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New Forum on MSDN

For a long time, we have had no home for questions related to migration offerings such as the VSS Converter, as well as general questions about our tools, partners, and service offerings.  We’ve recently added a new forum on MSDN to serve as the

TFS Integration Platform Alpha Released on CodePlex

Today, we released the Alpha version of the TFS Integration Platform on CodePlex.  For all of the details, including the docs and source code, check out the project page: http://tfsintegration.codeplex.com If you check out the project page, you’ll

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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Keyword Expansion Check-in Policy on CodePlex

One feature we often hear requests for in TFS version control is the ability to support keyword expansion in comment headers.  Many users of VSS and CVS are accustomed to using these comments as the way to track the revision history of a file. 
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New Migration and Integration Solutions Page on MSDN

Today we launched a new page on MSDN that will serve as the central hub for all things related to conversion to and integration with TFS.  This new Migration and Integration Solutions page consolidates all of the offerings in this space, including
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Bi-directional SVN to TFS Tool Available

One of our partners, Persistent Systems, just released a tool to migrate data from Subversion to TFS.  After migration, this tool also provides the ability to synchronize changes back to the SVN repository, allowing teams with heterogeneous ALM tooling
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Migration Tools Community

Something that I’m currently working on is trying to better understand the interest our partners and community members have in the migration/sync space.  There are already some people out there that have built tools on our existing Migration Toolkit

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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CSS Blog Post on Partial Merges

Ladislau Szomoru, a CSS Engineer for TFS, just posted a great blog post about partial merges on the CSS team’s blog .  Partial merges are fairly undocumented in most of the TFS documentation, and this blog post serves as a good supplement for anyone
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How To: Unlock/Undo a File that is Locked/Checked out

As the number of TFS users grows inside MS, rarely does a day go by where I don’t get forwarded a question where someone is asking how to do something in Version Control.  In the past, I’d simply respond to the person that asked the question, and
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