This is my first post, and these days are my first days at Microsoft . So, let's start together to learn more about the product I'm working on: Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (VSTFS) . We have a lot of great features and I was lucky enough to use...

Do you usually need to keep multiple copies of your sources, for instance, different versions, copies to test, your mates' code, or what have you? You'll need to use workspaces. A workspace is self-explanatory; it's a space that contains your work. A...

This July, TFS Power Tools introduce new features, one of which is the Alerts Editor. You can read all about the new features here: http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2008/07/08/july-08-tfs-power-tool-preview.aspx

Well, the answer to this one is pretty easy and straight-forward. You can accomplish that using a check-in policy. For example, to force users to link check-ins to work items that are not closed, you may do the following: Add a Team Query to the desired...

If you have an IDE that uses the MSSCCI provider, like VS 2003 or VB6, and you want to switch between TFS and VSS because you have projects on both systems, you will have to change the provider every time you switch. The thing is that setting is stored...

You can use tfpt history /followbranches to follow the history of an item across branches. We are looking into supporting this in the history dialog in the next version . You can see which versions are ported over during the merge operation if you use...

You can run: tf diff /shelveset:shelvesetName;DOMAIN\ownerUserName Please note that this will diff the shelved changes against the unmodified version, not necessarily the latest version, just like what the you get from clicking compare in the shelveset...

protected (C# Reference)

One of the new features added in VSTF 2008 SP1 is that you can switch to another branch in your workspace and you don’t need to download all the files of the new branch. TFS will only download the files that differ in the new branch, if you use tf get...

You can use the administration web service, if you have permission, to kill a process on the server. Open up http://TFS:8080/VersionControl/v1.0/administration.asmx and invoke QueryServerRequests to get the process ID of the process you want to kill,...

In a previous post , we used the command-line to list the changes in a shelveset. This time we are going to use an API to get the changes by calling: VersionControlServer.QueryShelvedChanges You have to be a valid user that can connect to Version Control...

There’s no direct way to do that. Multiple check-out is a property of a team project, it's not namespace specific. However, I can think of 2 alternatives using use the " Lock " feature, because that’s what TFS does when a team projects is set to exclusive...

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Partial Classes and Methods (C# Programming Guide)

Using Windbg, aka Debugging Tools for Windows , is a great way for debugging, crash analysis, and reading dump files. If you’re not a keyboard person who likes to write commands and be in the driver’s seat, you might not like it at the first glance, but...

base (C# Reference)

It has been a while since the last time I wrote some C code, since I come from a C++ background, hence I seldom use scanf(). Without going into many details for the reasons why one should use scanf or cin , I just want to point out one difference on return...

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While merging or comparing files using the DiffMerge tool, and files have different encoding, you will see this message: "The character encodings on these files are different. Only files with the same character encoding can be merged or compared." If...

First, you need to decide whether to create the custom header using the MessageHeader.CreateHeader method, or by extending the abstract MessageHeader class. Under the hood, the CreateHeader method returns an instance of an internal class called XmlObjectSerializerHeader...

In C++, if you call a virtual function form a constructor, it won’t be polymorphic, meaning that the following code won’t behave as you may have expected: class Foo { public : Foo() { whoAmI() ; } virtual void whoAmI() { cout << "Foo::whoAmI()"...

Beta 2 is here , give it a try and let us know what do you think.

One of the useful design patterns is the proxy design pattern, it allows you to control access to an object via a proxy and also saves you the startup and cleanup overheads as you instantiate only what you use upon request (lazy initialization). Take...

Inheritance (C# Programming Guide)

Attach the debugger to the process Load SOS ~* e !clrstack to view the CLR stack of all the threads and where they are Look for System.Threading.Monitor.Enter(System.Object) in the top frames Load SOSEX.dll from http://www.stevestechspot.com...