Matt Mitrik

I came across a very cool extension for Source Control Explorer today, and thought it was worth sharing more broadly.  The TFSSCExplorerExtension is hosted on Visual Studio Gallery, and it adds a number of very useful features: Move to Folder – Allows...

This week I received my copy of one of the latest books on TFS: Professional Team Foundation Server 2010 .  This book is a great reference for anyone that is working with TFS and is looking for more deep knowledge on setup, administration, advanced...

Ed Hintz just posted a great guide for former SVN users that are moving to TFS.  He covers a bit of the conceptual differences, and produced a table mapping the most common SVN commands to their equivalent TFS commands. Check it out here: http:/...

In my last post, I told users about a client side hack that we added to change the default check-in action from “Resolve” to “Associate”.  Most of the time I’ve heard questions about this, it is because a team has customized their process template...

I’ve heard this one a lot lately from many people, so I felt it was time to share more broadly. While there is no way to do this in the UI in TFS 2010, there is a registry key that we added late in our release cycle to allow users to configure the...

Over the weekend, our team released the first fully supported version of the Team Foundation Server Integration Tools. This suite of tools has been developed by the TFS product group with help from the Visual Studio ALM Rangers to provide a comprehensive...

I’ve been working with our content team to help publish some guidance on MSDN around using workspaces.  To date, it has been one of the biggest points of confusion for users that are new to TFS, so we made a point to create new topics with those...

I came across this question while responding to some customer suggestions, so I thought I should make the answer easy to find should others be wondering the same thing… In the UI, history of folders is recursive - always .  This is because most of...

Recently, I blogged about an issue in the TFS 2010 upgrade that affected the contents of labels and merge relationships.  If you have not yet upgraded to TFS 2010, the hotfix is now available and is highly recommended to be applied before configuring...

Today we published a KB article for a recently discovered issue when upgrading from TFS 2005/2008 to TFS 2010.  This issue exhibits symptoms in both merge and labels – from the KB: Labels that were created before the upgrade are entirely empty. ...

Recently, we published a KB article that is related to files being downloaded from version control with the incorrect contents. The symptoms from the article: After restoring a Team Project Collection (TPC) from a backup, files downloaded from Team...

We recently found an issue in the Team Explorer 2010 client while performing backwards compatibility testing, and unfortunately, this wasn’t a bug that we were able to fix for RTM.  This issue will be documented in the RTM ReadMe, but I wanted to...

Several people have noticed that in TFS 2010 the option to branch by label in the UI is no longer present, so I wanted to put up a short post on the subject until we have a chance to fix this (which will hopefully be very near RTM). This change was the...

This is the seventh blog post in a series about Upgrade and Migration for TFS . In some migration scenarios, neither upgrading servers nor losing history are viable options: “I have Team Projects I need to migrate from one existing TFS 2008 server...

This is the sixth blog post in a series about Upgrade and Migration for TFS . Thus far, all of the recommended approaches for scenarios involving migrations of data between TFS 2010 servers have started with upgrade. For some customers, upgrade may...

This is the fifth blog post in a series about Upgrade and Migration for TFS . A common migration scenario is one involving moving Team Projects between servers: “I have a Team Project on one TFS server that I need to migrate to another TFS server” This...

This is the fourth blog post in a series about Upgrade and Migration for TFS . There are some customers that present migration scenarios that are focused on hardware changes: “I want to migrate my TFS server to a new set of hardware” In the case of an...

This is the third blog post in a series about Upgrade and Migration for TFS . Sometimes, customers present more complex scenarios that aren’t solved by a simple upgrade: “I have two TFS 2008 servers that I need to migrate to a single TFS 2010 server”...

This is the second blog post in a series about Upgrade and Migration for TFS . One of the most common statements I hear from customers looking at migration is similar to the following: “I have a TFS 2005/2008 server and I want to migrate to TFS 2010”...

Being the Migration PM for the TFS team, I get a lot of “migration” questions from users.  After a few rounds of questions, most of the time the conclusion is reached that the user wanted something other than migration, say, an upgrade.  With...

Late last night, we published updates to the TFS Integration Platform on CodePlex.  In addition to these changes containing new features, numerous bug fixes, and documentation refreshes, the updates marked the beginning of the dogfooding effort to...

For a long time, we have had no home for questions related to migration offerings such as the VSS Converter, as well as general questions about our tools, partners, and service offerings.  We’ve recently added a new forum on MSDN to serve as the...

Today, we released the Alpha version of the TFS Integration Platform on CodePlex.  For all of the details, including the docs and source code, check out the project page: http://tfsintegration.codeplex.com If you check out the project page, you’ll...

In a previous blog post about the new First Class Branches that we have added in TFS 2010, I mentioned the addition of two new permissions related to branching and merging.  In this post, I want to go into a bit more detail about these permissions...

TFS 2010 Beta 2 has been out for a few days now, and I’ve heard of quite a few users hitting errors when trying to migrate their VSS databases to TFS using VSS Converter.  If you’ve hit the error message below, keep reading for a workaround that...