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Friday, February 24, 2006 8:53 AM

Working around not being able to delete a work item type

The following question came up in the forum: "How do I delete the custom work item type that I created?" Tony Edwards posted the following. One other thing that comes to my mind is to have a second server to use for experimentation before applying changes
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Friday, February 24, 2006 8:25 AM

Listing the process templates on a TFS server

In response to a forum question about how to list the process templates on the server, Tony Edwards, a developer on Work Item Tracking, posted the following code snippet showing how to do it. The TeamFoundationServer object provides a number of services,
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Wednesday, February 22, 2006 10:28 AM

Want to influence the next version of TFS? Now is the time!

Brian Harry has a new post requesting your input for the next version of TFS. The team has just started planning for TFS, so now is the best time to let him know what you would like to have in the next version. Team Foundation Server and the Future With
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Wednesday, February 22, 2006 8:03 AM

Determining the amount of space required to store files and work items

Recently someone asked how to estimate the space required for the databases on a Team Foundation Server. To do that, we can take a look at our own dogfood server to see where the space goes. With that information and some knowledge of how the system works,
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Attachment(s): CapacityPlanning.xls
Tuesday, February 21, 2006 5:39 PM

Robert Horvick's blog posts on branch and merge history

Robert Horvick , now a dev on the version control team, has been writing a series of posts on using the branch and merge API methods. If you want to explore that area, I recommend checking out his posts. Following merge history using the TFS command line
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Tuesday, February 21, 2006 2:04 PM

TFS MSSCCI Provider Beta 2 is available -- disable strong name validation

As has been announced in several different blogs, the second beta of the MSSCCI provider is available, providing VS integration for users with VS 2003 and earlier (you cannot use it with VS 2005, because we provide the full experience with Team Explorer
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Monday, February 20, 2006 6:15 PM

Updating TFS event listeners to work with RC and RTM releases

You may have read before about the fact that the TFS protocol version number changed between beta 3 and RC. As a result, you have to upgrade pre-RC clients when you upgrade the server to RC or RTM (the version number for RTM should be the same as RC).
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Monday, February 20, 2006 11:01 AM

Branch and merge and other useful posts

Rob Caron pointed out a post over at Vertigo Software regarding the tf.exe command line (I like the command line too, but I'm biased :-). There's also a nice post on branching and merging , along with quite a few other useful posts . Check it out.
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Monday, February 20, 2006 10:23 AM

List of tools and add-ins for TFS

Richard Hundhasen mentioned that he's trying to keep a list of tools and add-ins for TFS at http://teamsystemexperts.com/widgets.aspx .
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Saturday, February 18, 2006 9:48 AM

Permission tool beta: One tool to set permissions for TFS, SharePoint, and Reporting

There have been quite a few requests for a single place to set permissions in TFS, SharePoint, and SQL Reporting Services. The Developer Aftermarket Community Solutions team in Developer Division at Microsoft just released the first beta of an administration
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Friday, February 17, 2006 2:40 PM

Renaming folders that are explicitly mapped

Internally, someone wanted to rename a folder and received an error instead of having the folder moved. When trying to rename $/ProjectA/Folder1 to $/ProjectB/Folder1, the user received the error message, "TF14097: Cannot rename $ProjectA/Folder1 when
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Wednesday, February 08, 2006 10:22 PM

TFS Version Control post summary

Now that the RC is out, I thought I'd post a summary with links to version control posts from the last several months that I think are relevant. Baseless merges now record history How to add the Team Foundation assemblies to the .NET tab in the VS Add
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Tuesday, February 07, 2006 9:16 AM

Using Team Foundation in Eclipse with the TeamPrise plug-in

I'm still catching up on what's been going on, and I found this on Grace Francisco's blog . I've highlighted the end of the summary where it mentions using TeamPrise on Linux. MSDN Webcast: Accessing Visual Studio 2005 Team System Using the Teamprise
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Tuesday, February 07, 2006 8:52 AM

How to upgrade to Team Foundation RC

The Team Foundation RC should be available for download sometime today, and Jeff Beehler provided a high-level description of what's changed . His first point is the most significant. There are many, many bug fixes in the RC compared to beta 3. For version
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Monday, February 06, 2006 2:30 PM

VSTS Load Test team bloggers: Ed Glas, Bill Barnett, Josh Christie

One of the many great parts of Visual Studio Team System is Load Testing . As one of the three original projects here in the Durham, North Carolina office, it was known as Ocracoke originally (Version Control was Hatteras, and Work Item Tracking was Currituck
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Monday, February 06, 2006 1:46 PM

Baseless merges now record history

Back in June, I wrote a post on using baseless merges to establish a merge relationship between two items where neither was branched from the other. A week after I posted it, I had to go back and change it to say that baseless wouldn't record merge history
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