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Who am I?
Well this is an interesting topic for contemplation on some “Mystical Philosophies” that I am not going to bore you with. I have a much more straight forward answer to this question: I am a developer working on Microsoft’s soon to be released super product “Visual Studio Team System”. I work on a tool called VSSConverter that migrates data from existing VSS databases to Visual Studio Team Foundation.
Another description for me could be “The most dedicated tester for Xbox outside of Xbox team”. Well a large part of my day is spent in fighting it out with other “microsofties” on the Xbox arena. Check out Abhinaba's blog for more details. PS: this picture was taken at 1 am in the night.

Past:
I graduated from IT BHU in Computer Engineering in 2002. Joined HCL Technologies NOIDA from campus. I was there for 18 months when i got an offer from Microsoft India and i jumped at it:). I have been here since March 2004 and its been a great experiance.

November 2005 - Posts

Wednesday, November 30, 2005 2:07 PM

Thread.Abort() on a thread executing a Finally/Catch or .ctor block.

Issue: If a thread t is in some catch or finally or cctor block, calling t.Abort() from another thread does not have any effect on the thread. Here is the code to repro this. using System; using System.Threading; namespace ConsoleApplication2 { class

Posted by ankur | 4 Comments

Filed under: General-Tech

Saturday, November 26, 2005 1:35 PM

Migration of partial history from VSS to TeamFoundation

I have an VSS repository i have been using for past 5 years but i do not care for history beyond 2 years. Moving to Teaamfoundation i would like to discard that history. How do i do that? Either you can use archieve feature in VSS to remove that history

Posted by ankur | 0 Comments

Filed under: Converters

Saturday, November 26, 2005 10:42 AM

Incremantal migration with VSSConverter

Why incremental migration? Case 1: Migration takes a lot of time so I will migraqte a copy of my VSS repository and continue working on the original. after migration of copy I will migrate the delta between original and copy. Case 2: Migration was stopped