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1. A Have a look at James Manning s blog hitp blogs msdn com jmanning He s got a lot of nifty TFS cmdlets I m working on some toys too We may package them up into a Power Tool if there s enough interest As far as integrating into Rosario it s in the would be nice if there s time category DavidKean_ MS Moderator Q 48 The fxcop bugs are generally rule exceptions We have worked around some of them disabling rules but this is not ideal We have 100s of projects and it is hard to manage A By rule exceptions do you mean crashing rules Can you make sure that we know about these over on the Code Analysis forum http forums microsoft com msdn ShowForum aspx Forum ID 98 We have fixed a lot of these since 1 35 however want to make sure we fixed the ones you ve encountered Dennis MS Expert Q 49 have two issues with VSTS for bug tracking When a bug is marked as a duplicate there doesn t appear to be a way to have it automatically generate a link to the bug that is original bug A Yes that s correct there isn t currently a way to do this out of the box We are considering this as a feature for future versions post Orcas since we have exactly the same problem internally AaronHallberg MS Expert Q 60 One major complaint from our team is the difficulty of getting Cl and unit tests executing with MSBuild of TFS How have you ased that pain point A In Orcas Cl should be pretty straightforward since it is s
2. Administrative priviledges locally A Jason Prickett says I ve been running TFS on Vista for over a year and it does not require adminstrator privileges MichalMa_MS Expert Q 103 orcas client with whidbey what about it A Yes Orcas client should work with Whidbey server some new features won t work e g Destroy because they require server side Orcas FolderDiff and Annotate will work fine dgorena_MS Expert Q 50 3 well the problem is that they aren t part of an integrated solution and most the time have nothing to do with each other at all Unfortunately it was setup in my company that each team can t create new projects thus they end up with sub projects A understand that this approach taken will give the benefit of having everything together and thus controlling everything in one solution but yeah unfortunately this will have the cons that mentioned as well RichardBerg MS Expert Q 108 Can you let me know Rob Caron s blog address Thank you in advance A http blogs msdn com robcaron lan_MS Expert Q 108 Can you let me know Rob Caron s blog address Thank you in advance A http blogs msdn com robcaron Tan_MS Expert Q 97 If this has already been asked ignore it and will find it in the log later but is there a planned release time frame for Orcas A This information is not public at the moment RichardBerg MS Expert Q 112 The shelve feature is awesome too A
3. jboyle_msft Expert Q 70 We need to integrate teams from outside our company This was a problem in first realaese of TFS Has this been addressed A SP1 included a proxy to allow access from external users to TFS RichardBerg MS Expert Q 106 So if we use Orcas TFS Beta 1 in production we re hosed going forward Bo A Unless you are already on the list of TAP customers Beta 1 is not licensed for production use We won t do anything to block you from upgrading beta1 gt RTM but if something goes wrong tech support is on your dime kkelly_ms Expert Q 85 Can TeamPlain be deployed in a way in order to use it to provide limited and secure access to TFS for external customers If so what is the recommended deployment A Wer re still working through the licensing but the deployment will be on an application tier IIS Server with ports open outside the firewall See the online docs on the DevBiz site RichardBerg MS Expert Q 120 sorry if this was answered already cannot seem to find it How can get the pending changes to only show items related to the current solution instead of items in all solutions A There is a button at the top of the toolwindow called filter by solution won t try amp fail to describe the icon hover over each one until you see filter by solution DavidKean_ MS Moderator Q 115 Is there a way to categorize unit tests in Team Developer edition so that certain sets of unit
4. know of one or two books that have come out and another one that is in the works for later this year They cover varying scopes all of Team System or just Test don t have the titles in front of me but look at the major publishers such as Wrox and MSPress jboyle_msft Expert Q 143 what about the review workflow of tfs on the next release A We are looking at a wide range of options for workflow improvements in future releases ranging from more flexilble work item rules and state models to things like integration with windows workflow foundation sudhirh_ MS Expert Q 156 We are having a number of issues b c our TFS server is managed by IT and us as developers are trying to determine peicemeal what we need them to give us access to Is there a link or quick set of instructions for SP TFS and SQL that we could give them A Following links should give you information you need DavidKean MS Moderator Q 62 Q 23 Is there a way to look at errors if a a workitemeventchange event is fired and it cannot invoke the web service subscribed don t see any errors in the event log I ve enabled trace level 3 Any other ways A Can you ask this question on the TFS forums http forums microsoft com MSDN ShowForum aspx ForumID 479 amp SitelD 1 We don t have anyone here at the moment that can answer that question MadhuriG_MS Expert Q 189 was told that you cannot use a hidden share for your build drop location I
5. lt build name gt Binaries directory on the build server What performs this copy have a VC project that doesn t copy and files there and fails the link Michael _Giag For duplicate work items isn t it as simple as adding a field like Duplicate WI number Ishroop asked the experts Ishroop Dennis_MS Expert Us too We have the same problem internally It is being considered for a future release what issues you are facing with dublicate work items as stated Dave McKinstry Matteo The answer isn t No but rather Do you want to write code You can create a web service to answer your event handler e g Build Complete Check In etc which sends an instant message don t have links but you can Live Search it Glacier asked the experts Where can get the Spec user manual of VSTS OmarV see two different answers for Q 130 understand the go live license but please clarify my question is about the migration path not the go live license want to know if at any point will need to throw away and reinstall femi asked the experts was told that you cannot use a hidden share for your build drop location Is this true OmarV asked the experts see two different answers for Q 130 understand the go live license but please clarify my question is about the migration path not the go live license want to know if at any point will need to throw away and reinstall Matteo Emili thanks dave stood Dave McKinstry M
6. Expert Q 17 Are there any plans to add time tracking to TFS A We are still considering this feature for Rosario AaronHallberg MS Expert Q 14 What updates if any will be required to my custom targets and tasks when Orcas is released A For custom targets you should be in pretty good shape we tried to preserve all of the Whidbey targets in Orcas Custom tasks should also be OK in general but guess there could be specific issues depending on the goal of the task etc MichalMa_MS Expert Q 16 how VSTS compitable with VS2003 A you can use Tfs Msscci provider for version control integration and very basic WIT VS 2003 does not integrate with Team System Tan_MS Expert Q 13 1 Just to clarify Will the Power Tool version be available during the TFS Orcas Beta 1 timeframe A Not sure Most likely shortly after duncand_ms Expert Srikanth Not for Orcas kkelly_ms Expert Q 7 know a software company that has about 10 or 20 employees involved in software dev They use SVN CVS Excel and a bit of Mantis Their software is almost 100 either Windows or Web They don t want to move to TFS because they re afraid it s too complex A deal with this discusson a lot Is there a specific blocking issue can help you with Tan_MS Expert Q 25 When view pending checkins see the pending items of all projects am working on How can limit that to only the project am working on A There
7. Thanks SmithaS MS Expert Q 104 have not been able to create work item custom contols even after installing the patch ans see that the same problem is being faced by many others as stated in the forum its there any document link that details th process or fix for these issues A Hello here are few links that may help you resolve the issue lt http ologs msdn com narend archive 2006 10 02 How to use Custom Controls in Work ltem Form aspx gt lt http teamsystemrocks com blogs mickey_qousset archive 2006 10 20 1167 aspx gt lt http oblogs msdn com narend archive 2006 1 1 03 deploying custom controls that use teamfoundation assemblies aspx gt lt http blogs msdn com narend archive 2006 10 19 communicating between custom controls building parent child controls aspx gt lt BR lt a gt gt Ablal MS Expert Q 87 Team Test seems geared towared developers not testers could be missing something but don t know QA folks that think it s useful enough to use Are there any books references best practices that can read to understand how to integrate the testers A am guessing when you say Testers you are referring to someone who does testing other than Unit Testing The current feature set does support Testers who write automation that is at functional level thru test lists results publishing reporting etc but there is not much to help the manual tester That is going to be a big focus for Rosario
8. 10 or 5 5 gt 25 Michael_Giag OTOH your business app wont suddenly have gradient buttons and animatiosn onclick raj asked the experts q 214 0pen from souce control Philip Stears Or fish buttons OmarV For Q 169 usually add the solutions for the first time from Solution Explorer not SCC Explorer OmarV asked the experts For Q 169 usually add the solutions for the first time from Solution Explorer not SCC Explorer Sheila Shovlin asked the experts How can easily modify the bug template to include a subscribe button so the user can subscribe to emails for that bug s activity Philip Stears Mike Taulty has a lot to answer for Philip Stears Michael_Giag Easy enough for cavement Well lets just say that there are developers out there who are at the caveman level and they write all sorts of software and can imagine some use TFS Ishroop Moderator How about the questions that are not answered here can we expect the answrs to be in archieve reiko who can chat with me so sad reiko Matteo Emili she s boring Matteo Emili avoid her Dave McKinstry think caveman compatibility is based on caveman version and the size of the club they carry Smaller clubs are preferred Bijal Is it possible to build multiple solution files through one Team Build Project in TFS raj great job guys Matteo Emili very good chat ben2004uk cheers for the chat guys Shaun Team Foundation Server So easy a java develop
9. and by extension SharePoint and SQL Can you recommend a good set of instructions for this A Our best practice here is to create AD security groups and then enter that group in each of the 3 apps TFs SRS WSS and then you only have to update that one AD group kkelly_ms Expert Q 33 What are the software that will have a more integration with future versions of TFS A we have many plans for more S specifically are you interested in or better what would you like to see us invest in next RichardBerg MS Expert Q 21 What books if any are out that you would recommend A keep a list here http del icio us RichardBerg tfs books sudhirh_ MS Expert Q 22 Are there any issues with any parts of VS on 64 bit Windows If so will Orcas address them completely A Orcas will not support 64 bit on AT you can use 64 bit on DT Team explorer should work fine BhavikS MS Expert Q 35 Do you have any onsite support for setting up Team Build and Team system please proved contact info A You could contact our CSS teams for getting formal support for any of TFS components They will have variety of phone call support onsite support or consultancy kind of support that you could use at some appropriate price tag Besides that msdn forums are great way to get some useful information directly from product team for free Keren MS Expert Q 23 Is there a way to look at errors if a a workitemeventchange event is fired a
10. as the diff tool sudhirh_ MS Expert Q 156 We are having a number of issues b c our TFS server is managed by IT and us as developers are trying to determine peicemeal what we need them to give us access to Is there a link or quick set of instructions for SP TFS and SQL that we could give them A Administrators start here http msdn2 microsoft com en gb library ms253096 VS 80 aspx Project Admins start here http msdn2 microsoft com en gb library ms253174 VS 80 aspx Contributors start here http msdn2 microsoft com en gb library ms252467 VS 80 aspx For Orcas we are consolidating all this information Tan_MS Expert Q 149 Is it possible to generate a check out report to see who has what checked out this would be very useful when it comes to releasing A Interesting thought There isn t anything built in to do this but something like this can easily be built as a Power Tool RichardBerg MS Expert Q 192 Are there any plans to add more intelligent merging support for example XML files that haven t really changed but have been re ordered should be relatively easy to auto merge A Not really My guess is there are tools on the market that have specialized XML diff merge features If you find one that works especially well please let us know because it would be a big help for several file types including Visual Studio s proj files DavidKean_MS Moderator Q 151 Any idea if nStatic like features will
11. asked the experts have not been able to create work item custom contols even after installing the patch ans see that the same problem is being faced by many others as stated in the forum its there any document link that details th process or fix for these issues Hassan asked the experts we work from different domains on our organisation now we want to have 1 centralize TFS repository how can we sync the code between the different groups of teams on 1 TFS Michael_Giag asked the experts So if we use Orcas TFS Beta 1 in production we re hosed going forward raj asked the experts i guess was t clear Why do have to use the non supported TFS admin tool to manage users this should be a part of the Visual studio TFS client IMHO does this change in the next release Kevin asked the experts Can you let me know Rob Caron s blog address Thank you in advance Ishroop is there any SDK that details what is going on in DB after every operation that is performed in backed so that we can do some modification there is the need be this SDK would help make the things very stable and handy understand the risk though InfantryBlue asked the experts RE 68 for example Sharepoint has lists and events that can be setup and shown Can these items be shown in the Team Explorer or must all developers venture out into SharePoint to view all the Items lists that the PM sets up David Moye asked the experts s there a set of guidance on h
