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New Branch and Merge Permissions

In a previous blog post about the new First Class Branches that we have added in TFS 2010, I mentioned the addition of two new permissions related to branching and merging.  In this post, I want to go into a bit more detail about these permissions,
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Using VSS Converter in TFS 2010 Beta 2

TFS 2010 Beta 2 has been out for a few days now, and I’ve heard of quite a few users hitting errors when trying to migrate their VSS databases to TFS using VSS Converter.  If you’ve hit the error message below, keep reading for a workaround that

Forward Compatibility Release for Team Explorer 2008

Today, as you have probably heard by now, was the public release of TFS 2010 Beta 2 .  We’ve got a ton of improvements in this release, including some awesome styling changes for the branch visualization features that I’ve blogged about previously. 
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Branch Hierarchy Visualization

One of the new branch visualizations we’ve added allows users to see the hierarchical relationship between branches.  That is, the visualization shows the logical relationships between a family of related branches.  Typically, branches only
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First Class Branches

Introducing the concept of “first class branches” is a significant part of the 2010 release for version control.  Not only does it help to distinguish between folders and branches, but it enables our branch visualizations, and provides a platform
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What’s new in Version Control in TFS 2010?

Something I’ve been waiting to do is to blog about all of the great features we have added to version control in TFS 2010.  Now that the Beta 1 bits have been published, I’m planning a series of blog posts to cover each feature we’ve added to the
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Changing to Slot Mode in TFS 2010 Version Control

In TFS 2010, one of the more significant changes that we made to our version control platform was how we identify items.  Previously, version control operated in what we called “item mode” and in TFS 2010 it operates in “slot mode”.  To better
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