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Awesome - can't wait to try it out! - from the sound of it though no Shelving support?  I thought I remember you posting and saying that you were working on that???

Looks good, any word on updated powertoys yet?

Actually shelving is supported in the MSSCCI provider.  You access it through the checkin dialog.  It's a bit of a wierd way to get to it but we are limited by the extensibility points that MSSCCI provides.

We're working on a new release of the tfpt power toy.  I'm hoping to blog about it real soon as there is some really awesome stuff coming in it.  On the other hand it's likely to be a month or two before it is available so I don't want to get people drooling too much before it is available :)

Brian

I see that the issue related to branching in TFS and the MSSCCI provider for use with VS2003 did not get included in the latest relesease.

Integration between TFS and VS2003 without this feature is horrible at best.  The main reason my company is looking to convert to TFS from VSS is TFS's ability to do branching.  If the middleware piece cannot support branching properly then I am dead in the water.  The alternatives given (manually change the TFS path reference in the project files, or rebind each branch to the proper TFS path) will not work for me because I have 70+ project files, and there is no way I could manually edit them for each branch and manage all that during the merge process.  

Do you have any idea of the priority of this feature within microsoft and when it might be available?  

I cannot imagine how this is not an absolute deal breaker for anyone trying to implement TFS with VS2003.  I have worked very hard to convince my company of how great this product is, or promises to be, and I am flat on my butt right now.  Thoughts?  

I just need to be able to figure out a time frame for when I can expect the feature so that I can move forward with the planning of our conversion.  I am worried that maybe this is a difficult issue to fix, and that is why it did not make the last release, and may be a year away from being resolved.

Thanks much!  I'm not trying to be harsh, I'm just a little desparate right now!  I don't want all my work to go to waste.

Any updates on when this might be fixed?  We've just moved to TFS from Subversion and this is going to cause some MAJOR adoption pain.

Hi bharry!,

I can try out your early drop if you want. Please send it to my email address :

patrik.cedendahl@sandvik.com

//Patrik

Hello Brian,

Where can I try this 'new drop' of the MSSCCI provider?  I also have many solutions that needs to be branched.

Hiren

hirenbpatel at yahoo dot com

I would also like to try the new drop.  How do I get it?

Do you know if the MSSCCI provider will allow me to connect my Dreamweaver designers into TFS?  I have read some documentation stating that Dreamweaver is compliant with MSSCCI and others stating it really isn't.  

Do you know of anyone with success at this?

<Quote>In fact I found one blog post where someone was saying they had gotten it to work with the TFS provider.</Quote>

I would very much like to see that post.

I've only found information (http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=738771&SiteID=1) indicating that Dreamweaver has it's own specific integration module with Visual SourceSafe 6 and does not use the open MSSCCI interface and hence cannot work with the TFS MSSCCI provider.

I also haven't been able to find a plugin for Dreamweaver that DOES use the MSSCCI interface. Anyone who has?

Marco

Per hakel's reply about TFS branching issues with VS .NET 2003 and MSSCCI, has a fix been provided for this problem yet?  This too is a *huge* painpoint for our adoption and conversion from VSS 6 to TFS.

We have over 155 solution files and xyz project files, so it's not realistic for us to modify the SccProjectName paths by hand everytime we perform branching (and we too would like to make heavy use of branching to solve many of our parallel development and releasing issues).

Info about when the fix for this will be available would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

Joseph

Brian,

Any updates on this fix? My customer is complaining and it is holding up their adoption of TFS.

Thanks,

Cris

Cris,

the branching problem has been fixed over a year ago in TFS Msscci 1.2. The detailed information and limitations are described here

http://blogs.msdn.com/michalma/archive/2006/12/20/msscci-1-2-arrived.aspx

Met maar liefst 48 bezoekers, was de DotNed meeting van 25-9-2008 over TFS 2008 wederom weer een succes....