12. at the end of last year and in a chat at that time december someone indicated Already fixed An update is coming soon maybe in the next Q guess it got delayed Eagerly awaiting A Ah yes think remember We delayed it so that we could get most of the fixes changes that were going to make into Orcas into FxCop It is coming promise RichardBerg MS Expert Q 92 Any ideas what the upgrade migration path will beta from TFS Orcas Beta to TFS Orcas RTM A It will be fully supported so long as you re starting from Orcas Beta 2 Dennis MS Expert Q 84 in TFS work items cannot be deleted are we doing something about it in next release A There will be support on the server for this in Orcas but no client tool will exist out of the box The plan is to create a powertool to access this functionality shortly after Orcas is released jboyle_msft Expert Q 65 I m new to TFS and was wondering if there are any good webcasts out there that show you how to work with the source control that comes with TFS am a ClearCase user but from what have seen so far in TFS it s source control system is much different A You can see some videos on channel 9 http channel9 msdn com tags vsts or you can check out the walkthroughs on MSDN http msdn2 microsoft com en us library ms181279 VS 80 aspx AaronHallberg MS Expert Q 102 Within Windows Vista Is Orcas going to allow developers to work productively without requiring
13. be added to code analysis A While haven t yet played around with nStatic I don t believe it has been released we are looking at doing a lot more advanced analysis in a future version of Visual Studio Tan_MS Expert Q 195 Currently in the Pending Changes window can select a WI query but apparently only the filter is used it would be nice if query columns were displayed in the pending changes window think would help resolve Q 141 as well A This has been considered since V1 but it continues to slip below the radar Thank you for the suggestion dgorena_MS Expert Q 110 Is there a set of guidance on how to effectively use Team Test as a QA person A Hi David If you have specific questions about anything let us know here or by using our forums There are books that talk about those topics as well and you can find them here http msdn2 microsoft com en us teamsystem aa718829 aspx SmithaS MS Expert Q 199 was not able to install the work item custom controls Can any one confirm me that the latest version of client dll is 8 0 0 0 A Current but make sure you have TFS SP1 installed DavidKean_ MS Moderator Q 193 get the following error when run reports how can eliminate it Cannot impersonate user for data source TfsOlapReportDS rsErrorlmpersonatingUser A Can you post this over on the MSDN Forums http forums microsoft com MSDN ShowForum aspx ForumID 480 amp SitelD 1 It
14. changes window think would help resolve Q 141 as well Michael_ Giag ben well yes of course just dont put it there c But if you want it to say press enter to coninute Ctrl F5 automatically does that think Ishroop asked the experts How can we restrict work item creation based on a user role Philip Stears ben2004uk can t you redirect the output to the output window and just read it from that rather than keeping the console window open ben2004uk Cheers Ctrl is what was after Keith Hill From the command line execute tf status r user to see who has what checked out Hassan asked the experts Is the plan to release Orcas Visual Studio and Orcas TFS at the same time If yes when David Moye asked the experts To Q 178 searched amazon just now for books that have visual studio testers in the keywords and of the 17 results none was a book on VS for Testers There are lots of all in 1 s but none of them is describes best practices for Vs Software Testers Michael_Giag philip yea but remember output window sometimes is crowed with other stuff no Ishroop asked the experts was not able to install the work item custom controls Can any one confirm me that the latest version of client dll is 8 0 0 0 Philip Stears Michael good point but mostly clear the module load info out at the start Philip Stears Keith thanks Michael_Giag asked the experts Pending changes windows Can you please make the c
15. is a Filter by Solution button on the tool window toolbar Just toggle that AaronHallberg MS Expert Q 19 What about in a single team build compiling 2 solutions perform a custom action a target between 1st solution compile and 2nd solution compile A In Orcas we have added Before After CompileSolution targets that you can override to do this sort of thing If you want the logic to execute only between specific solutions you might need to make the logic conditional on the name of the solution being compiled RichardBerg MS Expert Q 20 would like to be able to associate a comment and or work item when checkout code but it seems that my only option is at checkin time Is that correct Any plans for that A Correct While this was a longtime feature of SourceSafe very few people have requested it in TFS An alternative is to use Shelving which lets you store not only comments but also work items checkin notes etc MadhuriG_MS Expert Q 15 On TFS is it possible easy to create your own build number format when running builds A Yes it is possible to customize the build number using a custom task Please refer to http msdn2 microsoft com en us library aa395241 VS 80 aspx for reference on how to do it in Whidbey The process for Orcas is the same StevenPo MSFT Expert Q 12 Will code coverage for Stored procedures be implemented in Orcas A believe the team is looking into whether this can be provide
16. live for Ling A our beta2 go live plans are not yet finalized kkelly_ms Expert Q 213 If we build our own windows web client tool for TFS will we stil need the client licanse for TFS A yees RichardBerg MS Expert Q 215 I m a caveman Will TFS be easy enough for me to use A answered via audience feature let s see if it works dgorena_MS Expert Q 188 Where can get the Spec user manual of VSTS A I m not really sure what you mean by the Spec user manual but take a look here you will find resources to learn more about VSTS http msdn2 microsoft com en us teamsystem aa718791 aspx Dennis MS Expert Q 216 Any new Controls to be added to work items For example a Add control which adds two fields together I E 5 5 gt 10 or 5 5 gt 25 A No there are no plans to add any new control types out of the box It is possible to write a custom control for this though DavidKean_ MS Moderator This was a great chat Thank you to everyone for attending Just a reminder that we have another chat this afternoon between 4 5pm Pacific Time Keren MS Expert Q 172 Is there anyway to add a subscribe checkbox to a mantis issue where users can add remove themselves from the DL for that bug The TFS alerts only allow users to get notif ed on the bugs assigned to them too limited will this change next release A Ways of subscribing will change in next releases since we got a lot of customer feedback I
17. might be a little easier to diagnose there then in this chat kkelly_ms Expert Q 197 Is the plan to release Orcas Visual Studio and Orcas TFS at the same time If yes when A yes both VS IDE and TFS are planned to releaes together Q4 of this calendar year PaulS MS Expert Q 178 PaulS MS Yes am looking for best practices on VSTS for Testers right now it seems really spotty and the documentation is fairly sparse A Another place to look is in the VS Team System blogs There are some good posts that address best practices Tan_MS Expert Q 200 Pending changes windows Can you please make the column headers sort on click 9 A think you mean the work item channel in the Pending Changes window I ll file your request Thank you jboyle_msft Expert Q 190 see two different answers for Q 130 understand the go live license but please clarify my question is about the migration path not the go live license want to know if at any point will need to throw away and reinstall A Let me address the confusion Upgrade from Whidbey to Orcas Beta1 is NOT supported Ugrade from Whidbey to Orcas Beta2 will be supported We will also support upgrade from Orcas Beta1 to Beta2 up through RTM MattMitrik MSFT Expert Q 194 Is there any tools to convert Mercury Test Director to Team Foundation Server A There is at least one tool that provides some integration between Test Director and TFS created by a thi
18. n chat zazzylink but i got error message about firewall raj asked the experts When view pending checkins see the pending items of all projects am working on How can limit that to only the project am working on zazzylink i disabbled it but it still wont work Matt V asked the experts Is future support planned for TFVC file and or file content search Sheila Shovlin asked the experts Where can we find instructions to automatically assign a bug to a user based on the Area it s put in Wade asked the experts In future release will there be a way to create a sub task Parent Child Relationships Jeff Lynch asked the experts Does the TFS Orcas beta 1 build ship with the TFS 2005 Power Tools as part of it Matteo Emili What are the software that will have a more integration with future versions of TFS reiko hi Glacier asked the experts How can get baseline report automaticly by VSTS Keith Hill asked the experts TeamPlain rocks Will it be part of Orcas when it ships or will it be part of Rosario assume we ll have it as a PowerTool until then reiko hi reiko hi raj was told by someone at MS that TFS will break if we install the latest version of sharepoint services 3 0 When will this be fixed Hassan asked the experts Will Continous Integration builds in Orcas be as straight forward to create as Cl builds using CruiseControl NET Matteo Emili asked the experts What are the software that will have a mor
19. number format when running builds Glacier asked the experts how VSTS compitable with VS2003 raj asked the experts Are there any plans to add time tracking to TFS Kevin What books if any are out that you would recommend ben2004uk asked the experts heard but think am wrong that the Test Runner in Orcas was being opened up to allow open source xunit frameworks to be executed via the runner true or false Hassan asked the experts What about in a single team build compiling 2 solutions perform a custom action a target between 1st solution compile and 2nd solution compile ben2004uk raj is it not already there John Vottero asked the experts would like to be able to associate a comment and or work item when checkout code but it seems that my only option is at checkin time Is that correct Any plans for that Kevin asked the experts What books if any are out that you would recommend Michael_Giag asked the experts Are there any issues with any parts of VS on 64 bit Windows If so will Orcas address them completely zazzylink can anyone help me please Michael_Giag Please add time tracking Edith Russo asked the experts Is there a way to look at errors if a a workitemeventchange event is fired and it cannot invoke the web service subscribed Srikanth VSTS asked the experts At present Merge wizard does not support merge based on Workitems Will Orcas support this zazzylink i tried to log on to yahoo mail
20. part of the temporary build workspace Elegant Code asked the experts Will work items be hierarchical such that a backlog item can actually contain tasks rather than the tasks referencing the backlog item InfantryBlue asked the experts see you can extend VSTF items out to Windows SharePoint work items builds etc but there doesn t appear to be a way to extend SharePoint Docs and List back into the VSTF Is this possible If not will it be in a future version Philip Stears asked the experts Are there any plans to make it possible to execute unit tests as part of the build without having a full copy of Visual Studio for Devs Testers sat on the test machine Hassan asked the experts We need to integrate teams from outside our company This was a problem in first realaese of TFS Has this been addressed zazzylink asked the experts hello can anyone help me regarding the firewall block that i get when trying to log on to yahoo Michael C asked the experts Will Orcas allow the renaming of Team Projects Pablo asked the experts Is here any type of deployment support planned as an extension of teambuilds Phil asked the experts What would be the best reference for finding out how to write code that integrates information into TFS ex Want to be able to push Build Type information from a different system into the Build Jobs report As well as Work Item and Defect tracking Michael_Giag asked the experts Any guidance for testing complex distr
21. tested You can also do this by defining a transaction context in the Unit Test C code but the SQL Transaction is pretty easy MattMitrik MSFT Expert Q 144 Questions about migration In same CM database will be same peoject both in VSTS and VSS can be missing A Can you please clarify l m not sure what you are asking about VSS and VSTS projects What are you referring to by CM Dennis MS Expert Q 98 They have idea to connect TFS in Project Server 2003 A This is a feature that is being investigated though it is unlikely there will be a solution in the Orcas timeframe iboyle_msft Expert Q 117 Are there going to be any more team project templates shipped with Orcas Team System out of the box e g Scrum A Currently we are leveraging partners to add additional templates there are several scrum templates available today We will continue to update MSF agile and CMMI sudhirh_ MS Expert Q 124 Where can find detailed documentation on TFS s Deployment features A Do you want to know about setup and deployment options for TFS Setup RichardBerg MS Expert Q 153 Richard the test cases you store in source control they aren t included in your solution are they A They are not included in the same solution as the product code no They have an entire top level tree to themselves two trees if you count unit tests Keep in mind we have thousands of projects solutions and much of our code doesn t u
22. this does not answer your questions RichardBerg MS Expert Q 91 Where should we be keeping our test cases in TFS We currently have a red x on the Documents folder which goes back to the privileges question asked earlier should they be in there Is there a best practice for how to store these in TFS A We store ours in version control That makes the most sense for us because Gwe rely on branching heavily b many or most of our testcases are automated You can use the sharepoint Documents library if that makes more sense for you For help on fixing the red X please post on the forums or contact support kkelly_ms Expert Q 94 for intersection mean A that have something XP x64 and WS2003 for example in common with B How can manage it A Two alternatives 1 use ifdef statements in your source and then conditionally compile and build generating seperate build targets 2 factor platform speciife components into their own branches of the source code tree VSTS support both Dennis MS Expert Q 131 How to integration TFS in MOSS development A There is no suport for Sharepoint 3 0 in the VS 2005 release though a patch is available thru customer support with some caveats Testing against MOSS has been limited but what was done was successful We do not expose any additional features but new projects can be created and the Team Explorer Documents node functions correctly dgorena_MS Expert Q 138 wha
