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• 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

• Using tf.exe in PowerShell ISE or other custom environments

  Recently a few folks from our and other team tried working with TFS inside PowerShell ISE ( http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/scriptfanatic/archive/2008/12/30/windows-powershell-integrated-scripting-environment-ise.aspx ). What they discovered is that Read More... Posted Monday, January 19, 2009 12:35 PM by michalma | 0 Comments Filed under: Team Foundation Server, TFS2008

• Resolve improvements in Dev10 – Server and Target edits

  As you could notice in CTP1 or CTP2, new Resolve Dialog displays detailed information about selected conflict. This information is partially calculated on the background and can involve some time consuming operation. Right now they are: attempt to merge Read More... Posted Saturday, January 10, 2009 7:34 PM by michalma | 1 Comments Filed under: Rosario

• Resolve improvements in Dev10 – Automerge All part2

  TFS always creates conflict when rename is involved, even if it's only on server/source branch. We expanded Automerge All, so it can automatically resolve those conflicts. We exclude from this, conflicts on folders, as those are rare and user should review Read More... Posted Saturday, January 10, 2009 7:31 PM by michalma | 1 Comments Filed under: Rosario

• Resolve improvements in Dev10 – Automerge All

  We heard that some users are afraid of performing "Automerge All" operation. The thinking here is that TFS (or any) merge engine is not 100% bulletproof. If method foo was added at the beginning of the file in the source branch and at the end of the file Read More... Posted Monday, January 05, 2009 2:07 PM by michalma | 1 Comments Filed under: Rosario

• Resolve improvements in next version of TFS

  As Brian said long time ago in his blog ( http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2008/02/01/a-new-spec-on-conflict-resolution-is-available.aspx ), and Mario described in the spec ( http://download.microsoft.com/download/e/0/e/e0ed04ec-bf14-4dd6-b5ad-22094b128498/Resolve-Improvements.xps Read More... Posted Sunday, May 04, 2008 9:50 PM by michalma | 2 Comments Filed under: Rosario

• Msscci 2008 with MS Access 2007

  I have played a little with MS Access 2007, verifying that it's working with TFS Msscci 2008. In order to get SCC integration, you need to install Access Developer Extension - a add-in that allows Access to use any Msscci provider (and a few other goodies). Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 15, 2008 2:55 PM by michalma | 2 Comments Filed under: TFS2008, TFS Msscci Provider

• Msscci with RoboHelp

  Yet another tool that should be working with TFS Msscci Provider is RoboHelp. The reported problem is "Server Busy" error message display over Msscci dialog. The solution for this (until release of the new provider) is to create registry file (robofix.reg) Read More... Posted Thursday, April 03, 2008 5:16 PM by michalma | 0 Comments Filed under: Team Foundation Server, TFS Msscci Provider

• New features in next release of TF

  Brian published a few screen shots of tools that we are working on right now for the next major release of TFS (not SP1). The Branch Visualization (Scenario 2 and 3) are amazing but right now my personal favorite is improved history (Scenario 1) . While Read More... Posted Sunday, January 20, 2008 2:34 PM by michalma | 2 Comments Filed under: Rosario

• Early Rosario feedback

  I just read Brian's post (over month after the fact :() about Rosario specs - http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2007/11/30/vsts-codename-rosario-specifications-begin-to-arrive.aspx It's a great way to influence product that is being written right now Read More... Posted Saturday, January 05, 2008 8:10 PM by michalma | 1 Comments Filed under: Rosario

• Small Orcas Improvements - part 2

  "Check-in does not check-in". One of the most feared complains from the users. We all check-in files every day (or not, when gauntlet is in use ;)) and everything works fine.But customers are always right (vide Get Latest on Checkout)! So one theory explaining Read More... Posted Saturday, January 05, 2008 8:00 PM by michalma | 2 Comments Filed under: TFS2008

• TFS Msscci Provider 2.0

  Just before Holiday Season we released new version of TFS Msscci Provider - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=FAEB7636-644E-451A-90D4-7947217DA0E7&displaylang=en . Of course the biggest demand was to allow provider to work with Read More... Posted Saturday, January 05, 2008 7:31 PM by michalma | 2 Comments Filed under: TFS2008, TFS Msscci Provider