Visual Studio 2008 articles, fixes and updates - Year 2008

This list contains all of the known Microsoft Knowledge Base articles, howtos, fixes, hotfixes, webcasts and updates of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 that have been released in Year 2008. The list is daily updated.

• 961368 Command line error MIDL1005 : cannot find C preprocessor cl.exe Q961368 KB961368 December 19, 2008
• 961031 Bug - MFC CDialogEx::SetBackgroundColor with Themes and Common Controls 6 Q961031 KB961031 December 10, 2008
• 960961 ATL - DLL exporting C++ classes derived from ATL base classes Q960961 KB960961 December 8, 2008
• 956861 FIX: Error message when you publish a large test result that is generated by using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Team System Test to Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2005 Q956861 KB956861 November 25, 2008
• 958502 A hotfix that provides the IntelliSense flavor for Visual Studio 2008 JavaScript files is available Q958502 KB958502 November 19, 2008
• 960234 Error TF30162 when creating new team project Q960234 KB960234 November 18, 2008
• 959946 Team Foundation Server reports: TF14082: "Cannot lock item" during branch Q959946 KB959946 November 11, 2008
• 959389 PRB: A pinning pointer passed to variable-argument function causes System.BadImageFormatException Q959389 KB959389 October 29, 2008
• 959375 How to change the Default Web Site port on a Team Foundation Server 2008 Application Tier Machine Q959375 KB959375 October 28, 2008
• 959339 Could not Connect to TFS after remove and re-install .Net Framework 2.0 Q959339 KB959339 October 27, 2008
• 959055 Users in custom Team Foundation Server Project-Level Group are unable to add, edit, or access Work Items Q959055 KB959055 October 20, 2008
• 952096 Error TF86001 or TF80042 Opening Microsoft Team Foundation Server Work Items in Microsoft Excel or Microsoft Project Q952096 KB952096 October 8, 2008
• 958450 User need to authenticate to access to Team Foundation Server Web Access Q958450 KB958450 October 6, 2008
• 958365 Team Foundation Server Publishers do not have browse permission to reports by default Q958365 KB958365 October 3, 2008
• 956089 FIX: A floating-point exception occurs when an application contains an uninitialized floating-point variable and is compiled with the /fp:expect option in Visual Studio 2008 Q956089 KB956089 September 17, 2008
• 945371 Exception error message when you use Visual Studio 2008 to deploy a SQL Client-based application to a mobile device or to an emulator: "Missing method Exception" Q945371 KB945371 September 12, 2008
• 957591 Changing the SMTP port for outgoing alert e-mails sent from Microsoft Team Foundation Server Q957591 KB957591 September 8, 2008
• 957540 TFS: Team Foundation Server experiences Sporadic Connectivity Issues when in a Virtual Environment Q957540 KB957540 September 5, 2008
• 957313 Only the first 100 items display in query results viewed in reports or sent in email in Visual Studio Team System Web Access Q957313 KB957313 August 27, 2008
• 957202 Microsoft Team Foundation Server Project Creation Fails with "TfsReportDS not defined..." Error Q957202 KB957202 August 25, 2008
• 957084 "TFSAdminUtil.EXE STATUS" Command Does Not Report Windows Service Information When Used With NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE Q957084 KB957084 August 20, 2008
• 956933 Issues with building a project with "Register for COM interop" for a 64-bit assembly Q956933 KB956933 August 18, 2008
• 956887 VSSConverter cannot correctly migrate items that have been restored and then moved in Visual SourceSafe. Q956887 KB956887 August 15, 2008
• 956886 VSSConverter silently deletes items that occupy a path required to migrate Q956886 KB956886 August 15, 2008
• 956885 VSSConverter does not migrate versions before a Restore action in Visual SourceSafe Q956885 KB956885 August 15, 2008
• 956856 TFS 2008/ Not able to connect to TFS 2008 after installing Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Q956856 KB956856 August 14, 2008
• 953318 FIX: The certificate for the Team Foundation Server Service account does not appear when you run the TweakUI command in Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server Q953318 KB953318 August 14, 2008
• 956761 Links for Team System Web Access 2008 Power Tool are enabled only for check-in notification e-mail Q956761 KB956761 August 12, 2008
• 956750 Error from VSSConverter.exe: "The Create action is invalid as there was no corresponding Add/Restore/Share/Move action in parent folder at the time" Q956750 KB956750 August 12, 2008