23. this workaround http geekswithblogs net thibbard articles HowToCreateAT eamFoundationServerGroup ThatCanHaveTas ksAssignedTolt aspx Pablo Is here any type of deployment support planned as an extension of teambuils Ishroop asked the experts Can a work item be assigned to more than one user or to a group Dave McKinstry evelardiez just verified a TS Rocks video on Vista and received an audio codec error Is this your issue as well I ll talk to the TeamSystemRocks admin and see if they have an answer if you can veriy the problem you re having Edith Russo asked the experts Q 23 Is there a way to look at errors if a a workitemeventchange event is fired and it cannot invoke the web service subscribed don t see any errors in the event log I ve enabled trace level 3 Any other ways David Moye Rajesh ask the experts Matteo Emili asked the experts s possible to connect Proclarity to TS Keith Hill asked the experts Any chance we could get early access to PowerShell support via a Power Tools drop AnthonyH asked the experts I m new to TFS and was wondering if there are any good webcasts out there that show you how to work with the source control that comes with TFS am a ClearCase user but from what have seen so far in TFS it s source control system is much different Chris Tullier asked the experts How do replace a file such as the web config during the team build process The file is locked during build because it s
24. to put branches e g Proj Branches A No the permission model isn t changing in Orcas the only new permission is Destroy Dennis MS Expert Q 171 need to access sharepoint out of TFS web service can do this A Yes though TFS doesn t provide proxies for SharePoint web services we simply consume the existing web services that SharePoint provides You can do the same thing we only use publicly accessible calls for our integration dgorena_MS Expert Q 154 Can i use Excel instead of Word for my manual tests if so how A Hello We currently do not support this scenario Manual tests are either Word based or text based but we don t have Excel manual tests do have to say though that you should expect surprises in our future versions our manual tests are going to be cool DavidKean MS Moderator We have 15 minutes remaining on the chat Get those last minute questions in jboyle_msft Expert Q 95 creation of Team Project with spaces gives problems by vieuwing reports on the team portal any idea why A No haven t seen that have you tried the forums to get assistance with this http forums microsoft com MSDN default aspx ForumGroupID 5 amp SitelD 1 kkelly_ms Expert Q 184 am setting a TFS proxy at an off shore location The proxy server and primary TFS server are in domains that have no trust relationship How can make this work A the proxy server and tfs server must have a trust rel
25. we are looking into it for the next release after Orcas MadhuriG_MS Expert Q 69 Are there any plans to make it possible to execute unit tests as part of the build without having a full copy of Visual Studio for Devs Testers sat on the test machine A In Orcas there will be no change in this regard The build machine will require a full copy of VS test suite to execute unit tests as part of the build sudhirh_ MS Expert Q 44 our developers are in one domain and TFS is in another and TFS won t authenticate the developers domain accounts even through we pulled those accounts into the TFS domain Any thoughts A It depends on the trust between these domains If you have 2 way trust between the domains it should work If there is one way trust you will face some issues with syncing If you pulled the accounts in TFS domain it should work You may need to re add the users to TFS Maybe the issue is with SIDs being changed when you moved them in TFS domain dgorena_MS Expert Q 18 heard but think am wrong that the Test Runner in Orcas was being opened up to allow open source xunit frameworks to be executed via the runner true or false A Hello I m not sure what you mean by the Test Runner but suppose you re talking about being able to use another unit framework such as NUnit within Visual Studio You can do that today you have different options such as creating a new test type or using the NUnit conversion tool i
26. we expect any more work item controls to be released or any patches for the existing issues in work item controls A We will look to include things like work items control in future power tool releases For more about this and the roadmap in general see this post http blogs msdn com bharry archive 2007 04 05 update on team foundation server roadmap aspx Dennis MS Expert Q 162 Is there a site or blog that explains the plugin generation for TFS process templates like group permission plug in A m not sure understand the question If you want to create your own plugin for PCW there is a sample in the VS SDK kkelly_ms Expert Q 180 Is TFS having any integration with dev partners A yes we do qute a bit through our visua studio integration program VSIP MattMitrik MSFT Expert Q 116 is there any SDK that details what is going on in DB after every operation that is performed in backed so that we can do some modification there is the need be this SDK would help make the things very stable and handy understand the risk though A No there are no details on the internal DB operations We strongly recommend that you do not modify anything on the backend and doing so is not supported by MS What are you trying to do that you cannot acheive with the published OM RichardBerg MS Expert Q 155 Not directly team system related but how is VS NET going to make concurrent programming easier Like Parallel LINQ
27. 04 14 Configuring Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server with InfoPeter Regarding build types is it possible to build my unmanged code with my NET pieces is ita good idea to have the two mixed in one build type Elegant Code asked the experts Re Team plain for scrum No We are talking about something more like a desktop with widgets like 3X5 cards that you can move around This would represent work items ben2004uk Little question Where is ObjectDumper in Orcas Beta Ishroop asked the experts Is there a site or blog that explains the plugin generation for TFS process templates like group permission plug in Philip Stears asked the experts Going back to unit testing on the test server requiring a full VS Test Dev install does this require its own license or can you re use one that a dev uses for day to day work otherwise this is a significant extra cost Shaun asked the experts Can TFS help me save money on my car insurance raj Shaun lol ben2004uk Elegant Code I ve been investigating this looking a creating a app for it Glacier asked the experts To question 144 a project has been migaration form VSS to VSTS After some SCM event on VSTS for this project running migaration again Will the old project CM data copy the one on VSTS ben2004uk Shaun Oh yes Elegant Code lol gieko Michael _Giag Shaun yes Using VSTS reduces frustration which reduces your chances of getting into an accident Shaun femi aske
28. Ling Philip Stears If it had the old source control provider model built in we could at least use TFS using the TFS backward compatability provider ben2004uk its not only designers as developers can access blend via msdn Michael Giag yea but at least WPF with Expression is lightyears beyond what we get with WinForms and Photoshop Ishroop asked the experts If we build our own windows web client tool for TFS will we stil need the client licanse for TFS raj asked the experts please make it easier to checkout by Label When select type Label please list all the labels for that solution automatically Michael Giag ben but devs will have VS installed and cn check em out themselves Philip Stears agree but safety ranks above nicety Shaun asked the experts I m a caveman Will TFS be easy enough for me to use Michael Giag well theres no safety risk they simply can t edit the files Dave McKinstry Re WSS 2 0 and WSS 3 0 in Orcas know that wasn t WSE question I ve heard the answer is yes but I m NOT on the MS product team You might try re asking the question to the experts Michael Giag heck without a TFS client they cant even get the files in teh first place Philip Stears lol good point Philip Stears So much for faciliating easier developer designer workflow eh gS TScott asked the experts Any new Controls to be added to work items For example a Add control which adds two fields together I E 5 5 gt
29. S Expert Q 90 Thank you very much for the list of Every book available but my question was more about any particular books that would be singled out as the book to get Are there any books that you would recommend to get A Sorry haven t read a broad enough cross section of them to make a good recommendation would contact Rob Caron thru his blog Tan_MS Expert Q 56 What we would like to see is a common gui to perform all these operations The way it is now we have the tfs client the tf command the TFS process template the TFS administration tool the third party TFS sidekicks Can we have one tool for all ofthese A Not aware of one VS is probably the closest one SmithaS MS Expert Q 80 On the BisSubscribe question adding a list of users to a DL for a mantis issue where am going in the Bug template editor to do this Thanks A Bug template editor Process template editor is not the right tool to do bissubscribe The link has one example http blogs msdn com psheill archive 2006 02 01 522386 aspx sudhirh_ MS Expert Q 76 Please add my vote to making PowerShell support available in a PowerTools drop earlier If had to wait until post Rosario that would really bite A We will see what we can do Currently this is not planned but will try to add this as a request for our next powertool release Thanks for the input DavidKean_ MS Moderator Q 89 On my rule exceptions posted some
30. S will break if we install the latest version of sharepoint services 3 0 When will this be fixed A This will be fixed in Orcas beta 2 RichardBerg MS Expert Q 38 What is the future for SourceSafe A The short answer is there are no new versions planned only servicing will blog more details of the servicing roadmap as I m able http blogs msdn com richardb RichardBerg MS Expert Q 42 yes TeamPlain rocks A Thanks AaronHallberg MS Expert Q 43 Is there any way or will there be any way to get the user name who changed the Build Quality status of a a build A Not really we do keep track of the user who last updated the build but not specifically the user who updates the build quality Keren MS Expert Q 23 Is there a way to look at errors if a a workitemeventchange event is fired and it cannot invoke the web service subscribed A Your best bet is looking at event viewer log on the Application Tier You can also increase tracing level using web config file to get more info on the error SmithaS MS Expert Q 27 Where can we find instructions to automatically assign a bug to a user based on the Area it s put in A One wasy can think of achieving this is extending WIT OM http msdn2 microsoft com en us library bb130347 VS 80 aspx http blogs msdn com narend archive 2006 09 1 5 756158 aspx jboyle_msft Expert Q 37 What is best practice for setting up user privileges in TFS
31. Visual Studio Team System Chat April 27 2007 10 00 AM Join members of the Visual Studio Team System product group to discuss features available in Visual Studio Team Foundation Server Team Editions for Architects Developers Database Pros and Testers In addition discuss what s new in the latest Community Technology Preview CTP Answers from the Experts BhavikS MS Expert BhavikS Hi All work as Tester on Team Build team RichardBerg MS Expert Michael you can ask questions about general VS features but we might not know the answer AaronHallberg MS Expert A I m a developer on Team Build For Orcas mostly worked on the OM the MSBuild targets and tasks etc RichardBerg MS Expert I m Richard work on TFS version control kkelly_ms Expert Hi I m a program manager on the Version Control system of TFS I d love to hear reactions to FolderDiff Annotate and the work we did to make TFS work a little like SourceSafe with the GetLatestOnCheckout property MadhuriG_MS Expert Welcome everyone am Madhuri an SDET in the TeamBuild team RichardBerg MS Expert and SourceSafe if anyone still uses that dgorena_ MS Expert Hello everyone I m David an SDET in Visual Studio Team System edition for Testers My pleasure to be here today Dennis MS Expert Hello I m a developer working on the client parts of Team Foundation Server specifically project creation deletion Team Explorer Work Item Tracking a
32. an create similar new fields There is no global space where you can keep it and have all the templates use it but you need to add it to each template which needs it MattMitrik MSFT Expert Q 130 What about a migration path from the Orcas Betas to RTM Will there be one A Yes The supported path will be from Beta 1 to Beta 2 to RTM DavidKean_ MS Moderator Q 134 Will a link to this chat thread be posted somewhere after it stops A Transcripts usually get published within the week Keep a watch out on http msdn2 microsoft com en us chats bb149288 aspx duncand_ms Expert Q 129 With a large db schema in DB Pro it s just extremely time consuming to build and deploy the entire thing to test one small SP change despite that admittedly being the best practice Any chance of two right click menu SP gt Deploy local Deploy custom A We understand the interest in partial deployments and we re looking at ways to do this in a way that assures we have consistency That having been said if the only change made to a project is a Stored Procedure then doing an Incremenatl Build Always Recreate Project is UNchecked should just deploy the objects that have been changed between the target and the project AaronHallberg MS Expert Q 138 what recommendation do you have for implementing continuous integration on 2005 in a way that primes us for an easy migration to Orcas A Duplicate Can t really give you much advice h
33. ate on that yet sudhirh_ MS Expert Q 58 Was TFS Orcas installation more easy than TFS today A We have tried to make some improvements We have tried to make WSS 3 0 support more flexible Now you just have one installer for dual and singler server installations You can use SQL NAmed instances So there are definitely improvements It is our goal to make is much more simpler and going forward AaronHallberg MS Expert Q 15 On TFS is it possible easy to create your own build number format when running builds A In general you will want to do this by authoring a custom task and plugging it into the BuildNumberOverrideTarget There should be an example of this on my blog at http blogs msdn com aaronhallberg RichardBerg MS Expert Q 83 and talking about marketing for example will be possible saving everything regards a project documents slides videos in vsts A This is already possible assuming your marketing guys are willing to use either Sharepoint or TeamPlain As a slight tangent one thing people have asked for is mirroring between the Sharepoint docs and the TFS version control repository This is now possible at least in theory with the new TFS Migration Toolkit http Awww codeplex com MigrationSyncToolkit PaulS MS Expert Q 51 Is there are way to associate a single unit test with more than one test list A After you have your test lists created you see them in the left pane of the Test Manager w
