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re: Team Foundation Server 2010 Key Concepts

Thys — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 22:48:25 GMT

Wow, that sound like a big improvement. Will it be possible to move a project from one collection to another? I am thinking on the upgrade scenario: TFS2008 has no collections and with the upgrade I can imagine that 1 server becomes 1 collection. However, I would like to make use of those collections. Would that be supported?

Regards,

Thys

Team Foundation Server 2010 Key Concepts

Shai Raiten — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:59:45 GMT

Team Foundation Server 2010 Key Concepts bharry just post a great article about TFS 2010 key concepts

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re: Team Foundation Server 2010 Key Concepts

developer — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:11:33 GMT

do gripe about new version when your current and previous versions are crapy. Fix crap before make any new concepts.

re: Team Foundation Server 2010 Key Concepts

bharry — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:03:20 GMT

Thys,

Your assumption about upgrade is exactly correct. When you upgrade a TFS 2008 server to TFS 2010, you will end up with 1 Team Project Collection. After the upgrade you will be able to break up that one collection into multiple smaller collections. However, you can never merge collections back together so I encourage people to be conservative at first until they get some experience with when they want one and when they want multiple.

Brian

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re: Team Foundation Server 2010 Key Concepts

Daniel — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:08:14 GMT

"or back up and restore an individual project"

This would mean 1 team project = 1 TPC. Is this a recommended scenario to be able to do project based backup/restore? (e.g. 50 team projects = 50 TPC's on a server, just to be able to do project based backup/restore).

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bharry's WebLog — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:21:24 GMT

Since I started with the key architectural concepts, I think the most appropriate place (though perhaps

re: Team Foundation Server 2010 Key Concepts

bharry — Fri, 01 May 2009 14:51:43 GMT

Daniel, yes, we will be recommending that people use TPCs for any boundary they want independent back up and restore. For some people this will equate to 1 TP = 1TPC. However, for many people, I expect they will have sets of very closely related projects that can live in the same TPC. In the next month or so, I'll try to write a post on the rules around TPCs - what they can and can't do and why you may or may not choose to create a separate one.

Brian

re: Team Foundation Server 2010 Key Concepts

Matthew Erwin — Fri, 01 May 2009 18:55:59 GMT

Is it too much to hope that there will be native 64-bit support or at a minimum WoW support in this release?

re: Team Foundation Server 2010 Key Concepts

bharry — Fri, 01 May 2009 19:20:38 GMT

Ask and you shall receive :) Read the pre-reqs section of this post: http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2009/04/30/tfs-2010-admin-operations-setup-improvements.aspx

Brian

re: Team Foundation Server 2010 Key Concepts

Shekhar — Mon, 11 May 2009 16:16:28 GMT

I was using VSTS last year in one of the project in testing project. It was good but was not really helpful for testing purpose. Do we have some new concept for testing execution which can help out tester.

re: Team Foundation Server 2010 Key Concepts

bharry — Mon, 11 May 2009 16:26:34 GMT

Yes, in 2010, we have a TON of new testing stuff coming. Check out http://blogs.msdn.com/amit_chatterjee

Brian

The Upgrade Experience - Team Foundation Server 2010

Bryan Krieger — Mon, 11 May 2009 20:39:58 GMT

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re: Team Foundation Server 2010 Key Concepts

Wed, 13 May 2009 16:53:48 GMT

What changes will be made around the checkin policy architecture? At what level will we be able to enable policies (TPC, Project, Branch, etc)?

And is there any improvement in the policy distribution mechanism (will we still have to distribute and set registry on each client ourselves)?

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Sunder Raman's Blog — Sun, 17 May 2009 01:50:20 GMT

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Teams WIT Tools — Sun, 17 May 2009 02:17:10 GMT

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Константин Косинский — Sun, 17 May 2009 20:57:44 GMT

В ближайшее время ожидается выпуск первой беты Visual Studio 2010 и TFS 2010, которые можно будет попробовать

re: Team Foundation Server 2010 Key Concepts

bharry — Mon, 18 May 2009 20:45:56 GMT

M, Not any significant ones in the checkin policy infrastructure itself in this release. There will still be power tools that address some of the gaps you identify - like path based scoping of checkin policies. The latest release of the Power Tools also supports distribution of checkin policied to clients.