• 956253 You cannot start the Entity Data Model Designer or the Entity Designer stops responding when you open an .edmx file in the Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Shell (integrated mode) Q956253 KB956253 August 11, 2008
• 956252 How to disable the ADO.NET Entity Designer from the Visual Studio 2008 Shell (isolated mode) with Service Pack 1 Q956252 KB956252 August 11, 2008
• 953021 FIX: Performance decreases when you migrate Visual Studio 2005 team build types to Visual Studio 2008 team build definitions Q953021 KB953021 July 31, 2008
• 947171 FIX: A Visual Studio 2005 test project may not function correctly when you convert it by using the Conversion Wizard in Visual Studio 2008 Q947171 KB947171 July 31, 2008
• 956245 Random occurrences of error "TF14019: The changeset <xxx> does not exist." using Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2008 Q956245 KB956245 July 25, 2008
• 956078 TFS2008: Source file path information is not available for a changeset when creating custom report Q956078 KB956078 July 22, 2008
• 956003 BUG: MFC Feature Pack wizard generated code with CFormView-derived view shows Debug Assertion Q956003 KB956003 July 21, 2008
• 955869 Team System 2008 Architecture Edition missing Unit Test functionality Q955869 KB955869 July 18, 2008
• 955748 Unable to uninstall/Re-install VCRedist Q955748 KB955748 July 16, 2008
• 955600 The Visual Studio Designer does not Respect Assembly Binding Redirection Q955600 KB955600 July 11, 2008
• 955377 Error "Cannot copy file: Cannot read from the source file or disk." copying items under the Documents node in Visual Studio Team Explorer Q955377 KB955377 July 7, 2008
• 954362 Error message when you try to install a ClickOnce application whose name contains Unicode characters or DBCS characters: "Application download did not succeed" Q954362 KB954362 July 2, 2008
• 955045 'getaddrinfo' could not be located in the dynamic link library WS2_32. Q955045 KB955045 June 27, 2008
• 953638 You cannot add more than five users after you install the release version of Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server Q953638 KB953638 June 5, 2008
• 951195 Some paths that are not valid cannot be migrated from Visual SourceSafe to Visual Studio Team Foundation Server Q951195 KB951195 June 4, 2008
• 948854 Error message when you try to run a Visual C++ application: "This application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect. Reinstalling the application may fix the problem" Q948854 KB948854 May 30, 2008
• 948619 A Visual C++ application may not start after you upgrade to Visual Studio 2005 or to a later version Q948619 KB948619 May 30, 2008
• 947455 FIX: A file that is deleted from the source branch still exists in the target branch after you perform a merge operation in Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server Q947455 KB947455 May 30, 2008
• 950829 FIX: The children of a folder may disappear after you rename the folder and check in the changes in Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server Q950829 KB950829 May 28, 2008
• 953004 Error TF31001 ("The request failed with HTTP status 403: Forbidden") accessing Team Foundation Server from Team Explorer Q953004 KB953004 May 23, 2008
• 951801 How to: Is there a 64-bit version of Visual Studio 2005 or Visual Studio 2008? Q951801 KB951801 May 23, 2008
• 951336 VS Debugger seems to hang when you start debugging Q951336 KB951336 May 23, 2008
• 950176 VCRuntime: Command line option syntax error. Type Command /? for Help. Q950176 KB950176 May 23, 2008
• 953345 You are not Prompted to Edit a file under Source Control when you begin making changes Q953345 KB953345 May 19, 2008
• 953183 Problems Upgrading Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2005 to 2008 when using Fully Qualified Domain Names (FQDN) Q953183 KB953183 May 14, 2008
• 950519 FIX: The SIDs of Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server users do not change when you use the "TFSAdminUtil Sid" command together with the /Change option Q950519 KB950519 May 13, 2008
• 948677 FIX: A triggered build does not occur after the build frequency interval elapses in Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server Q948677 KB948677 May 13, 2008
• 947783 VC++: Unable to selectively disable C4505 warnings using #pragma warning Q947783 KB947783 May 13, 2008
• 952977 Error "The process cannot access the file..." performing source control operations against Microsoft Team Foundation Server Q952977 KB952977 May 12, 2008
