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Just before Holiday Season we released new version of TFS Msscci Provider - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=FAEB7636-644E-451A-90D4-7947217DA0E7&displaylang=en . Of course the biggest demand was to allow provider to work with...

After Orcas shipped, many people blogged about new big features that were included there ( http://blogs.msdn.com/jeffbe/archive/2007/11/19/visual-studio-team-system-2008-ships.aspx ). However, there are also many small improvements, transparent at first...

As you perfectly know (for example from Brian's blog , and probably hundred others), Orcas shipped. I'm extremely proud, because this is the first big MS product, that I was involved from the beginning. Noone denies importance of the Msscci provider,...

Because we are preparing Beta2 of Orcas, I started spending more and more time with the debugger and with tracing enabled in our OM (vide: http://blogs.msdn.com/michalma/archive/2006/12/08/tracing-in-tfs-msscci-provider.aspx ). As we all know there are...

As Brian posted a few days ago (together with multiple other people :) Orcas Beta1 is available here . From the Version Control perspective it contains 90% of functionality which we want provide in Orcas (some more goodies will come in the Beta2). There...

We recently discovered new IDE that works with TFS Msscci provider (well, almost ;) - eMbedded C++ 4. The only problem is that it displays often "Server Busy" message while doing SCC operations. The solution for this (until release of the new provider...

This is a very old issue, which appeared for the first time (and was resolved) in this thread . However, it comes every month or so on the forum so I want to describe here the problem and resolution in as easy way as possible. Problem: VB6 was installed...

As Brian writes in his blog we released new version of TFS Msscci Provider. Nice improvements are fixes in the property (displaying local path) and checkin (saving the work items query list between the calls) dialog. We have also changed the provider...

Recently I started testing new TFS Msscci Provider. Doing that, I discovered a few Visual Studio settings that I should turn on long time ago. What is a little irritating while working in VS2003+TFS Msscci is that when doing checkout I’m prompted to...

Tracing can be enabled in Msscci the same way as in tf.exe or devenv. In the setup directory (the one containing TfsMsscciSvr.exe) you need to create file named TfsMsscciSvr.exe.config. Here is what it should contain: <?xml version="1.0"?> ...

I wanted to do it a long time ago, but time has passed and I was forgetting about it over and over again. So finally here are some advices about using the tfpt treediff command line. First of all treediff has noprompt switch, which is not included...

As Brian has written in his blog yestarday, we have released new TFS Power Toys ( download site ). Of course I’m very proud that TFS Msscci provider started to be supported by CSS, but Msscci is not topic of the post :) One of the new powertoys is TreeDiff...

In just a few days we will release new drop of TFS Msscci Provider (keep the fingers crossed). We added support for two new IDEs and a few cool features. Here are the details: Support for Enterprise Architect 6.1 and PowerBuilder 10.5 Fixed order...

The question, which is asked quite frequently on DLs and forum is “Does TFS Msscci Provider supports check-in policies?”. The short answer is Yes J . But as usual there are some exceptions to this rule. The Provider will handle all policies in the same...

Brian Harry has announced coming release of the new version of Team Foundation Server Msscci Provider. In this release we have included: support for SQL Server Management Studio and MS Access 2003 (with Source Code Control Add-in) enhanced support...

People who start using TFS Msscci provider, usually want to keep working with the old provider (e.g. SourceSafe). Unfortunately, function to switch between different multiple Msscci providers is feature of the IDE, not of the provider. VB6, VC6 and VS...

Some folks from Poland have asked me about recruitment process and applying for Microsoft. I’ll post it in English because other people can use those information you must know English to apply (and to be successful Software Engineer at...

Some users were deterred from using the provider by unpleasant message "TFMscciSvr.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience." In all cases it was fault of strong name validation error (our binaries are not strongly...

I can’t say how happy and proud I’m about this release. This is first product (well quasi product ;) which is released, which I partly created. We included a lot of new features, both functional and performance. You can expect that I will blog about it...

I’m currently Software Development Engineer in Team Foundation Version Control Client team. I work for Microsoft, on the client-side, on the .NET platform, in USA just for few months (since October 2005). Before I was learning, studying and working in...