Colin Beales - Blog : TFS

Avoiding MAX_PATH issues with TFS

colinbeales — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:57:00 GMT

I was discussing with a customer the other day around the posibility of hitting the maximum path limit in TFS.

Great to see just days after the conversation a sample from James Pickell showing a Check-In policy to avoid this.

Stop connecting to TFS automatically on Visual Studio 2005 startup

colinbeales — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 21:07:00 GMT

I'm always forgetting this one and people often ask me for it so I'm popping up here in the hope I'll find it easier next time.

It's an old problem where Visual Studio 2005 goes looking to connect automatically to TFS when you change between TFS servers or work disconnected for a while.

Simply add a registry key "AutoLoadServer" (type DWORD) to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\TeamFoundation, setting the value to be 0 (Do not connect automatically).

Changing TFS Emails to link to Web Access Work Items

colinbeales — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:03:00 GMT

Just came across this on Neno Loje's Blog which is sooooooo cool. How cool is it to have access to the web access stuff direct from notification emails...Awesome!!

http://msmvps.com/blogs/vstsblog/archive/2007/08/31/changing-tfs-email-notifications-to-link-to-team-system-web-access.aspx