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Error - Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

I have a webservice that I want to subscribe to the WorkItemChangedEvent. I have tested this on my test server, but when I attempt to subscribe on my production server, I get a plain vanilla nullreference exception. That's no help.

I can navigate to the service in the browser. Here is the command line that I used to subscribe on the test server. I have been unable to make it work in any form on the productions server.

bissubscribe /eventType WorkItemChangedEvent /userId AD\\dsgtfsservice /address http://dsgts1:8080/NumberWorkItems/Service.asmx /filter "\"ChangeType\"='New'"

Any guidance would be appreciated.

++Alan

++Alan

Alan Stevens

Are you getting null reference error when running BisSubscribe.exe? Looks like we have a bug there if parameters are incorrect. See http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=567249&SiteID=1 on how it was fixed for another use. You can try specifying target server directly as suggested in that post.

http://blogs.msdn.com/narend

Naren Datha - MSFT

Naren,
Yes, I'm getting the null reference text in the subject line of this thread when calling bissubscribe.

I don't see anything in the thread you reference which describes how to specify a target server directly.

I don't believe I have incorrect parameters, because this same command line executed successfully on my identically configured test server.

Alan Stevens

This is likely a bug in the bissubscribe.exe tool itself instead of the subscription APIs it uses. So could you get yourself unblocked by trying to directly use the APIs to subscribe? You can also use GUI tool at http://blogs.msdn.com/narend/archive/2006/07/26/679440.aspx that calls APIs in turn. If you can find out how we could repro this problem in our environment here, that would help us fix the bug. You can either send those repro steps here & I can create a bug, or you can create a bug for us yourself by going to https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/CreateFeedbackForm.aspx?FeedbackFormConfigurationID=774&FeedbackType=1 (Choose Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server in the Version combo box)

Thanks.

http://blogs.msdn.com/narend

Naren Datha - MSFT

I didn't realize your tool would make SOAP subscriptions. It is VERY useful for viewing an removing SOAP subscriptions.

I'll give that a try.

++Alan

Alan Stevens

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