This issue have been reported multiple times and I just wanted to get why it is happening out there: Windows allows a maximum of 15 icon overlays in the system even Windows 7 ( http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2009/12/09/9934348.aspx...

The team members component of the TFS power tools (available here ) has a feature to help TFS users distribute custom check-in policies and WIT controls. Basically, the administrator would add the dlls containing the policies and components to a special...

A couple of weeks ago I received a question from one of our clients regarding whether the Team Members power tool work with Lync or not. Today I had a chance to test the team members power tool with Lync. All Team Members should and are working properly...

If you are utilizing the new TFS 2010 branch folder feature you can easily list the branch hierarchy in source control using the code below: 1: using System; 2: using Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client; 3: using Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl...

I have been asked to give a quick overview of how TFS internally works to one of my colleagues here and I figured out that my drawings can be used to explain the architecture to our users as well so I scanned them and put them together in the embedding...

I am a soccer fan, I also watch tennis & basketball but only soccer gets to me. A couple of weeks ago Netherlands and Spain played in the world cup final . Originally, I did not know which team I really wanted to win, I always loved Netherlands (I...

Basically, the team members power tool displays the list of users in the “[TEAMPROJECT]\Contributors” group of your team project recursively. To customize which group is the one to be displayed you can right click on the team project –> Team Project...

Team Members – Customize your IM Address Last week Brian Harry announced the availability of the TFS 2010 Power tools in one of his blog posts . I had the pleasure to work on the Team Members power tool enhancements for this release which are: Customized...

1: using System; 2: using System.Collections.Generic; 3: using System.Linq; 4:   5: namespace LambdaExpressionDemo 6: { 7: interface IValidator 8: { 9: bool Validate(); 10: ...

In my last post about Visualizing Change using TFS 2010 I mentions that I am going to post some answers about different questions I usually get asked by other software engineers when I mention that I work for the TFS team. In this post I will list the...

Last week I had the honor to present a subset of the features we developed for version control in TFS 2010 at RDUCC . In this presentation I introduced the audience to branches and what advantages we get by defining a branching model and adhering to it...

I am a Software Design Engineer in Test working for the TFS Version Control team. I a have been on the team for more than two years now. I have worked on a lot of interesting features for the upcoming TFS release TFS2010. I will be blogging about Version...