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I'm very pleased to announce that the wait is over. Today the first official update for SourceSafe 2005 went live on the web . Download away -- it's only 3.5MB. To quickly bring new readers up to date: this update is a rollup of 64 VSS bug fixes . We
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My post about VS 2008 and the SourceSafe CTP generated lots of questions . I'll do my best to answer all of them. Q: Why wasn't this information in the VS2008 README? A: It should have been. It was definitely in the Orcas Beta1 and Beta2 READMEs. I haven't
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Just a quick note to let you know that I've updated the list again. To recap: you can get fixes #1-57 today via the CTP build. English only, I'm afraid. The final GDR ships later this year in all supported languages (English, Japanese, French, Italian,
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You've probably all seen Soma's announcement that the 2008 suite of products officially shipped this morning. Good luck downloading -- our servers are pegged :) If you plan to use VS 2008 with SourceSafe, make sure to pick up the Update CTP too. Without
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All tf.exe commands return one of these: public enum ExitCode { Unknown = -1, Success = 0, PartialSuccess = 1, UnrecognizedCommand = 2, Failure = 100, } .csharpcode, .csharpcode pre { font-size: small; color: black; font-family: consolas, "Courier New",
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When you run Get on a folder (aka project) in VSS Explorer, you're presented with these options: (if you don't get this dialog, try holding Shift) Most of the options are obvious, but not "build tree" -- at least not to me. The online help explains it
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Let's recap Items one more time. Items are unique . They have an ID that no other item does. Items are versioned . Like all version control systems, TFVC is about making it easy to store successive versions of the same item and retrieve old ones when
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Command Line usage In Source Control Explorer, you're always operating on pending space. At the command line, it's less clear. Consider the following setup: you're working in a directory $/project that's mapped to c:\project and contains two files a.cs
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Last time we learned that the principle objects in the source control system are called Items, and a few of their basic properties. That was awhile ago so let's recap: Items are unique . They have an ID that no other item does. Items are versioned . Like
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One of the changes made between VSS 6.0 and 2005 was to replace ancient file dialogs with common dialogs from the Windows Shell wherever possible. Check out the 6.0 version of Set Working Folder : It just screams "Win 3.1", complete with floppy diskette
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When I updated Buck's TFS macros for Outlook 2007 , I neglected to demonstrate how they were installed. Enough has shifted around in '07 that the question has come up a few times. Let's burn some bandwidth. 1) go to Tools -> Macro -> VB Editor.
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I've been on vacation the last two weeks, and was silent for several weeks before that. Lots of things from that time stretch I want to share. Most notably, we wrapped up the promised "VSS GDR CTP". Brian Harry was kind enough to announce its RTW in my
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I'm a big fan of the work Brian Harry has done to make our processes more transparent. Nevertheless, to badly misquote one of my other bosses, "transparency for the sake of transparency is soo 2006." I chuckled again writing this, because there's a grain
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When I upgraded to OL2007, Buck's great little macros stopped working. Today, I finally got the guts to ask the Outlook guys what they broke improved. The answer was simple enough. I'll let the code do the talking: Sub LinkToWorkItem() Set oDoc = ActiveInspector.WordEditor
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We finally have a name. Last time I blogged about the future of SourceSafe , I had to constantly refer to "the next servicing release." No more. That next release will officially be a "GDR" -- and it's coming sooner than you think. Some brief history
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