34. ationship we have features coming in beta2 that enable the proxy server to be exposed on the extranet ak MSFT Expert Q 159 TFS provides two process templates can we expect any more templates to be published in the near future A We do not have plans to ship addtional templates There are several partners that provide addtional templates for Team System SmithaS MS Expert Q 191 how can we safely delete work items from backend any document on that A Here is one http blogs msdn com narend archive 2006 10 17 deleting workitems aspx AaronHallberg MS Expert Q 186 When a team build is kicked off the output files are copied to a lt Builderserver dir gt lt build name gt Binaries directory on the build server What performs this copy have a VC project that doesn t copy and files there and fails the link A Team Build overrides the OutDir property that MSBuild uses to determine where to place the final outputs of compiling For C projects this is slightly complicated Team Build generates a vsprops file that overrides the output directory for the VC projects that are built If you continue running into issues here please post a question on the Team Build forums at http forums microsoft com MSDN ShowForum aspx Forum ID 481 amp SitelID 1 PaulS MS Expert Q 178 PaulS MS Yes am looking for best practices on VSTS for Testers right now it seems really spotty and the documentation is fairly sparse A
35. atteo have done this before and the code is relatively short but not necessarily easy to find Ishroop asked the experts how can we safely delete work items from backend any document on that Matteo Emili dave could you send anything to me Philip Stears asked the experts Are there any plans to add more intelligent merging support for example XML files that haven t really changed but have been re ordered should be relatively easy to auto merge Dave McKinstry OmarV The question was asked earlier The answer there is no technical reason but there is also no promise that it will work If someone adopts at beta 1 the migration and any related support issues is purely their problem and on their nickel Sheila Shovlin asked the experts get the following error when I run reports how can eliminate it Cannot impersonate user for data source TfsOlapReportDS rsErrorlmpersonatingUser Michael Giag Dave yea where nickle 250 an hour or something elamir hey all Hassan asked the experts Is there any tools to convert Mercury Test Director to Team Foundation Server elamir Pow ru there reiko David Moye hassan yes there is ben2004uk Is there a way to run a console app without having to put Console ReadLine at the end OmarV asked the experts Currently in the Pending Changes window can select a WI query but apparently only the filter is used it would be nice if query columns were displayed in the pending
36. best practices on VSTS for Testers right now it seems really spotty and the documentation is fairly sparse leifw asked the experts Is a release of FxCop planned to coincide with the RTM of Orcas What classes of code analysis with TFS include that FxCop won t Ishroop Is TFS having any integration with dev partners Ishroop asked the experts ls TFS having any integration with dev partners Shaun asked the experts Thank you Keren_MS have alot of people that ask about this feature Matteo Emili asked the experts Q 167 Is there a way to integrate TFS Alerts into Windows Live Messenger Alerts Ok the answer is no but with Communications Server David Moye asked the experts Are there any plans to extend alerts to things like only alert me on checkins in the following folder area iteration discipline whatever elamir zazzy elamir where are u Hassan asked the experts am setting a TFS proxy at an off shore location The proxy server and primary TFS server are in domains that have no trust relationship How can make this work Ishroop A Us too We have the same problem internally It is being considered for a future release what issues you are facing with dublicate work items as stated Glacier asked the experts If the code files are be packed to rar file can TFS show the code difference about these RAR files TopCat asked the experts When a team build is kicked off the output files are copied to a lt Builderserver dir gt
37. d Eagerly awaiting reiko who can chat with me help reiko Kevin asked the experts Thank you very much for the list of Every book available but my question was more about any particular books that would be singled out as the book to get Are there any books that you would recommend to get Sheila Shovlin asked the experts Where should we be keeping our test cases in TFS We currently have a red x on the Documents folder which goes back to the privileges question asked earlier should they be in there Is there a best practice for how to store these in TFS Hassan creation of Team Project with spaces gives problems by vieuwing reports on the team portal any idea why ben2004uk asked the experts Any ideas what the upgrade migration path will beta from TFS Orcas Beta to TFS Orcas RTM Philip Stears asked the experts Is it possible to use a third party unit testing framework but still get code coverage information from a build Matteo Emili asked the experts for intersection mean A that have something XP x64 and WS2003 for example in common with B How can manage it Hassan asked the experts creation of Team Project with spaces gives problems by vieuwing reports on the team portal any idea why timhibbard Kevin Professional Team Foundation Server is the book Sheila Shovlin reiko just click Ask the Expert with your question and it will eventually pop up with an answer in the top window don t cry Is
38. d as a power tool but it will not be an integrated feature in the Orcas timeframe It is under consideration for the follow up release Dennis MS Expert Q 11 have single server installation of Sharepoint 2003 with tfs upgraded to SP 2007 and now can t connect to my TFS to make a project Do need to re install or is there a doc that explains what to do A SharePoint 2007 is not supported with the VS 2005 release of TFS though it is fully supported in the Orcas release There is a patch to make it work available thru customer support but if you upgraded you will have problems with servicing ie repair will not work on the AT because it will be looking for WSS 2 0 to be installed and it will fail You will need to call customer support to get this resolved RichardBerg MS Expert Q 24 At present Merge wizard does not support merge based on Workitems Will Orcas support this A No sorry this is not in Orcas jboyle_msft Expert Q 28 In future release will there be a way to create a sub task Parent Child Relationships A This is planned for a future release it is not in Orcas RichardBerg MS Expert Q 26 Is future support planned for TFVC file and or file content search A It s on the list of things we d like to do in the future It won t make it into Orcas unfortunately It might be a Power Tool a Rosario feature or something beyond that RichardBerg MS Expert Q 29 Does the TFS Orcas beta 1 bui
39. d the experts What are your plans for implementing a Test case Management system raj Matteo Emili ahahahaha elamir hi all Shaun asked the experts Is there a way to integrate TFS Alerts into Windows Live Messenger Alerts Michael Giag You laugh but it s true VS has saved marriages helped families transformed lives Not many other products occupy millions of peoples minds for 60 hours a week think about it David Moye asked the experts d also like to see an answer to femi s re Test Case Management Philip Stears It has saved the remainder of my hair after some serious SourceSafe mishaps raj asked the experts is it possible to auto exclude the bin folder from being checked in when checking in a solution for the first time ben2004uk I think Soma was taking about after Orcas for Test Case Management Keith Hill asked the experts The Branching Guidance site on CodePlex http www codeplex com BranchingGuidance is really great stuff We ve need this sort of best practice guidance in the TFS community Keep up the good work Ishroop asked the experts need to access sharepoint out of TFS web service can do this Ed Are there any examples on how to use TFS build for VB6 and VC6 projects Yes VB6 is still living on Shaun TFS is so easy a caveman can use it Michael Giag 3x5 scrum cards with TFS Sounds trivial to do with WPF and TFS 9 Sheila Shovlin asked the experts Is there anyway to add a subscrib
40. e checkbox to a mantis issue where users can add remove themselves from the DL for that bug The TFS alerts only allow users to get notified on the bugs assigned to them too limited will this change next release Chris Tullier asked the experts How do move the Team Build scripts from a root folder into a sub folder within source control and still have Team Explorer pick them up Ishroop can we expect any more work item controls to be released or any patches for the existing issues in work item controls Matteo Emili asked the experts Will Wxpression Blend integrated with VS Maybe even in a Visual Studio Team Edition for Designer Ishroop asked the experts can we expect any more work item controls to be released or any patches for the existing issues in work item controls Hassan asked the experts By creating A Team project i have to configure the accounts for this project on 3 levels Groups on TFS Sharepoint and on the Reports site Is there a way to do that once for all this three steps WITHIUT USING TFSADMIN TOOL Michael_Giag asked the experts TFS does not support active passive clustering for SQL server huh Since when do we have to license a passive SQL node At least VL SA customer do not need to pay for passive licenses leifw Is a release of FxCop planned to coincide with the RTM of Orcas What classes of code analysis with TFS include that FxCop won t David Moye asked the experts PaulS MS Yes am looking for
41. e experts comment like the idea of linking a duplicate work item to the original Matteo Emili asked the experts and talking about marketing for example will be possible saving everything regards a project documents slides videos in vsts Ishroop asked the experts in TFS work items cannot be deleted are we doing something about it in next release RobertHorvick MSFT Expert InfantryBlue can you explain a little more about what you are asking for Do you mean that you want WSS documents and lists to be able to be stored in TFS version control and workitem tracking Or another scenario Terry asked the experts Can TeamPlain be deployed in a way in order to use it to provide limited and secure access to TFS for external customers If so what is the recommended deployment evelardiez asked the experts How to migration TFS to TFS Orcas David Moye asked the experts Team Test seems geared towared developers not testers could be missing something but don t know QA folks that think it s useful enough to use Are there any books references best practices that can read to understand how to integrate the testers ben2004uk asked the experts Are there any new unit test features in the pipeline Trevor asked the experts On my rule exceptions posted some at the end of last year and in a chat at that time december someone indicated Already fixed An update is coming soon maybe in the next Q guess it got delaye
42. e experts will we have the possibility of managing projects with intersections in orcas or rosario raj asked the experts ves TeamPlain rocks sean asked the experts s there any way or will there be any way to get the user name who changed the Build Quality status of a a build garth asked the experts our developers are in one domain and TFS is in another and TFS won t authenticate the developers domain accounts even through we pulled those accounts into the TFS domain Any thoughts Keith Hill asked the experts When will we get PowerShell support in TFS The ability to do queries in PowerShell is really nice and it would be a natural fit with the TFS version control and work item data Glacier asked the experts Would like leave your E mail here All expert Len asked the experts I ve just been put in charge of developing the deployment package for our software product I m used Wise for Windows but now understand that TFS has a built in Windows Installer Compliant deployment tool Where can get detailed documentation Thanx Trevor asked the experts The fxcop bugs are generally rule exceptions We have worked around some of them disabling rules but this is not ideal We have 100s of projects and it is hard to manage Verb asked the experts have two issues with VSTS for bug tracking When a bug is marked as a duplicate there doesn t appear to be a way to have it automatically generate a link to the bug that is or
43. e integration with future versions of TFS Trevor asked the experts Are there any updates coming to FxCop 1 35 It s been a long time since release and there are several bugs raj was told by someone at MS that TFS will break if we install the latest version of sharepoint services 3 0 When will this be fixed henry asked the experts Do you have any onsite support for setting up Team Build and Team system please proved contact info raj asked the experts was told by someone at MS that TFS will break if we install the latest version of sharepoint services 3 0 When will this be fixed Sheila Shovlin asked the experts What is best practice for setting up user privileges in TFS and by extension SharePoint and SQL Can you recommend a good set of instructions for this ben2004uk asked the experts What is the future for SourceSafe Sheila Shovlin asked the experts am trying to add a tab to the Bug template to subscribe a list of users to that particular bug upon a change addition removal to this DL Is this going to be possible with the BisSubscribe command or other or am headed for failure Michael_Giag asked the experts kkelly_ms haven t heard of anything more specific than that they are afraid of having to manage TFS and keep it running which they feel is going to require a lot of resources or be difficult Sheila Shovlin Get off source safe it stinks it s as slow as a dog when used remotely Matteo Emili asked th
44. el_Giag asked the experts know a software company that has about 10 or 20 employees involved in software dev They use SVN CVS Excel and a bit of Mantis Their software is almost 100 either Windows or Web They don t want to move to TFS because they re afraid it s too complex Michael_Giag asked the experts and they ll need lots of resources to maintain and care for TFS but ops already knows CVS What materials does MS have to help out here Sheila Shovlin asked the experts 1 Where can we find instructions to automatically assign a bug to a user based on the Area it s put in Glacier how VSTS compitable with VS2003 raj asked the experts How can permanently delete a folder in TFS source control Hassan asked the experts have single server installation of Sharepoint 2003 with tfs upgraded to SP 2007 and now can t connect to my TFS to make a project Do need to re install or is there a doc that explains what to do reiko anybody DavidKean_ MS Moderator Glacier Please ask your question to experts Srikanth VSTS asked the experts Will code coverage for Stored procedures be implemented in Orcas Jeff Lynch asked the experts 1 Just to clarify Will the Power Tool version be available during the TFS Orcas Beta 1 timeframe sean asked the experts What updates if any will be required to my custom targets and tasks when Orcas is released femi asked the experts On TFS is it possible easy to create your own build
