June 2009 - Posts

• Visual Basic problems with TFS, when referencing files outside of the project

  I was asked recently to investigate problem when using VB6 and TFS Msscci Provider. We found out a limitation, that is not really surprising, but is still worth documenting. The code base looks like this: Source SharedCode Class1.cls Project 1 Project1.vpb Read More... Posted Tuesday, June 16, 2009 5:14 PM by michalma | 0 Comments Filed under: TFS Msscci Provider

• "Get latest on checkout" in a mixed environment

  Today I had to test behavior of our less commonly used feature, get latest on checkout, in a mixed VSTS 2008 + TFS 2008 environment. Hopefully this blog post will save the time next person who wonders if this should work (It took me 3 hours to update Read More... Posted Tuesday, June 16, 2009 4:56 PM by michalma | 0 Comments Filed under: Team Foundation Server

• Version Control API changes in TFS 2010 - part II

  Yesterday I was talking about changes we did to itemId and pendingChangeId in TFS 2010. Today I want to list other changes, related to various part of VC api: You should be careful when using DiffItemVersionedFile class, especially if you use constructor Read More... Posted Tuesday, June 16, 2009 4:46 PM by michalma | 1 Comments Filed under: Team Foundation Server, Rosario

• Version Control API changes in TFS 2010 - part I

  As Matt writes in his post , the way version control behaves in TFS 2010 has changed in a few significant ways. Our team was responsible for making the client code updates in response to those server changes and I tried to write down lessons we have learned. Read More... Posted Monday, June 15, 2009 7:44 PM by michalma | 1 Comments Filed under: Team Foundation Server, Rosario