You have just upgraded to TFS 2010 and you are salivating to take advantage of the awesome new branch visualization tools that you have seen over at channel 9 or many other places and you are wondering what exactly you need to do to take advantage of...

Recently I have a received a few emails asking questions about how to use the version control client APIs to create workspaces and check in files with the most recent one also asking if it could be used with TFS Impersonation to record the check ins as...

If you are familiar with the TFS 2008 client object model then I am sure you have interacted with the TeamFoundationServer object that lived in the Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client namespace.  It is the starting point for all communication with a...

Updated 4/21/2010: The Windows patch to solve this problem has been released.  It can be found here . Recently, while dogfooding our internal pioneer server, a few members of our team started to notice this error message when downloading files from...

If you have started playing with one of the TFS 2010 betas then you have probably noticed the new snazzy connect dialog: For those of you new to TFS 2010, the pane on the left above shows the list of “Team Project Collections” that exist on the TFS Instance...

Along with sharing information about TFS, another purpose for this blog will be to share general tips and tricks that I come across while coding.  I have really been trying to improve my SQL Server coding and debugging skills lately so expect SQL...

In today’s software world supporting backward and forward compatibility between different versions of clients and servers for a given product is usually both a headache and a hard-requirement from the customer.  When writing a client application...

One of the many things I will be covering in this blog will be the Team Foundation Server APIs and the functionality they offer.  The first example of this will be the new TFS Impersonation API that is new in TFS 2010. Disclaimer: The code presented...

Hello!  If you couldn’t tell from the title of the blog (or if I have undoubtedly changed it) my name is Taylor Lafrinere.  I joined the Team Foundation Server group on July 16, 2007 and have been working as a part of the Enterprise TFS Management...