45. er could use it Matteo Emili microsoft everyday on the top Philip Stears Indeed thanks for some great info and keep up the good work henry moderator what will this afternoon chat be about Dave McKinstry This has been fun Thanks MS Experts ben2004uk One more does Team Plain work with Orcas Michael Giag For instance got this code snippet while true something Foo Yes and was asked I have this in my asp net page but the page just hangs Matteo Emili very very useful chat Ishroop yes and kidos fot the forum and support Hassan Thanks a lot for all of you Philip Stears Michael Is this from someone fireable Philip Stears I m usually quite forgiving but there are limits Michael Giag philip haha long time ago then he moved and got a governent sponorship in canada Michael _Giag Thank you very much for this chat and more importantly thank you very much for Visual Studio Matteo Emili is longhorn server beta 3 usable with orcas beta 1 Chat Topic Open Peer to Peer Technical Chat in Progress
46. ere there are Cl solutions for 2005 but we don t have upgrade paths from any of them to Orcas You could download the Beta to try out the Orcas Cl features we would appreciate any feedback you might have here DavidKean_ MS Moderator Q 30 How can get baseline report automaticly by VSTS A Can you provide more information What feature are you trying to use jboyle_msft Expert Q 130 What about a migration path from the Orcas Betas to RTM Will there be one A For TFS Beta is for evaluation purposes only We expect to make Beta2 go live and will support upgrades from Beta2 through to RC and RTM SmithaS MS Expert Q 132 The link control in TFS cannot be made readonly or required based on system state atribute is there any work around A Sorry currently there is no workaround to make it required based on a field value sudhirh_ MS Expert Q 105 we work from different domains on our organisation now we want to have 1 centralize TFS repository how can we sync the code between the different groups of teams on 1 TFS A am sorry did not get the question Are you using TFS in each domain already that you want to consolidate That is not possible direclty You will be able to do with some form of copy that will not retain your history If you are talking about just using TFS Centrally for multi domain environment That should be possible if you have 2 way trust between your domain forests Please let me know if
47. f you re specifically talking about NUnit but we don t have anything new for Orcas in this area AaronHallberg MS Expert Q 73 Is here any type of deployment support planned as an extension of teambuilds A We don t have any plans to incorporate this in Orcas but are certainly considering it for a future release RichardBerg MS Expert Q 64 Any chance we could get early access to PowerShell support via a Power Tools drop A We don t have anything nearly ready to drop yet And can t promise that we ever will it s just hallway chat and random untested toys ATM Please contact us me amp James offline thru our blogs Tan_MS Expert Q 79 wat about sub workitems creation in next version of vsts A Work item linking is in Orcas jboyle_msft Expert Q 77 Are there any plans for adding project level atributes on TeamProjects A We recognize the need for that and are looking at that for a future release Is there a specific set of attributes you are looking for Dennis MS Expert Q 67 Will work items be hierarchical such that a backlog item can actually contain tasks rather than the tasks referencing the backlog item A This won t be in the Orcas release but it is being considered for the following release MattMitrik MSFT Expert Q 63 Is possible to connect Proclarity to TS A I m not very familiar with Proclarity but if there are artifacts that would make sense if stored in TFS the you c
48. g the product in an unlicensed mannet cannot comment on the legality of that merely point to what the license says Good luck AaronHallberg MS Expert Q 114 what recommendation do you have for implementing Cl on 2005 in a way that primes us for an easy migration to Orcas A Can t really give you much advice here there are Cl solutions for 2005 but we don t have upgrade paths from any of them to Orcas You could download the Beta to try out the Orcas Cl features we would appreciate any feedback you might have here dgorena_MS Expert Q 118 have been looking in to the unit test functionality but all of the examples and videos that have found are all CSharp Most of our apps are C so these examples don t help that much is there anything out there that demostrates using C A Hi Anthony understand the problem here and agree with you we should definitely provide more examples in all languages MSDN generally tries to provide examples in several languages but if you can t find what you re looking for encourage you to post to our forums we will be more than happy to provide you the specific examples that you need in C http forums microsoft com msdn SmithaS MS Expert Q 125 In TFS can we override modify the work item fields like system status or the microsoft VSTS fields Or can we create such fields that can be used by all team templates A System fields are not allowed to be modified but you c
49. have the tfs client the tf command the TFS process template the TFS administration tool the third party TFS sidekicks Can we have one tool for all ofthese Sideout asked the experts s there a planned release date for DB Pro SR1 CTP Ishroop Can a work item be assigned to more than one user or to a group Tarifa Brazil They have a product or project to connect TFS in Project Server evelardiez asked the experts Was TFS Orcas installation more easy than TFS today InfoPeter Could you reccomend the best way to move bugs forward to future releases need to keep all history is the best way to use the copy command Edith Russo Q 23 Is there a way to look at errors if a a workitemeventchange event is fired and it cannot invoke the web service subscribed don t see any errors in the event log I ve enabled trace level 3 Any other ways Srikanth VSTS asked the experts Where can i find more information about CyclomaticComplexity feature in Orcas AnthonyH I m new to TFS and was wondering if there are any good webcasts out there that show you how to work with the source control that comes with TFS am a ClearCase user but from what have seen so far in TFS it s source control system is much different Elegant Code asked the experts One major complaint from our team is the difficulty of getting Cl and unit tests executing with MSBuild of TFS How have you ased that pain point timhibbard to assign a task to multiple users see
50. hroop asked the experts TFS does not support active passive clustering for SQL server because of this we had to buy two licenses of SQL and TFS would this feature be available in next release sean asked the experts lf this has already been asked ignore it and will find it in the log later but is there a planned release time frame for Orcas Tarifa BR asked the experts They have idea to connect TFS in Project Server 2003 Sheila Shovlin Will there be a link to all these questions answers later Shaun Within Windows Vista Is Orcas going to allow developers to work productively without requiring Administrative priviledges locally Pablo asked the experts What kind of changes are expected for the comming releases related to test case management In particular enhanced support for manual test case lifecycle and GUI automation Matteo Emili asked the experts When will ISO Images of Orcas will be available for public My colleagues are waiting Rajesh asked the experts Is there a refrence book for VSTS for Testers Shaun asked the experts Within Windows Vista Is Orcas going to allow developers to work productively without requiring Administrative priviledges locally jnapier Will inheritance be supported for test classes and will we be able to actually create test context values that span across multiple tests Matteo Emili asked the experts orcas client with whidbey what about it David Moye jnapier ask the experts Ishroop
51. ibuted applications For example we have some code that requires 2 databases and 3 other services to be running before it can do anything Some good examples from MS would be great Keith Hill asked the experts Please add my vote to making PowerShell support available in a PowerTools drop earlier If had to wait until post Rosario that would really bite Dave McKinstry Ishroop MSF doesn t support this It is possible to assign a WI to a group or simulate assignment to multiple individuals but it isn t pretty My understanding is that this was by design as multiple assignments tend to cause more problems than not Pablo asked the experts Are there any plans for adding project level atributes on TeamProjects Shaun asked the experts What is the best way for a developer to execute performance tests on LINQ within Visual Studio Codename Orcas Hassan asked the experts wat about sub workitems creation in next version of vsts Matteo Emili and talking about marketing for example will be possible saving everything regards a project documents slides videos in vsts Sheila Shovlin asked the experts On the BisSubscribe question adding a list of users to a DL fora mantis issue where am going in the Bug template editor to do this Thanks Philip Stears asked the experts Are there any enhancements to data driven unit tests in Orcas such as the ability to use XML data to drive the tests as opposed to a database Edith Russo asked th
52. iginal bug JSherman asked the experts 3 well the problem is that they aren t part of an integrated solution and most the time have nothing to do with each other at all Unfortunately it was setup in my company that each team can t create new projects thus they end up with sub projects reiko evelardiez why can i see team rocks videos on windows vista Rajesh Is there a reference book for Visual Studio team for testers Elegant Code One of the challengs we have experienced is an administration hurdle Will there be a united security model for the pieces that must work together TFS SharePoint and MSSQL Reporting Services Chris Tullier asked the experts Is there are way to associate a single unit test with more than one test list ben2004uk Is TeamPlain compatible with Orcas Keith Hill asked the experts Did you have to do anything special with CodeAnalysis in Orcas to support multiple versions of the NET Framework Ishroop when is the next release of TFS expected Matteo Emili asked the experts think that Portfolio Server will be a good step above David Moye asked the experts s there a good refernce or a set of best practices for VS Team Test Verb asked the experts Second issue Is there anyway to bulk edit a group of bugs within the VSTS client rather than exporting the bugs to something like Excel raj asked the experts What we would like to see is a common gui to perform all these operations The way it is now we
53. indow You can drag a test any kind unit Web etc from right pane into a test list Then click that list in the left pane to display its contents you see the test that you dragged into it Now press CTRL and drag that test into any other test list that you have The test is now in both lists MattMitrik MSFT Expert Q 74 What would be the best reference for finding out how to write code that integrates information into TFS ex Want to be able to push Build Type information from a different system into the Build Jobs report As well as Work Item and Defect tracking A To integrate with TFS version control and work item tracking you can use the toolkit released on CodePlex www codeplex com MigrationSyncToolkit There is no support for build at this time RichardBerg MS Expert Q 86 How to migration TFS to TFS Orcas A Our setup will take care of it Note migration to from Orcas Beta 1 is not supported yet Wait for Beta 2 to go live AaronHallberg MS Expert Q 93 Is it possible to use a third party unit testing framework but still get code coverage information from a build A Not straightforwardly You could certainly use the Team Build OM new in Orcas to populate the database with this information if you can retrieve it from the third party framework RobertHorvick MSFT Expert Q 68 see you can extend VSTF items out to Windows SharePoint work items builds etc but there doesn t appear to be a
54. is a report of test results that spans multiple builds good automation at the UI level etc Things that 3rd party tools have to do right now Are they any plans to really integrate QA Shaun asked the experts Regarding Team System Alerts Is there a plan to integrate these alerts into things like Windows Live Messenger either from a Windows Live ID perspective or through Live Communication Server Alot of my clients ask about this feature Len asked the experts Where can find detailed documentation on TFS s Deployment features Ishroop asked the experts In TFS can we override modify the work item fields like system status or the microsoft VSTS fields Or can we create such fields that can be used by all team templates Keith Hill asked the experts I m not sure if there are any MSBUILD folks on this chat but was disappointed to see in Orcas beta 1 that SLN and Setup project files are still NOT MSBUILD files SLN files don t diff well in TF version control because of the proj numbering Matteo Emili asked the experts biztalk and tfs integration what could you say about it reiko help Ronald Armas asked the experts what about improvements in requirements gathering and traceability evelardiez How to integration TFS in MOSS development Sideout asked the experts With a large db schema in DB Pro it s just extremely time consuming to build and deploy the entire thing to test one small SP change despite that admittedly being the bes
55. itesm can be exported to Excel or Microsoft projec But is there a way to export work ites to Microsoft Work Sheila Shovlin asked the experts Richard the test cases you store in source control they aren t included in your solution are they Chris Tullier asked the experts Can i use Excel instead of Word for my manual tests if so how Michael_Giag asked the experts Not directly team system related but how is VS NET going to make concurrent programming easier Like Parallel LINQ or easy ways to multithread certain loops etc Sheila Shovlin asked the experts We are having a number of issues b c our TFS server is managed by IT and us as developers are trying to determine peicemeal what we need them to give us access to Is there a link or quick set of instructions for SP TFS and SQL that we could give them Matteo Emili asked the experts Then Project 2007 in rosario right Hassan asked the experts According to question 105 we want to use TFS Centrally for multi domain environment That should be possible if you have 2 way trust between your domain forests what about code synchronisations on TFS Ishroop asked the experts TFS provides two process templates can we expect any more templates to be published in the near future Ed asked the experts am confused You seem to indicate that WSS 3 0 is not available until Orcas But this post gives instructions on how to install it now Comments http blogs msdn com briankel archive 2007
