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Wednesday, November 30, 2005 10:10 PM

C# 3.0 features

I just read Ian Griffiths' post on C# 3.0 and LINQ - Expression Trees (linked from Jomo Fisher's C# 3.0 post , which was linked in John Rivard's Why Visual Studio targets only one version of the .NET Framework , which was in a link from Soma's Multi-targeting
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Monday, November 28, 2005 11:02 PM

Work Item Tracking will use display names for RTM

In beta 3 (including refresh) and earlier, work items have always been assigned to user names. For some organizations, that's a real problem, as the user names do not have any relationship to the user's real name. We have fixed this for RTM. Brian Harry
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Monday, November 28, 2005 1:55 PM

How to diff Word documents

John Lawrence responded to someone's question about how to diff MS Word documents, and I thought the answer would help a few more folks. Team Foundation enables you to specify different diff and merge tools for different file types. We don’t have a built
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Tuesday, November 22, 2005 2:01 PM

Team Foundation Beta 3 Virtual PC is available

The last time I wrote about the VPC for beta 3, it didn't make up to MSDN like it was supposed to. Well, a beta 3 VPC is available now, and a beta 3 refresh VPC will be available as soon as it makes its way through the infrastructure (yeah, I know, trust
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Saturday, November 19, 2005 10:09 AM

Hold the shift key and double click

I wrote this back in August , but these shortcuts weren't availabe in the July CTP. Now that beta 3 is out, you may want to give them a try. I've learned two shortcuts recently that I didn't know existed in TFS source control integration in VS. These
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Friday, November 18, 2005 10:03 PM

1,000,000 files in the dogfood system

Jeff Beehler just checked in another 100,000 files, pushing us over 1,000,000 files. We now have 1,042,659 files in the dogfood system. Brian Harry sent out a dogfood statistics update in email today, prior to Jeff's check-in. Watch for the latest stats
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Wednesday, November 16, 2005 10:36 PM

Go to Changeset coming for RTM

You still won't be able to drag and drop in Source Control Explorer (some changes are just too large at this point), but you will be able to go to a changeset (without going through the back door using Get Specific Version solely for changeset look up).
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Wednesday, November 16, 2005 12:27 PM

How to work around the diff viewer problem in Team Explorer Beta 3

If you install only the Team Explorer (and not VSTS), there is a known issue (7.3) where the diff viewer won't work. It also affects the built-in merge tool, but I think that's less painful for users who just need Team Explorer. The tool is diffmerge.exe,
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Wednesday, November 16, 2005 10:02 AM

Power Toy: tfpt.exe

[UPDATE 8/9/2007] I fixed the broken link to the power tools page. [UPDATE 9/8/2006] TFPT is now available in its own small download: http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=5422499 ! You no longer need to download the VS SDK. You can find more information about
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Wednesday, November 16, 2005 9:58 AM

How to upgrade from TFS Beta 3 to RTM

Allen Clark has posted the document on upgrading beta 3 to RTM so you'll know what to expect. Preparing to upgrade to RTM If you’re using Beta 3 Refresh, you may be wondering what you can do now to make the server upgrade to RTM as painless as possible.
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Tuesday, November 15, 2005 9:18 AM

Brian Harry on when to ship TFS

About half way through a thread on unlocking files locked by another user, Brian wrote a long response in the Team Foundation Forum about deciding what changes to make at this point and knowing when to ship . It's a good read. I expect that Brian will
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Tuesday, November 01, 2005 7:45 PM

Validating XML characters in SOAP messages

I've written about using the SoapHttpClientProtocol subclasses generated by wsdl.exe several times over the last year, including handling authentication , HTTP response codes , and setting timeouts properly . Today I needed to change the code in TFS to
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