• 952976 Users of Team Foundation Server moved between domains must be added to Team Foundation Server anew Q952976 KB952976 May 12, 2008
• 949255 FIX: Error message when you use the Team Foundation Server feature in Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server: "A run-time error Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Client.BuildServerException" Q949255 KB949255 May 12, 2008
• 952692 Upgrading Windows SharePoint Services from version 2.0 to 3.0 after upgrading Team Foundation Server 2005 to version 2008 Q952692 KB952692 May 5, 2008
• 950262 List of changes and fixed issues for Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 Beta for Visual C&#43;&#43; Q950262 KB950262 May 1, 2008
• 951846 List of changes and fixed issues for Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 Beta for Data Projects Q951846 KB951846 April 30, 2008
• 950265 List of changes and fixed issues for Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 Beta for Windows Presentation Foundation Designer Q950265 KB950265 April 30, 2008
• 950261 List of changes and fixed issues for Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 Beta for Visual Web Developer 2008 Q950261 KB950261 April 30, 2008
• 946260 FIX: Error message when you check in a UTF-8 or UTF-16 encoding file and then update the warehouse in Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server: "An unexpected exception occurred while calculating code churn" Q946260 KB946260 April 30, 2008
• 951844 List of changes and fixed issues for Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 Beta for Windows SDK Q951844 KB951844 April 29, 2008
• 949258 List of changes and fixed issues for Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 Beta for the Visual Studio Tools for Office System 3.0 Runtime Q949258 KB949258 April 29, 2008
• 952284 Error "Team Foundation Server could not resolve the user or group..." adding members to Microsoft Team Foundation server Q952284 KB952284 April 28, 2008
• 952043 In Visual Studio a SourceSafe Get returns Unexpected error encountered on Line number: 5907 Q952043 KB952043 April 22, 2008
• 951976 TFS 2008 Problem with Area/Iteration after Doing a Move Q951976 KB951976 April 21, 2008
• 951949 Problem: Native DLL loaded from .NET application can fail if it requests too much memory at startup Q951949 KB951949 April 18, 2008
• 951948 VSS 2005: 'Your source control plug-in caused an exception or reported a fatal error Q951948 KB951948 April 18, 2008
• 951867 "No pending changes were found" error checking in changes to Team Foundation Server Source Code Control Q951867 KB951867 April 17, 2008
• 951798 SqlException errors when performing Team Foundation Server version control tasks Q951798 KB951798 April 16, 2008
• 951756 TFS: Processing OLAP failed, Login failed for user 'NT AUTHORITY\ANONYMOUS LOGON' Q951756 KB951756 April 16, 2008
• 951702 TFS 2005 Recommended Pre-Upgrade Steps Q951702 KB951702 April 15, 2008
• 945273 FIX: The Visual C++ 2008 Libraries Extension Feature Pack is available Q945273 KB945273 April 15, 2008
• 951592 Error TF50309 in the Application Event log running a Team Foundation Server Build Q951592 KB951592 April 10, 2008
• 951588 Files added to Team Foundation Server Source Code Control do not appear in Solution Explorer Q951588 KB951588 April 10, 2008
• 951540 How to create a custom subscription on Team Foundation Server to be alerted of a failed build Q951540 KB951540 April 9, 2008
• 951411 No Source Control provider available in Visual Studio Team Foundation Server Q951411 KB951411 April 7, 2008
• 951381 Value for field 'XXXXX' is not of the right type Q951381 KB951381 April 7, 2008
• 947180 FIX: Error message when a user-defined function specifies the data source in a data-driven unit test in Visual Studio 2008 Team System: "The unit test adapter failed to connect to the data source or to read the data" Q947180 KB947180 April 7, 2008
• 951234 Error 1731.The source installation package for the product Microsoft Office Visual Web Developer 2007 is out of sync with the client package. Q951234 KB951234 April 2, 2008
• 950893 Description of the TFSQuiesce Team Foundation Server component Q950893 KB950893 March 26, 2008
• 950743 User cannot access Source Control in a new Team Foundation Project. Q950743 KB950743 March 21, 2008
• 950624 Error "The identity XXX is not a recognized domain identity" with custom subscriptions in Team Foundation Server Q950624 KB950624 March 20, 2008
• 950606 How to query Team Foundation Server Source Code Control user permissions Q950606 KB950606 March 20, 2008
