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Tuesday, November 10, 2009 3:56 PM

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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Thursday, October 29, 2009 9:43 AM

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
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Monday, October 19, 2009 5:56 PM

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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Monday, August 10, 2009 10:16 AM

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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Monday, June 15, 2009 11:24 AM

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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Friday, June 12, 2009 12:20 PM

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
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Thursday, June 11, 2009 2:54 PM

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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Monday, June 08, 2009 7:46 PM

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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Monday, June 01, 2009 2:30 PM

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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Thursday, May 28, 2009 6:45 PM

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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Monday, May 04, 2009 3:48 PM

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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Thursday, April 23, 2009 6:18 PM

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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Monday, April 20, 2009 2:37 PM

Configure Diff to Show Whitespace

Back in TFS 2005, if you used the Compare command to compare the contents of two source files, differences in whitespace were ignored by default.  In the case where two files differed only in whitespace, we didn’t even display the diff tool, but
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Tuesday, March 31, 2009 3:56 PM

Mainframe Express Integration with TFS MSSCCI Provider

For teams using IDEs other than Visual Studio, the TFS MSSCCI Provider is the standard integration point for TFS version control.  Recently, we did some work to ensure that the Mainframe Express IDE, offered by Micro Focus, would be compatible with
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009 5:42 AM

Determining the Right Blog Scope

Shortly after joining MS, I decided that I should create a blog to share information with the world that was related to what I was working on. Initially, this was limited to the migration tools that we were building for TFS 2005, hence the TFS Migration
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