56. ld ship with the TFS 2005 Power Tools as part of it A No they are separate downloads dgorena_MS Expert Q 3 What is your recommended setup on a project by project basis for a large company with many developers working on MANY different projects that are unrelated A Hello This is not an easy question since different approaches have several pros cons From my own experience can say that having all projects together in a same solution give you the benefit of being able to build everything together and make sure that there is nothing broken in the whole solution But this approach has a big downside which is if there is a project breaking the solution everyone has to wait for this to be fixed Having different solutions depending on areas has this big benefit that everyone works on his area without breaking others Personally like this second approach better sudhirh_ MS Expert Q was told by someone at MS that TFS will break if we install the latest version of sharepoint services 3 0 When will this be fixed A Orcas will support WSS3 0 BhavikS MS Expert Q 32 Will Continous Integration builds in Orcas be as straight forward to create as Cl builds using CruiseControl NET A In Orcas Cl is very well integreated scenario with the product and will be supported out of box You will have support for Schedule Build also out of box jboyle_msft Expert Q 5 What about Rosario integration with Office Portfoli
57. lip Stears asked the experts Are there going to be any more team project templates shipped with Orcas Team System out of the box e g Scrum AnthonyH asked the experts have been looking in to the unit test functionality but all of the examples and videos that have found are all CSharp Most of our apps are C so these examples don t help that much is there anything out there that demostrates using C garth asked the experts I d like to add a code verification step to a build can someone suggest a good link to information on how to do this i m think FXcop or the like raj asked the experts sorry if this was answered already cannot seem to find it How can get the pending changes to only show items related to the current solution instead of items in all solutions Shaun Regarding Team System Alerts Is there a plan to integrate these alerts into things like Windows Live Messenger either from a Windows Live ID perspective or through Live Communication Server Alot of my clients ask about this feature Michael_Giag asked the experts RichardBerg licensed and supported can live without TFS isn t THAT buggy just want to make sure there arent goign to be artificial technical barriers or say not releasing the Beta1 gt Beta2 stuff TAP people get Kevin Thanks for the blog site will check out Rob Caron s suggestion David Moye asked the experts follow up on testing other than unit tests What I d like to see
58. lly looking into those for a future release of Team Test Dennis MS Expert Q 140 In TFS a sharepoint site is created for each team project Can have a common site that shows all the team projects undr TFS A Unfortunately no that isn t possible with either Whidbey or Orcas versions of TFS This is something we have been considering for a future release though RobertHorvick MSFT Expert Q 152 understand that TFS work itesm can be exported to Excel or Microsoft projec But is there a way to export work ites to Microsoft Work A Additionally the TFS Migration and Syncornization toolkit http www codeplex com MigrationSync Toolkit could be used to build a tool that was capable of exporting TFS workitems to Works sudhirh_ MS Expert Q 96 TFS does not support active passive clustering for SQL server because of this we had to buy two licenses of SQL and TFS would this feature be available in next release A don t think we have made any major changes for this in Orcas Please drop me an email at sudhirh microsoft com and will try to get back with any other details you need DavidKean_ MS Moderator Q 163 Going back to unit testing on the test server requiring a full VS Test Dev install does this require its own license or can you re use one that a dev uses for day to day work otherwise this is a significant extra cost A As long as those that using the Test Server have a license of the SKU that is in
59. msbuild projects with team build aspx DavidKean_ MS Moderator Q 207 VSTS V1 support WSS 2 0 will Orcas support both WSS 2 0 and 3 0 A Unfortunately we don t have an Web Service experts in this chat at the moment Can you ask this question over on the MSDN Forums http for ums microsoft com MSDN ShowForum aspx Forum ID 46 amp SitelD 1 dgorena_MS Expert Q 142 Extending Shaun s question any discussion about integrating chat collobration into the IDE to allow a type of virtual pair programming A know there has been discussions about this topic but this will definitely not be in for Orcas We have many plans we re very excited but we re still putting all the pieces together MichalMa_MS Expert Q 210 i hope concurrency is hanled in TFS can you confirm that A yes TFS uses Ms SQL Server as backend e g all check ins are performed in transaction RichardBerg MS Expert Q 206 Is there any limit to the number of work items per team project any stat as to after what figure do we see a degradation in TFS performance because the cube is of larger size A Not really We have around 200 000 work items in our main team project If you look back at the v1 goals http blogs msdn com bharry archive 2005 11 28 497666 aspx you ll see our target is 1M I ll bet we can do better than that Dennis MS Expert Q 196 How can we resirict work item creation based on a user role A If the user is only a member of
60. n V1 there is no such checkbox but you can use the subscription filter expression to manipulate what exactly you want to subscribe to RichardBerg MS Expert Q 217 q 214 0pen from souce control A Ok We definitely want to integrate label information into more parts of the IDE don t know if we have plans to add it to the Open From Source Control specifically but will suggest it to the right people Dennis MS Expert Q 219 How can easily modify the bug template to include a subscribe button so the user can subscribe to emails for that bug s activity A There is currently no way to do this aside from creating a custom control no way out of the box It should be possible to do this with a custom control which calls the eventing web services Guest Chat Connecting to chat service RHundhausen connected Welcome to the MSDN Chat Room This room is for discussing technical topics with other users Please abide by the code of conduct For a listing of upcoming chats please visit our chat calendar http msdn microsoft com chats Chat Topic Team System Chat Sheila Shovlin Where can we find instructions to automatically assign a bug to a user based on the Area formerly known as Category in Mantis it s put in DavidKean_ MS Moderator InfPeter You have a great question please ask your question again but choose Post Question to Expert raj asked the experts How can seach for a file in TFS Micha
61. n be created and by whom in Orcas We d really like to be able to designate certain folders in which to put branches e g Proj Branches Dave McKinstry henry From my experience Team Test has minimal changes in Orcas know MS is considering changes for future releases You might want to Ask the experts raj asked the experts The workspace checkout checkin option could be made better We have had users who check out things to the wrong folder or checkin things to the wrong solution because of the way the workspace was mapped automatically on first check out Elegant Code asked the experts see a lot about workflow will we see a more mature workflow capability for workitems Data driven forms controls without writing code for example Glacier To question 30 baseline report about changing item merging event henry asked the experts Are there any major functional testing advantages to using Team Test in comparsion to Silk Test or Mercury Quick Test Pro or will we have to wait till Rosario comes out to make that decision Philip Stears asked the experts Is it possible to generate a check out report to see who has what checked out this would be very useful when it comes to releasing Glacier asked the experts To question 30 baseline report about changing item merging event Michael_Giag asked the experts Any idea if nStatic like features will be added to code analysis Ishroop asked the experts understand that TFS work
62. nd Excel integration duncand_ms Expert Hi I m Duncan Davenport and I m a Program Manager and SQL SME in Team Data was a SQL SME and Developer for VSTS DBPro in during version 1 development MichalMa_MS Expert Welcome I m Michal I m dev in VC Client mainly FolderDiff for Orcas and Tfs Msscci for other IDEs sudhirh_ MS Expert am a program manager for TFS setup admin ops deployment Keren MS Expert Hi everyone I m Keren a test developer in Work Item Tracking Project Management server team Tan_MS Expert Q 1 Will TeamPlain be available for TFS Orcas Beta 1 A It will not It will be in a Power Tool Yohana_MS Expert Welcome everyone am an SDET in VC Client chaowei_MS Expert Hi was SDET in VSTS F1 profiler team and moved to Proteus team two weeks ago RichardBerg MS Expert Glacier can you be more specific We don t have merge policies as a feature within TFS If you re looking for general advice guidance try http www codeplex com BranchingGuidance MichalMa_MS Expert Q 6 How can seach for a file in TFS A you can use tf dir with wildcard Unfortunately there is no gui way to do this neither there is file content search avilable ErbilY MS Expert Hi everyone am an SDET in the Team Architect team Phil Lee_MS Expert Q 2 l m waiting rosario too when it will be shiped A What features do you want that aren t avialable or won t be available in Orcas SmithaS MS
63. nd it cannot invoke the web service subscribed A Answered jboyle_msft Expert Q 4 How about assigning 1 wor item to more than 1 person in the ext future of vsts A that is something we are looking at for a future release Right now our best answer is to have just one person own it or if it is truly something multiple people need to work on then to copy the work item and assign an instance to each person jboyle_msft Expert Q 55 Second issue Is there anyway to bulk edit a group of bugs within the VSTS client rather than exporting the bugs to something like Excel A No Excel is our bulk editing solution SmithaS MS Expert Q 39 am trying to add a tab to the Bug template to subscribe a list of users to that particular bug upon a change addition removal to this DL Is this going to be possible with the BisSubscribe command or other or am headed for failure A Yes you can subscribe users to be notified when a bug changes using BisSubscribe sudhirh_ MS Expert Q 45 When will we get PowerShell support in TFS The ability to do queries in PowerShell is really nice and it would be a natural fit with the TFS version control and work item data A This is planned for Rosario You will not have it in Orcas RichardBerg MS Expert Q 45 When will we get PowerShell support in TFS The ability to do queries in PowerShell is really nice and it would be a natural fit with the TFS version control and work item data
64. o Server A We are focusing on the Orcas release in this session at some time in the future we ll discuss our next release but this is under consideration for a future release kkelly_ms Expert Q 16 how VSTS compitable with VS2003 A usiing the MSSCCI proovider that you intall into vs2003 you can access the source code control commands on TFS DavidKean_ MS Moderator Q 34 Are there any updates coming to FxCop 1 35 It s been a long time since release and there are several bugs A Although can t get give an exact date we do plan on releasing an update to FxCop sometime in the next quarter What bugs are you hitting Tan MS Expert Q 10 How can permanently delete a folder in TFS source control A tf destroy RichardBerg MS Expert Q 31 TeamPlain rocks Will it be part of Orcas when it ships or will it be part of Rosario assume we ll have it as a PowerTool until then A It won t be a fully integrated part of the product in the Orcas timeframe We ll continue to make Power Tool releases don t think we ve decided what it will look like in Rosario yet Dennis MS Expert Q 23 Is there a way to look at errors if a a workitemeventchange event is fired and it cannot invoke the web service subscribed A I m not 100 certain but I d be surprised if any errors in calling a web service during eventing were not logged in the event log sudhirh_ MS Expert Q 36 was told by someone at MS that TF
65. olumn headers sort on click Philip Stears Michael Plus guess my console apps are just smaller than other peoples Michael Giag well Debug and Trace also go there too Michael_Giag yea some people use production console apps sean asked the experts Any plans for a GUI button to kill a build rather than the command line just wishful thinking Michael _Giag Thanks Tan_MS reiko OmarV asked the experts Will be able to migrate to any or all of the betas from V1 Matteo Emili Q 157 Then Project 2007 in rosario right A If you re referring to the client app MS Project 2007 it already works in Whidbey SP1 and Orcas If you mean Project Server yes it s planned for Rosario though nothing is certain yet Ed asked the experts Are there any examples on how to use TFS build for VB6 and VC6 projects Yes VB6 is still living on Matteo Emili Yes thanks i intended Server Matteo Emili asked the experts Yes thanks i intended Server Shaun asked the experts Well the Tablet PC SDK be integrated into Orcas Ishroop Is there any limit to the number of work items per team project any stat as to after what figure do we see a degradation in TFS performance because the cube is of larger size Ishroop asked the experts Is there any limit to the number of work items per team project any stat as to after what figure do we see a degradation in TFS performance because the cube is of larger size Hassan asked the experts VSTS V1 suppo
66. or easy ways to multithread certain loops etc A There is a group in DevDiv called the Parallel Computing Platform that is doing great work on the hard problems around concurrency No products to announce yet I m sure they will creat their own buzz when they re ready BenRyan MS Expert Q 169 is it possible to auto exclude the bin folder from being checked in when checking in a solution for the first time A do not know of a straightforward way to do this You can do things like Undo on the pending adds for teh bin directory to keep them from being checked in You might also consider unmapping or cloaking the local folder for the bin directory DavidKean_ MS Moderator Q 179 Is a release of FxCop planned to coincide with the RTM of Orcas What classes of code analysis with TFS include that FxCop won t A It is likely that the next version of FxCop will be released sometime around the release of Orcas Things that are included in Visual Studio that FxCop does not have are but not limited to Code Analysis Policy the ability to enforce that code passes particular rules on check in Maintainability and Reliability rules Code Metrics out of the box support for MSBuild so warnings can be displayed in the Error List and a few other features RichardBerg MS Expert Q 145 Will we get the ability to lock down where branches can be created and by whom in Orcas We d really like to be able to designate certain folders in which