One big difference in this release is the introduction of Gated Checkin where you can do much of your validation on the build machine and side step some of these issues.

Brian

Team Foundation Server 2010 - Where Are My Reports?

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re: Team Foundation Server 2010 Key Concepts

Subodh Sohoni — Tue, 26 May 2009 15:44:07 GMT

Can the TPC be used for implementing resource quota so that no one collection can hog the resources?

re: Team Foundation Server 2010 Key Concepts

bharry — Tue, 26 May 2009 15:53:07 GMT

Subodh,

Somewhat yes. Because a TPC is a separate SQL database, you can use all of SQL's quota mechanisms to throttle it. We don't really have any mechanism for throttling the application tier. Fortunately, the data tier is usually the bottleneck so if you throttle that, you should be in pretty good shape.

Brian

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re: Team Foundation Server 2010 Key Concepts

twitter and bisted — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 02:05:32 GMT

great, i think, perhaps.

But.. when I sync and see the log of what's changed, can i right-click on a filename and view history? or do i still have to find it in the solution file :(

can I revert a change on a file from the ui yet?

can I drag a file from the solution into the source control window to locate it?

can I see a list of files that are not on the server, and remove them all?

can I check any files for physical differences, rather than pending files, which just shows what VS is aware of?

can I have multiple changesets to keep areas i'm working on separate?

can I associate a work item by ID without having to select a query that I know contains it? or select the query all, and wait a minute for it to come up?

does the ui still flicker as i scroll down pending changes, making it difficult to see which items are checked?

when things go wrong, can I get to a clean point with a click, rather than moving the tree and force syncing all?

re: Team Foundation Server 2010 Key Concepts

bharry — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:26:22 GMT

But.. when I sync and see the log of what's changed, can i right-click on a filename and view history? or do i still have to find it in the solution file :(

>> No you have to find it either in the solution or in source control explorer. It seems like a pretty cool idea though. I'll add it to our suggestion list.

can I revert a change on a file from the ui yet?

>> I'm not sure what you mean be "revert". Do you mean undo pending change or rollback?

can I drag a file from the solution into the source control window to locate it?

>> No, why do you want to do this? You can do most everything from the solution explorer.

can I see a list of files that are not on the server, and remove them all?

>> Yes, use folder compare.

can I check any files for physical differences, rather than pending files, which just shows what VS is aware of?

>> This is just an issue from the command line, right? I've hated this behavior myself but forgot about it. I just asked that we fix it.

can I have multiple changesets to keep areas i'm working on separate?

>> Only by having more than 1 workspace or by using shelvesets.

can I associate a work item by ID without having to select a query that I know contains it? or select the query all, and wait a minute for it to come up?

>> I'm afraid not. I thought we had made Ctrl+G work for that but I just checked and it doesn't. I'll see what we can do.

does the ui still flicker as i scroll down pending changes, making it difficult to see which items are checked?

>> Could you be more specific? We've done some work to improve scrolling responsiveness but I can't say for sure without understanding more about what you are doing and seeing.

when things go wrong, can I get to a clean point with a click, rather than moving the tree and force syncing all?

>> You should be able to leave the tree in place and right click on the root in the source control explorer and do a force get to get things back in sync. Folder diff can also be your friend here.

Brian

re: Team Foundation Server 2010 Key Concepts

Tal Tikotzki — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 01:34:57 GMT

Hey,

To add to the list of questions/suggestions:

1. When branching the history of an item (file, folder etc.) in the new branch is being reset so that previous actions performed prior to the branching is emitted and are not shown.

Consider a developer trying to see the complete history of a file... nearly imposibile.