• 950436 Web project files are copied into wwwroot instead of subfolder under solution file folder when "open from source control" Q950436 KB950436 March 17, 2008
• 950365 TFSVersionDetection.exe utility extends Team Foundation Server trial and pre-release edition periods Q950365 KB950365 March 14, 2008
• 950174 Upgrading Windows SharePoint Services from version 2.0 to 3.0 after upgrading Team Foundation Server 2005 to version 2008 Q950174 KB950174 March 10, 2008
• 949476 Moving files between projects in Solution Explorer removes source control history, breaking merge capabilities Q949476 KB949476 March 10, 2008
• 948468 Applications Using Older ATL Components May Experience Conflicts With DEP Q948468 KB948468 March 10, 2008
• 949945 Problem: Building a VC++ DLL returns error LNK1189 when there are too many exports Q949945 KB949945 March 4, 2008
• 949890 How to rollback undesirable change in source control Q949890 KB949890 February 29, 2008
• 949885 How To: Output Trace string on machine where Visual Studio is not installed Q949885 KB949885 February 29, 2008
• 949873 Using Microsoft Team Foundation Sever 2008 from Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 for Source Code Control and Build Q949873 KB949873 February 29, 2008
• 949803 Microsoft Team Foundation Server Integration in Microsoft Project is broken after editing the Microsoft Project Mapping File Q949803 KB949803 February 27, 2008
• 949753 Problem: MFC Document Interface ON_UPDATE_COMMAND_UI exception handling Q949753 KB949753 February 26, 2008
• 949668 Deleted Projects show up in Team Explorer Q949668 KB949668 February 25, 2008
• 949534 Error "Critical error of Source Control Provider. Please restart IDE." using Team Foundation Server MSSCCI Provider Q949534 KB949534 February 21, 2008
• 949517 Stack Size Monitoring Tools Q949517 KB949517 February 21, 2008
• 949467 Not having option to view document history in team explorer Q949467 KB949467 February 20, 2008
• 945855 The Visual Studio 2008 CTP lets developers use Visual Studio 2008 together with SQL Server 2008 February CTP Q945855 KB945855 February 19, 2008
• 949254 Incorrect source control file status with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Explorer for Team Foundation Server Q949254 KB949254 February 15, 2008
• 949252 TF50322 unrecognized project name after converting project from Perforce Q949252 KB949252 February 15, 2008
• 949171 Assertion Failure When Sorting STL Vector using Custom Predicate Q949171 KB949171 February 13, 2008
• 948989 Access violation when class method is called via pointer-to-member-function for forward-declared class Q948989 KB948989 February 8, 2008
• 948986 VS 2005:error C2011: 'ICOMAdminCatalog' : 'struct' type redefinition Q948986 KB948986 February 8, 2008
• 948938 Error C2039: 'GetAsDBTIMESTAMP' : is not a member of ATL::COleDateTime Q948938 KB948938 February 8, 2008
• 948916 "Request timed out" and unable to open the workitem using Team System Web Access Q948916 KB948916 February 7, 2008
• 948860 VC++ build, Warning XDC0017 : Unrecognized XDCMake option: /validate Q948860 KB948860 February 7, 2008
• 948855 Application will not read the changes made to app.config or machine.config at runtime Q948855 KB948855 February 6, 2008
• 948783 System.OutOfMemoryException error from Team Foundation Server Version Control executing a large GET Q948783 KB948783 February 5, 2008
• 948679 Team Foundation Server team project creation may fail after a user account is deleted and recreated in Active Directory Q948679 KB948679 February 1, 2008
• 945356 The Permission Calculator may add exaggerated permissions or overly restrictive permissions to the application in Visual Studio 2008 Q945356 KB945356 January 30, 2008
• 948256 TFS 2005 Error when Importing Microsoft Project Task into TFS Q948256 KB948256 January 25, 2008
• 948167 Galsync with Identity Lifecycle Manager 2007 or Microsoft Identity Integraion Server 2003 may not work properly after the code is recompiled with Visual Studio 2005 or 2008 Q948167 KB948167 January 24, 2008
• 948054 How to GET just the objects from a specific Microsoft Team Foundation Server Soure Code Control changeset Q948054 KB948054 January 22, 2008
• 947894 ARM compiler emulates floating-point operations even when "Enable Floating Point Emulation" equals "No" Q947894 KB947894 January 18, 2008
• 947623 Error message when you pass a lambda expression to a late-bound method call that is nested inside another late-bound method call in Visual Basic 2008: "Expression does not produce a value" Q947623 KB947623 January 18, 2008