TFS 2008

SQL Reporting Services Error Installing TFS 2010

Dennis Bottjer — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 06:18:01 GMT

Over the weekend I spun up a new virtual machine for a practice TFS 2010 Installation. The TFS installation process is much improved. It can loosely be broken into two phases which are installation and configuration. The installation is the easy part which basically prepares the server and copies some bits to the drive. The configuration is a little more difficult but provides some guidance to help make the important decisions. During the configuration you make the following three key decisions.

Install WSS 3.0 or use an existing SharePoint installation
Install SQL Express or use an existing SQL Instance
Install Reporting Services

During the configuration I received TF255275 Error during the Reporting Services portion of the configuration. My reporting services database was created and configured for SharePoint Mode.

Reference: http://www.sathishtk.com/blog/post/2009/10/15/TFS-2010-TF255275-Error.aspx

Despite referencing the TFS 2010 Beta the above blog post helped resolve the issue. Essentially, I had to change the database to Native Mode. However, as a commenter mentions I had to delete the Report Database and recreate it in Native Mode before the configuration wizard would complete.

TFS 2008 Get Latest Automatically

dbottjer — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:36:06 GMT

Issue: Ensure your code is the latest before a check out.

Not working with the latest code often creates a confusing situation for a developers trying to debug misbehaving code. Furthermore, it becomes very important to get latest changes and merge differences when working on a project with many dependencies.

Solution:

David McCollough my friend and co-worker showed me how to automatically ensure getting latest upon checkout by performing the following steps:

Launch Visual Studio 2008
Click Tools->Options
Expand the Source Control section
Click on Visual Studio Team Foundation Server
Ensure that the “Get Latest Version of item on check out” is checked.

Note: If a checkout is attempted, but the TFS has a newer version of the file being checked out, then the user is prompted to overwrite the file with the latest version.

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How To Expose TFS 2008 Work Items using Web Access

Dennis Bottjer — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 11:20:12 GMT

Issue: We wanted to exposes work items, bugs, etc. to the customer without exposing all the other Web Access Tabs such as Source, Documents, and Builds.

Solution: Team System Web Access SP1

Team System Web Access SP1 adds an additional virtual directory named “wiwa” which stands for work item web access. This new virtual directory is accessible on port 8090 by default and exposes a special work item only view which was exactly what we wanted.

TFS Web Access supports both forms based authentications and Windows Authentications.

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