2. Would history pane refresh itself whenever a file is selected? In 2008 you had to select the file and right-click on it asking for HISTORY. That's even though the history pane is displayed showing the last file which a right-click-History was performed on.

3. When adding remarks on the check-in, a simple spell checker will be appreciated.

re: Team Foundation Server 2010 Key Concepts

jcdecker — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:03:04 GMT

At my company, we audit our applications annually, to make sure we are following our development procedures correctly.

One of the audits we do requires us to compare dates of source files to the date of the associated executable file. I currently do this by extracting my source files from VSS and comparing the last modified date on them to the date the executable file was created. This doesn't work in TFS2008, because it doesn't track this information. Audits are a big enough pain, now the source control tool I want to use appears to have been designed to make the job harder.

I had seen an entry somewhere that this was on the list of things to be addressed in TFS2010. Did it make the cut?

I work for a pretty big company (in the top 100 of the Fortune 500), and this problem will likely limit our use of TFS. I would love to see this addressed somehow.

re: Team Foundation Server 2010 Key Concepts

bharry — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:28:55 GMT

It isn't in 2010 but it's high on our list to add. Have you considered comparing the contents or a hash of the contents instead? TFS keeps an MD5 hash of every file contents. You may be able to use this to do quick compares.

Brian

re: Team Foundation Server 2010 Key Concepts

pmbAustin — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:45:27 GMT

I hope there is a plan to simplify reverting a file to a previous version. This is needlessly and senselessly complex.

When viewing a file's history, I should be able to simply right-click and select "Revert". That should check out the file for edit, get that specific version locally, and allow me to simply do a check-in to revert the file to its previous state.

I cannot fathom why such a fundamental feature wasn't present in version 1.0, let alone still not present in TFS2008.

A changeset should be similarly easy to revert all at once, atomically.

No "power tools" or jumping through unintuitive hoops should be required.

re: Team Foundation Server 2010 Key Concepts

bharry — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:43:59 GMT

In some ways yes and in some ways, I'm afraid not. Yes, we built rollback into the TFS 2010 product. It is faster, lacks some of the side effects of the Power Tools version and handles merge history correctly.

The unfortunate thing is that, for now, it is command line only. I agree with you that it should be an option in the history window but we did not get the opportunity to do that in this release. We will add it there as soon as we can.

Brian

re: Team Foundation Server 2010 Key Concepts

Jerry Brown — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:28:53 GMT

I was really hoping I would see a shift in how you implement check-in policies. Currently, your implementation is terrible. Check-in policies should be enforced from the server only, and there should not be any need for distributing client DLLs (a total hassle), or registry modifications (utter lunacy). This really puts us into a bind, with developers (both in-house and contract) coming in and out, since we really don't have time to deal with trying to track who needs the client, who has the client, and redeploys in the event of a small change in a policy. This is pretty disappointing.

re: Team Foundation Server 2010 Key Concepts

bharry — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:57:43 GMT

It's clear we need more work on checkin policies, but progress is being made. First, we shipped a capability in the Power Tools about a year ago to automatically distribute checkin policies to people's machines.

Second in 2010, we added gated checkin that allows you to execute checkin policies on a build server to validate them before checkin and not rely on what happens on developer desktops.

I'm not saying we're done but we're making progress.

Brian

re: Team Foundation Server 2010 Key Concepts

joe bowers — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:48:30 GMT

Hi Brian,

We are on Team Server 2005 currently, and I've installed the Beta 2 of 2010. So far I am really impressed.

My question is this - are there step by step instructions somewhere to do a Database migration out of our old data out of the old system and into the new one?

Another question: we only want to migrate 3 of our existing Team Projects (not all of them) into a single, new Collection. Can we selectively do that?

Thanks for all of the information you provide!

Joe

re: Team Foundation Server 2010 Key Concepts

bharry — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:16:04 GMT

Check out this post: http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2009/10/21/upgrading-from-tfs-2005-2008-to-tfs-2010.aspx

You should be able to do everything you mentioned.

Brian