TFS 2010 for SourceSafe Users

re: TFS 2010 for SourceSafe Users

Brian Harry MS — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 11:58:16 GMT

@gayathri, Here: www.microsoft.com/.../downloads Download Team Foundation Server Express.

Brian

re: TFS 2010 for SourceSafe Users

gayathri — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 11:49:20 GMT

Thanks for the nice post. where can i download this TFS for windows 7 ultimate.?

pls help

re: TFS 2010 for SourceSafe Users

Brian Harry MS — Tue, 08 May 2012 17:59:38 GMT

There are some reports build into Microsoft Test Manager. However, the expectation is that for custom reporting you'd use Excel or some other tool against the data warehouse to build the additional visualizations you want.

This article series looks like a good start: visualstudiomagazine.com/.../tfs-reporting-with-excel-1.aspx

And here's a pretty thorough documentation topic on it: msdn.microsoft.com/.../bb649552.aspx

Brian

re: TFS 2010 for SourceSafe Users

win2xl — Tue, 08 May 2012 15:11:57 GMT

Great Post Brian . I got my hands on with Microsoft Test manager and does have very user firendly interface. I was wondering if TFS 2010 has reporting capabilities. Please let me know if I can generate reports using Microsoft Test Manager. Appreciate your help.

Thanks

re: TFS 2010 for SourceSafe Users

Ahmed Ilyas — Thu, 03 May 2012 14:41:39 GMT

Sadly BH - some people need to learn and they just dont get it. Well said nonetheless.

It annoys me when they just dont get it or even know how to use a product and start blaming the product company (i.e MS) for their own sillyness and no understanding of how evolution works and what a product lifecycle is and how things progress....

just to add - I honestly never had many issues with VSS - because I knew how it worked and also got the right documentation and training to use software....

re: TFS 2010 for SourceSafe Users

Brian Harry MS — Thu, 03 May 2012 13:33:49 GMT

I wouldn't normally respond to a comment like this but you've pissed me off. I'll probably regret it but here it goes. Dude, do you understand when SourceSafe was written? We started building it Jan 1st 1992. Virtually every version control system in the planet was a flat file storage system. Windows 3.1 was state of the art. Most people used DOS and a "server process" was called a "TSR" (that's true but is a joke none-the-less). Novell was king of servers and they had crap for a server programming model. Windows/NT didn't exist. Client/server was just starting to be talked about. The internet (as you think of it today) didn't exist. PC based databases were nowhere. RCS and SCCS were king and they used the same architecture.

In it's day SourceSafe was state of the art. Further, it changed the world. It was the first version control system with a decent GUI. It made version control approachable for a mass of people for whom version control wasn't even a consideration. It was simple and flexible. In no time it grew to be the most popular version version control system in the world.

I'm proud of what we did. Yes it had issues. Yes, it's very dated now. In 2002, when we decided to build TFS, we picked a completely different architecture - for a reason. A lot had changed in 10 years. When you've produced something millions of people have used and loved, let me know.

Brian

re: TFS 2010 for SourceSafe Users

George S — Thu, 03 May 2012 06:11:59 GMT

You did the world a real disservice when you created Visual SourceSafe. What were you thinking when you decided to use a file-share method, instead of db method? Did you think that you'd cause corruption, and unreliable source control operations? Unix had reliable source control when you created SourceSafe. You inflicted a flawed product on developers for years. Great job, not!

re: TFS 2010 for SourceSafe Users

Hemant Gupta — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 12:56:35 GMT

Can I use VWD 2010 and TFS client if so how?

re: TFS 2010 for SourceSafe Users

Brian Harry MS — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 00:03:23 GMT

Yes, it shipped as an installation option for TFS 2010. There's only one TFS product and "Basic" is one of the install wizards. You can get TFS 2010 a number of ways. It comes with your VS + MSDN subscription, for example. If you don't get it any other way, you can buy it separately for $500 (list price) and it includes a license for up to 5 users to use it.

Brian

re: TFS 2010 for SourceSafe Users

Patrick — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 22:41:54 GMT

Is TFS Basic available now and at what cost?