67. ould use the Migration and Synchronization Toolkit that we just released in beta on CodePlex www codeplex com MigrationSyncToolkit RichardBerg MS Expert Q 82 comment like the idea of linking a duplicate work item to the original A You can do this already in v1 although the link will not capture the duplicate relationship In Rosario you can make it more explicit jboyle_msft Expert Q 41 will we have the possibility of managing projects with intersections in orcas or rosario A what do you mean by intersections Dennis MS Expert Q 82 comment like the idea of linking a duplicate work item to the original A Us too We have the same problem internally It is being considered for a future release DavidKean_ MS Moderator Q 59 Where can i find more information about CyclomaticComplexity feature in Orcas A Besides what we ve already published on our blog http blogs msdn com fxcop there s not much information around at the moment This will change in Beta 2 we also do plan on doing more indepth blog posts on the blog in the coming months chaowei_MS Expert Q 6 How can seach for a file in TFS A it s answered already duncand_ms Expert Q 81 Are there any enhancements to data driven unit tests in Orcas such as the ability to use XML data to drive the tests as opposed to a database A Not in Orcas We have this in mind for a Powertool release and forward but we don t have a d
68. ow you can use our forum http forums microsoft com msdn showforum aspx forumid 19 amp siteid 1 We ll be glad to help you out with any questions RichardBerg MS Expert Q 202 Will be able to migrate to any or all of the betas from V1 A Yes starting with Beta 2 DavidKean_ MS Moderator Q 174 Will Wxpression Blend integrated with VS Maybe even in a Visual Studio Team Edition for Designer A Unfortunately we can t talk or speculate about future products RichardBerg MS Expert Q 204 Yes thanks i intended Server A np Tan_MS Expert Q 200 Pending changes windows Can you please make the column headers sort on click 9 A For the Work Item channel in the Pending Changes window one thing that can help is the search box You can enter some text work item id partial title text and search for work items in that list kkelly_ms Expert Q 202 Will be able to migrate to any or all of the betas from V1 A upgrade scheme Whidbey gt Beta2 gt Final release MichalMa_MS Expert Q 207 VSTS V1 support WSS 2 0 will Orcas support both WSS 2 0 and 3 0 A yes AaronHallberg MS Expert Q 203 Are there any examples on how to use TFS build for VB6 and VC6 projects Yes VB6 is still living on A Not that know of but do have a post on my blog that illustrates using arbitrary executables to compile non MSBuild projects http ologs msdn com aaronhallberg archive 2007 03 30 building non
69. ow to effectively use Team Test as a QA person Matteo Emili asked the experts could you send me something more detailed about it if you want can give you my mail Shaun Is LINQ going to be integrated into Orcas with the RTM release as it is now with Beta 1 raj asked the experts The shelve feature is awesome too DavidKean_ MS Moderator Ishroop Can you ask your questions to the experts Sheila Shovlin asked the experts Again TFS Alerts seem to be a bit lacking would like to add a check box and distribution list to the Bug template which would allow users to subscribe to just that bug Can the bug template be altered to subscribe a user to the bug or list of Elegant Code asked the experts what recommendation do you have for implementing Cl on 2005 ina way that primes us for an easy migration to Orcas Keith Hill asked the experts ls there a way to categorize unit tests in Team Developer edition so that certain sets of unit tests can be selected for running like say BuildVerification or LongRunning Ishroop thanks Ishroop asked the experts is there any SDK that details what is going on in DB after every operation that is performed in backed so that we can do some modification there is the need be this SDK would help make the things very stable and handy understand the risk though Philip Stears Are there going to be any more team project templates shipped with Orcas Team System out of the box e g Scrum Phi
70. rd party Juvander There is also the Migration and Synchronization Toolkit that can be used to accomplish this AaronHallberg MS Expert Q 201 Any plans for a GUI button to kill a build rather than the command line just wishful thinking A Yes Orcas has the ability to stop and even delete builds from the GUI Download the beta and try it out RichardBerg MS Expert Q 157 Then Project 2007 in rosario right A If you re referring to the client app MS Project 2007 it already works in Whidbey SP1 and Orcas If you mean Project Server yes it s planned for Rosario though nothing is certain yet kkelly_ms Expert Q 200 Pending changes windows Can you please make the column headers sort on click 9 A great feedback what you see today is what will be in Orcas but stacking up this kind of feedback for vnext thanks dgorena_MS Expert Q 198 To Q 178 searched amazon just now for books that have visual studio testers in the keywords and of the 17 results none was a book on VS for Testers There are lots of all in 1 s but none of them is describes best practices for VS oftware Testers A Yes this is because VSTS used to be integrated as a whole it was one product after we understood that we were targeting different audiences we splitted the products there are books being written today specifically for the Tester s edition but they haven t been published Do expect them in the near future For n
71. rojects Unfortunately we don t have experts on this particular feature For more information start here http msdn2 microsoft com en us library wx3b589t aspx RichardBerg MS Expert Q 161 Re Team plain for scrum No We are talking about something more like a desktop with widgets like 3X5 cards that you can move around This would represent work items A Interesting No don t think we have any Uls like that planned This is a great example of something we d like to see the community produce using our extensibility model sudhirh_MS Expert Q 158 According to question 105 we want to use TFS Centrally for multi domain environment That should be possible if you have 2 way trust between your domain forests what about code synchronisations on TFS A That should be possible It does not matter to TFS which domain the users belong to Once he gets access to TFS the system behavior is same for all users based on permissions available jboyle_msft Expert Q 159 TFS provides two process templates can we expect any more templates to be published in the near future A No we are looking to partners to provide additional templates we will continue to bring Agile amp CMMI forward PaulS MS Expert Q 99 What kind of changes are expected for the comming releases related to test case management In particular enhanced support for manual test case lifecycle and GUI automation A Those are great suggestions We re actua
72. rt WSS 2 0 will Orcas support both WSS 2 0 and 3 0 Chris Tullier to Sheila Shovlin see if the report and service account have log on interactively rights in the machines policy ran into this issue once where the security policy restricted it Not sure if it s best practice but it cleared the issue TScott asked the experts How could any custom controls in work items be shown in TeamPlain Matteo Emili Will Windows Embedded embedded into VS Michael_ Giag yea it d be nice if Expression supported TFS Michael _Giag WIT SCC Matteo Emili very nice OmarV asked the experts Will he have a Label control in the WI Form in Orcas Ishroop asked the experts i hope concurrency is hanled in TFS can you confirm that Matteo Emili everything inside the VS environment Philip Stears Michael worry about opening up development to designers without source control support Michael Giag On a machine with just the NET 3 5 Framework Beta 1 installed should it uninstall cleanly so as to allow a NET 3 5 Betaz2 install and then RTM Michael_Giag asked the experts On a machine with just the NET 3 5 Framework Beta 1 installed should it uninstall cleanly so as to allow a NET 3 5 Beta2 install and then RTM Dave McKinstry Michael_Giag agree Heck I d accept ANY version control support for Expression tools Right now designers are being fully excluded from the rest of the Team ben2004uk asked the experts Will beta 2 be go live for
73. s this true A Yes you can have a hidden folder for the drop location just make sure that the folder is shared with correct permissions dgorena_MS Expert Q 148 Are there any major functional testing advantages to using Team Test in comparsion to Silk Test or Mercury Quick Test Pro or will we have to wait till Rosario comes out to make that decision A Hello If you mean exclusively functional testing UI testing we are not directly supporting this scenario for Orcas although you can integrate third party components to make this possible We are planning to support functional testing in later versions for now our main advantage is our integration story having everything in VSTS 2005 developers testers bug tracking source control reports etc RichardBerg MS Expert Q 150 To question 30 baseline report about changing item merging event A We don t have anything like this built yet To see what kinds of features we want to build in this space check out Mario s visualizing change video http channel9 msdn com ShowPost aspx PostID 301647 Dennis MS Expert Q 187 Ishroop Dennis_MS Expert Us too We have the same problem internally It is being considered for a future release what issues you are facing with dublicate work items as stated A This is part of our process as well that if you resolve a work item as a duplicate you have to provide a link to the duplicate work item believe that right no
74. se the VS proj sin build system anyway So our situation may be very different from yours RichardBerg MS Expert Q 160 am confused You seem to indicate that WSS 3 0 is not available until Orcas But this post gives instructions on how to install it now Comments http blogs msdn com briankel archive 2007 04 14 Configuring Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server with A As understand it these instructions are not fully supported serviceable official support will be in Orcas Dennis MS Expert Q 131 How to integration TFS in MOSS development A One more thing Support for Sharepoint 3 0 is part of Orcas so no patch will be required It should also work with MOSS but again it hasn t been extensively tested yet SmithaS MS Expert Q 152 understand that TFS work itesm can be exported to Excel or Microsoft projec But is there a way to export work ites to Microsoft Work A assume it is Microsoft Word We don t support TFS addin to Word in V1 but we have necessary platform that can be used to achieve this by any customer or vendors DavidKean MS Moderator Q 47 I ve just been put in charge of developing the deployment package for our software product I m used Wise for Windows but now understand that TFS has a built in Windows Installer Compliant deployment tool Where can get detailed documentation Thanx A Visual Studio does provide a Setup project that allows you write Windows Installer p
75. stalled than this is fine kkelly_ms Expert Q 146 The workspace checkout checkin option could be made better We have had users who check out things to the wrong folder or checkin things to the wrong solution because of the way the workspace was mapped automatically on first check out A Thanks for this feedback we re working on it do you have a specific request or scenario can copy and paste into the notebook we keep on this requests RichardBerg MS Expert Q 166 What are your plans for implementing a Test case Management system A don t see anyone here from VS Team Test to answer this in detail unfortunately Suffice to say it s a major priority for Rosario We won t finish everything we d like to by then but it will be much much improved over VSTT v1 PaulS MS Expert Q 101 Is there a refrence book for VSTS for Testers A What sort of reference information are you looking for The product documentation has lots of how to info and a fairly thorough API reference Were you looking for something else such as a guide to best practices RichardBerg MS Expert Q 168 I d also like to see an answer to femi s re Test Case Management A see above thanks Dennis MS Expert Q 147 see a lot about workflow will we see a more mature workflow capability for workitems Data driven forms controls without writing code for example A Not in orcas no dgorena_MS Expert Q 122 follow up on te
76. sting other than unit tests What I d like to see is a report of test results that spans multiple builds good automation at the UI level etc Things that 3rd party tools have to do right now Are they any plans to really integrate QA A Yes there are definitely a lot of plans for this in Rosario We re still working on the details but we ll integrate test case management with all kinds of reports that will be really cool and helpful for QA folks sudhirh_ MS Expert Q 170 The Branching Guidance site on CodePlex http Awww codeplex com BranchingGuidance is really great stuff We ve need this sort of best practice guidance in the TFS community Keep up the good work A Thanks for your feedback AaronHallberg MS Expert Q 173 How do move the Team Build scripts from a root folder into a sub folder within source control and still have Team Explorer pick them up A In Orcas you can put your Team Build scripts wherever you want the Build Definition formerly known as a build type has a property you can set to point to the server directory that contains the scripts In VS 2005 this is not possible MattMitrik MSFT Expert Q 165 To question 144 a project has been migaration form VSS to VSTS After some SCM event on VSTS for this project running migaration again Will the old project CM data copy the one on VSTS A If I m understanding correctly you should be able to run the migration from VSS to TFS again and get
77. sts affect on the database rolled back after each test is finished How would do this Ishroop asked the experts In TFS a sharepoint site is created for each team project Can have a common site that shows all the team projects undr TFS Philip Stears asked the experts Are any more filtering options going to be added to the check in dialog filter by solution is good but some times not enough especially if you are doing a check in from the source control view and not from a solution ben2004uk asked the experts Extending Shaun s question any discussion about integrating chat collobration into the IDE to allow a type of virtual pair programming Glacier Questions about migration In same CM database will be same peoject both in VSTS and VSS can be missing Hassan asked the experts what about the review workflow of tfs on the next release Glacier asked the experts Questions about migration In same CM database will be same peoject both in VSTS and VSS can be missing Matteo Emili very very useful chat Matteo Emili very very useful chat henry Are there any major functional testing advantages to using Team Test in comparsion to Silk Test or Mercury Quick Test Pro or will we have to wait till Rosario comes out to make that decision Ishroop am very much satisfied with the TFS MSDN forums its very active thanks for the great service there Keith Hill asked the experts Will we get the ability to lock down where branches ca
