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Thursday, September 29, 2005 9:11 PM

Using Source Code Control in Team Foundation

Chris Menegay's article on MSDN, Using Source Code Control in Team Foundation , provides a good overview of some of the major features. As a part of Visual Studio 2005 Team System and the new Team Foundation Server, Microsoft is providing a true enterprise-class
Posted by buckh | 2 Comments
Tuesday, September 27, 2005 8:14 AM

VSS converter for TFS beta 3

Akash Maheshwari , PM for the source control converters for TFS, has posted a set of articles on using the VSS converter with TFS beta 3 . You'll want to check that out if you are converting from VSS, because that's the most up-to-date source of information
Posted by buckh | 0 Comments
Monday, September 26, 2005 10:29 PM

Why are there two Source Control entries on the File menu?

If you add the Code Analysis check-in policy to your Team Project, you'll see two entries for Source Control on the File menu in VS, as shown below. All of the standard menu items for TFS source control are under the second Source Control entry. The issue
Posted by buckh | 0 Comments
Monday, September 26, 2005 1:46 PM

The 10,000th Changeset

Back on July 13, I wrote about the dates of changeset "milestones" in our dogfood system . Today we hit changeset 10,000. The time between 9000 and 10000 was longer than usual because of check-in restrictions in place leading up to beta 3 (bug fixes had
Posted by buckh | 1 Comments
Thursday, September 22, 2005 8:48 AM

Active Directory is no longer required with Team Foundation Beta 3

There have been a lot of requests from folks wanting to use TFS without Active Directory. Since several questions and answers in comments on Jeff Beehler's blog dealt with this, I thought it's worth mentioning in a post that TFS beta 3 supports workgroup
Posted by buckh | 2 Comments
Wednesday, September 21, 2005 10:37 PM

Team Foundation Beta 3 has been released!

Today we signed off on Team Foundation Beta 3! If you used beta 2, beta 3 is a vast improvement. Beta 3 should hopefully show up on MSDN in about two days. You may remember that beta 3 has the go-live license and will be supported for migration to the
Posted by buckh | 23 Comments
Wednesday, September 21, 2005 9:43 AM

Working remotely with TFS Version Control

Here in North Carolina, we have a 10Mb connection to the outside world (it was a 3Mb connection until a few months ago), so we know what it's like to use TFS remotely. In addition to minimizing the number of requests from the client to the server, TFS
Posted by buckh | 9 Comments
Tuesday, September 20, 2005 9:23 AM

Outlook macro to create work item and changeset hyperlinks

[NOTE: If this post looks truncated, scroll down or make the browser window wider. The style sheet causes this.] Ed Hintz, a dev lead on the TFS Version Control team, sends a lot of email with TFS work item numbers. Work items can be viewed (not edited)
Posted by buckh | 3 Comments
Monday, September 19, 2005 12:51 PM

Continuous Integration Demo Code from Doug Neumann's TLN301 PDC Talk

Doug Neumann's TLN301 presentation, VSTS: Behind the Scenes of Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server ( slides ), featured a demonstration of how to use the server's check-in event notification to kick off a build for a continuous integration build
Posted by buckh | 7 Comments
Monday, September 12, 2005 3:14 PM

Doug Neumann on Channel 9

Doug Neumann, one of our esteemed Program Managers, is in a short video on Channel 9 talking about our office, version control, the proxy, etc. He and Mario, our other version control PM, are at PDC this week. Doug Neumann - Source Code control guy on
Posted by buckh | 1 Comments
Sunday, September 11, 2005 8:00 AM

How wide is a string when displayed in the console window?

Not too long ago, I had to fix the command line output for tf.exe, the Team Foundation Version Control command line app, so that output would be formatted properly for console windows (cmd.exe) using double-byte code pages. The code originally computed
Posted by buckh | 2 Comments
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Saturday, September 10, 2005 10:00 AM

How TFS Version Control determines a file's encoding

TFS Version Control will automatically detect a file's encoding based upon the following. First, a file with a Unicode byte order mark (BOM) is added as that particular type (UTF-8, UTF-16 big endian, UTF-16 little endian, etc.). If a file doesn't have
Posted by buckh | 1 Comments
Friday, September 09, 2005 11:16 PM

Team Foundation Version Control client API example

Here's a really simple example that uses the Beta 3 version control API.
Posted by buckh | 7 Comments
 
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