive the following error: Could not load file or assembly ‘CleanBuildPolicy, Version=8.0.1200.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a’ or one of its dependencies...

Problem : You cannot type a lowercase ‘q’ or a period ‘.’ in the work item query builder. Workaround : Use an uppercase ‘Q’. There is no workaround for typing periods. Applicability : Visual Studio 2005 Team System...

Problem : During Team Foundation Server application tier setup, setup does not block installation if SharePoint Portal Server is installed. While setup may still succeed, creating a Team Project will fail. Workaround : Remove SharePoint Portal Server...

Problem : When attempting to run code coverage from the command line, or by running a test with code coverage enabled on a virtual machine, the code coverage monitor will fail to start. Workaround : None. Applicability : Visual Studio 2005 Team...

A: You can find whitepapers, demos, presentations, and community forums such as blogs and newsgroups on the distributed system designers on the Visual Studio Team System Developer Center for Architects.