78. sts to TFS work items These work items would be visible through the Team Explorer jboyle_msft Expert Q 128 what about improvements in requirements gathering and traceability A We have heard the feedback about the need for doing more with requirements and it is an area of focus for a future release MichalMa_MS Expert Q 133 MichalMa_MS thanks Having a duh moment here A You are welcome Keren MS Expert Q 113 Again TFS Alerts seem to be a bit lacking would like to add a check box and distribution list to the Bug template which would allow users to subscribe to just that bug Can the bug template be altered to subscribe a user to the bug or list of A Not really the design is that notification filtering is done using the subscription filter expression not in the bug template You will need to subscribe the user with a specific filter similar to a query that would only return that bug RichardBerg MS Expert Q 121 RichardBerg licensed and supported can live without TFS isn t THAT buggy just want to make sure there arent goign to be artificial technical barriers or say not releasing the Beta1 gt Beta2 stuff TAP people get A No there won t be artificial barriers mention support because it s fresh on my mind had to help someone upgrade from Dec 2005 CTP which we d said upfront was not go live gt TFS v1 RTM recently don t even want to know what the bill was As for usin
79. t practice Any chance of two right click menu SP gt Deploy local Deploy custom OmarV asked the experts What about a migration path from the Orcas Betas to RTM Will there be one evelardiez asked the experts How to integration TFS in MOSS development Ishroop asked the experts The link control in TFS cannot be made readonly or required based on system state atribute is there any work around raj asked the experts MichalMa_MS thanks Having a duh moment here Sheila Shovlin asked the experts Will a link to this chat thread be posted somewhere after it stops Elegant Code asked the experts we use team system to facilitate scrum on a big plasma screen have you given any thought to a UI model for work items that simulates a scrum board We are considering making one Shaun asked the experts Regarding Team System Alerts Is there a plan to integrate these alerts into things like Windows Live Messenger either from a Windows Live ID perspective or through Live Communication Server Alot of my clients ask about this feature Matteo Emili nothing in particular only informations Matteo Emili asked the experts nothing in particular only informations Elegant Code asked the experts what recommendation do you have for implementing continuous integration on 2005 in a way that primes us for an easy migration to Orcas Chris Tullier asked the experts need my test database to be reset after each test or have the DB Unit Te
80. t recommendation do you have for implementing continuous integration on 2005 in a way that primes us for an easy migration to Orcas A Its definitely our job and responsiblity to provide you the mechanisms for an easy migration to Orcas We ve implemented these mechanisms in project conversion wizards that should take care of everything that you have implemented in VSTS 2005 BenRyan MS Expert Q 141 Are any more filtering options going to be added to the check in dialog filter by solution is good but some times not enough especially if you are doing a check in from the source control view and not from a solution A None are planned for Orcas If you have a specific set of filtering conditions you would like to able to apply would recommend filing a suggestion at MSDN Feedback so we can track it and consider it for Rosario RichardBerg MS Expert Q 135 we use team system to facilitate scrum on a big plasma screen have you given any thought to a UI model for work items that simulates a scrum board We are considering making one A Can you give an example what it might look like Does TeamPlain come close duncand_ms Expert Q 139 need my test database to be reset after each test or have the DB Unit Tests affect on the database rolled back after each test is finished How would do this A The handiest way to do this to wrap the TSQL code in a Transaction and then Rollback the Transaction after the results have been
81. te on this Why would you need to replace a file during the build process DavidKean_ MS Moderator Q 52 Did you have to do anything special with CodeAnalysis in Orcas to support multiple versions of the NET Framework A The great thing about Orcas is that we actually get this for free The new MSBuild mult targeting means that you simply select the Framework you want to build against and Code Analysis just works jboyle_msft Expert Q 53 think that Portfolio Server will be a good step above A thanks for the input that is something we are looking at for a future release kkelly_ms Expert Q 40 kkelly_ms haven t heard of anything more specific than that they are afraid of having to manage TFS and keep it running which they feel is going to require a lot of resources or be difficult A It s hard to answer without hearing their speciific concerns But i will tell you that the entire server can be deployed onto a single PC desktop machine with 2GM of memory The install for a small team can take an hour or so And someone on the team will need to wear the Administrator hat on occasion to manage users and groups Making it easier for small teams to work with is an ongoing area of focus for us and you should see even more improvements in beta2 For example we ve consolidated the App Tier and Data Tier install and configuration tools MichalMa_MS Expert Q 72 Will Orcas allow the renaming of Team Projects A No
82. tests can be selected for running like say BuildVerification or LongRunning A The Test List Editor has now been added to Team Developer This allows you categorize tests into Test Lists dgorena_MS Expert Q 88 Are there any new unit test features in the pipeline A Orcas will be all about making our unit testing experience better and by that mean that your unit tests will run faster and that you will have features such as being able to run them by right clicking your source and choosing to run them AaronHallberg MS Expert Q 119 I d like to add a code verification step to a build can someone suggest a good link to information on how to do this i m think FXcop or the like A FxCop static analysis is integrated into Team Build already just enable static analysis for the build type build definition in Orcas and make sure you have the Developer edition installed on the build machine Tan_MS Expert Q 9 1 Where can we find instructions to automatically assign a bug to a user based on the Area it s put in A don t think this can currently be done using the existing UI You ll need to write some code sudhirh_ MS Expert Q 107 i guess was t clear Why do have to use the non supported TFS admin tool to manage users this should be a part of the Visual studio TFS client IMHO does this change in the next release A We have not made any headway on the permission synchronization issue Currently
83. the Readers group then they won t have access to create write to work items think this can be overridden by assigning them permissions under certain area paths DavidKean_MS Moderator Q 211 On a machine with just the NET 3 5 Framework Beta 1 installed should it uninstall cleanly so as to allow a NET 3 5 Betaz2 install and then RTM A We do recommend that users start with a clean slate we also recommend that you don t install the Betas and CTP on production machines AaronHallberg MS Expert Q 208 How could any custom controls in work items be shown in TeamPlain A Jason Prickett says They can t Currently custom controls only work in the Visual Studio client RichardBerg MS Expert Q 214 please make it easier to checkout by Label When select type Label please list all the labels for that solution automatically A Hi when you say checkout do you mean download from the server aka open from source control or pend an edit jboyle_msft Expert Q 208 How could any custom controls in work items be shown in TeamPlain A think you d need a different version of the control that team plain could load This is some of the work we ll have to address as we bring team plain fully into Microsoft and integrate it with the product kkelly_ms Expert A yes RichardBerg MS Expert Q Shaun yes but we re biased Sn let the audience answer this one jboyle_msft Expert Q 212 Will beta 2 be go
84. updated changes from VSS as long as the mappings do not change SmithaS MS Expert Q 175 can we expect any more work item controls to be released or any patches for the existing issues in work item controls A Yes Multi Value control is one remember that maybe released has power toy in Rosario sudhirh_ MS Expert Q 176 By creating A Team project i have to configure the accounts for this project on 3 levels Groups on TFS Sharepoint and on the Reports site Is there a way to do that once for all this three steps WITHIUT USING TFSADMIN TOOL A No The only way to do this today is using the TFSAdmin tool from Codeplex dgorena_MS Expert Q 100 When will ISO Images of Orcas will be available for public My colleagues are waiting A He have some of them already there http msdn2 microsoft com en us vstudio aa700831 aspx Expect the remaining ones soon Keren MS Expert Q 167 Is there a way to integrate TFS Alerts into Windows Live Messenger Alerts A Not in V1 only supports emails and SOAP messages am not aware of any plans to support IM in future releases but will try to find out more info for you ak MSFT Expert Q 117 Are there going to be any more team project templates shipped with Orcas Team System out of the box e g Scrum A We do not have plans to ship addtional templates There are several partners that provide addtional templates for Team System jboyle_msft Expert Q 175 can
85. upported natively For unit tests we have added the ability to run tests by container e g all tests within a particular DLL instead of just by metadata file StevenPo MSFT Expert Q 57 Is there a planned release date for DB Pro SR1 CTP A The plan was actually to have it available by now This is our first patch release so it s taking us a little longer than expected to jump through all the necessary hoops to produce a patch setup that will only install changes and not require folks to download the entire product I m afraid don t have anything more concrete at the moment other than as soon as possible SmithaS MS Expert Q 61 Can a work item be assigned to more than one user or to a group A In V1 we don t support assiging a work item to multiple user or a group Alternative to it would be to duplicate the work item and assign one to each user AaronHallberg MS Expert Q 66 How do replace a file such as the web config during the team build process The file is locked during build because it s part of the temporary build workspace A would recommend an Exec task that invokes tf exe There are various examples of this on my blog believe http blogs msdn com aaronhallberg BhavikS MS Expert Q 66 How do replace a file such as the web config during the team build process The file is locked during build because it s part of the temporary build workspace A Chris can you be little bit more elabora
86. w we just have field that is required if the resolution type is Duplicate and you just put the work item id in that field It would probably be possible to write a custom control that creates the link for you when you enter the duplicate number but then each of your clients would need to have this control installed Keren MS Expert Q 183 Are there any plans to extend alerts to things like only alert me on checkins in the following folder area iteration discipline whatever A Yes this actually exists in V1 using the subscription filter When you subscribe using OM or bissubscribe you can specify an area iteration folder in the subscription s filter expression it is similar to a sql query RichardBerg MS Expert Q 190 see two different answers for Q 130 understand the go live license but please clarify my question is about the migration path not the go live license want to know if at any point will need to throw away and reinstall A There will be a fully supported migration path from v1 gt Orcas Beta 2 and from Orcas Beta 2 gt Orcas RTM BenRyan MS Expert Q 185 If the code files are be packed to rar file can TFS show the code difference about these RAR files A We do not have anyting builtin to do this You can configure your own third party diff tool however so you could write a batch file that extracted the file from the RAR and perform the diff and configure TFS to run your batch file
87. way to extend SharePoint Docs and List back into the VSTF Is this possible If not will it be in a future version A Can you explain a little more about the scenario you are thinking of Are you asking if WSS document libraries could be mirrored into TFS version control or if WSS lists could connect to workitems dgorena_MS Expert Q 54 Is there a good refernce or a set of best practices for VS Team Test A Hello if you have specific questions we can help you here in the chat or at our forums http forums microsoft com msdn there are also books avaiable some of them have been written by Microsoft employees who worked and or work on the product Take a look here http msdn2 microsoft com en us teamsystem aa718829 aspx HariP_ MSFT Expert Q 78 What is the best way for a developer to execute performance tests on LINQ within Visual Studio Codename Orcas A Shaun what do you mean by performance tests Do you want to profiler LINQ programs using Orcas profiler or run some kind of load test using Visual Studio Team Test If you want to profile LINQ programs then that is fully supported using Visual Studio Team Developer Profiler kkelly_ms Expert Q 41 will we have the possibility of managing projects with intersections in orcas or rosario A Don t know the answer for Rosario but for whidbey and orcas you will be able to use orcas clients with a whidbey TFS some feature won s won t be available of course RichardBerg M
88. you will have to use the opensource tool This is highest priority for us going forward but will not be available in Orcas MichalMa_MS Expert Q 120 sorry if this was answered already cannot seem to find it How can get the pending changes to only show items related to the current solution instead of items in all solutions A Pending Changes Window Filter By solution button it s far right on the toolbar next to workspace combo box jboyle_msft Expert Q 127 biztalk and tfs integration what could you say about it A what scenario are you looking to address with an integration AaronHallberg MS Expert Q 126 I m not sure if there are any MSBUILD folks on this chat but was disappointed to see in Orcas beta 1 that SLN and Setup project files are still NOT MSBUILD files SLN files don t diff well in TF version control because of the proj numbering A Agreed this is disappointing I m not sure what the plans are for changing this moving forward try the MSBuild forums DavidKean_MS Moderator We re about half way through the chat Keep those questions coming MattMitrik MSFT Expert Q 109 RE 68 for example Sharepoint has lists and events that can be setup and shown Can these items be shown in the Team Explorer or must all developers venture out into SharePoint to view all the Items lists that the PM sets up A With the Migration and Synchronization Toolkit there is a sample tool that syncs Sharepoint li

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