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Friday, June 18, 2004 9:31 PM

Out for the week

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Wednesday, June 16, 2004 1:26 PM

TechEd C# presentations

Duncan Mackenzie just posted a link to the C# TechEd 2004 page that has slides from some of the presentations (more to come). Cool!
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Wednesday, June 16, 2004 8:47 AM

VSTS pricing

There have been questions about pricing in the newsgroups . Here is what Raju Malhotra had to say about it. As I understand it, many of the pricing details have yet to be worked out and are far from being set in stone. We will share the specific pricing
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Tuesday, June 15, 2004 4:43 PM

Interfaces for the TFS source control client

The new source control system in Team Foundation will have several client interfaces. Command line The command line interface provides a complete set of commands for performing all of your source control tasks. When run interactively (i.e., the /noprompt
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Monday, June 14, 2004 5:12 PM

A simple example using branch and merge

Merge is an overloaded word. There is a content merge and then there is a branch merge. A content merge is where you have edited a file and someone checked in a newer file, so the source control system will tell you to do a content merge before checking
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Monday, June 14, 2004 4:49 PM

More on branching and merging vs. sharing and pinning

Branching and merging in TFS provide a more robust way to accomplish what sharing and pinning are often used for in VSS. In TFS, you would branch a directory (source), using the "branch source target" command, to the desired location (target). Then when
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Thursday, June 10, 2004 11:23 AM

When can I get the Team Foundation Server?

Several people have asked this question. The server is not included in the May Community Preview distributed at TechEd. Also, the server bits will not be included with the upcoming VS 2005 Beta 1 release. In fact, none of Team System will be in Beta 1,
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Thursday, June 10, 2004 10:02 AM

Migrating from SourceSafe to Team Foundation Server

We plan to provide migration tools for users switching to TFS. A VSS user asked in the newsgroup about migrating VSS labels, revision history, sharing, and pinning. The goal is migration of all data, consisting of projects, files, and folders, with associated
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Thursday, June 10, 2004 9:22 AM

12 GB CompactFlash card

Of course you can get microdrives, but if the moving parts make you nervous, Pretec offers a 12 GB flash card. It's only $14,900. Then you'll need a $60,000 digital camera to go with it. Somehow that nifty $3,000 Nikon D2H just seems inadequate. http://www.dpreview.com/news/0405/04052601pretec12gb.as
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Friday, June 04, 2004 5:46 PM

VSTS Newsgroups

The VSTS 2005 page mentions the newsgroups for VSTS (in the Community Resources section beside the "Ask the Team" column). It doesn't stand out, though, and so a lot of people may not realize they are there. The newsgroups are actively monitored by a
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Friday, June 04, 2004 1:30 PM

Branching models

Doug Neumann, our PM, posted on the Team Foundation newsgroupmicrosoft.private.whidbey.teamsystem.teamfoundation newsgroup a nice answer to a question about branching models and VSTS. Question (Carl Daniel): IEEE Computer, September 2002 issue contained
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