Change Visual Studio Workspaces for Team Foundation After Client Name Changed

     As part of source control in visual studio team foundation, ever user has their own workspace tie to the computer name of client and username on Team Foundation Server. If any one needs to change the computer name on client computer or the username, should use “tf.exe” command from the visual studio like following:

1. Make sure Team Explorer has been installed. (most likely it’s there if VS2010 installed)
2. Open a command line window and go to folder “C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE” (or “C:\Program Files(x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE” if on Windows 7)
3. Run the command
   
   Shell

   tf workspaces /updateComputerName:Old_Computer_Name /s:http://Tfs_server_URL

   1	tf workspaces /updateComputerName:Old_Computer_Name /s:http://Tfs_server_URL

Create XML Comments for Custom Function in VIsual Studio 2010

     If you need to add your custom comments for your function, including function summary, parameter description, return value etc., just add “///” right before your function, then VS will generate XML layout for you.

     After finish comments, enable “XML Documentation” option for your project:

1. Open project property
2. Go to “Build” tab
3. Check “Xml documentation file”
4. Build project, then check the XML comments in other project

Fixing “Unable to get the project file from the Web Server”

     When trying to open an existing project in Visual Studio 2003, if keep getting a pop up message “Unable to get the project file from the Web Server”:

     Try following to fix the problem:

1. Check the webinfo file, make sure the “URLPath” is correct.
2. Recreate the virtual directory for it and restart IIS.
3. Delete the project cache in “C:Documents and SettingsusernameVSWebCache”

Visual Studio Website Administration Tool & SQL Server Express

      In Visual Studio the Website Administration Tool lets you view and manage the Web site configuration through a simple Web interface. But sometimes there is problem which is when using the Website Administration Tool to make a new connection for a new website, for example, using the security tab of the Website Administration Tool to manage rules for securing specific resources in the web application or website, it will display an error message “Unable to connect to SQL Server database”, even you have SQL Server Express installed and no problem to connect to it.
      To solve this problem, try one or more of the following ways:
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