TFS Source Control administration web service

Buck HodgesJune 29, 2005Jun 29, 200506/29/05

Have you ever wondered how many files are in your server?  Or workspaces?  Have you wanted to stop a request that was being processed?  Using the administration web service and matching web page for TFS Source Control, you can do exactly that.For a beta 2 server, bring up http://localhost:8080/scc/application/admin.asmx&nbs

Please send error reports when prompted

Buck HodgesJune 29, 2005Jun 29, 200506/29/05

A couple of months ago, Jeff Lucovsky wrote about filing watson reports for Team Foundation.  When you log in as an administrator on the application tier for TFS, you may be greeted with a dialog asking if you would like to report errors to Microsoft.  Likewise, if Visual Studio crashes, you may be asked to report the error to M

Jeff Beehler’s blogging

Buck HodgesJune 28, 2005Jun 28, 200506/28/05

Tonight I stumbled across Jeff Beehler's new blog.  So far he's written about our effort to upgrade our dogfood system to new code (we've been using a system based on the beta 2 release), which we'll release as a mid-July CTP.

Using baseless merge with converted VSS shared folders

Buck HodgesJune 18, 2005Jun 18, 200506/18/05

In this forum thread, http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=18817, a question was asked about using baseless merge with converted VSS shared folders.[UPDATE Aug. 22, 2006]  The GUI will not show the relatives of baseless merges, only explicit branch relationships.[UPDATE Feb. 6, 2006]  I'm happy to say that baseless m

Don’t use the June CTP of SQL 2005 with Team Foundation

Buck HodgesJune 16, 2005Jun 16, 200506/16/05

It's a question that's come up a lot lately.  The June CTP of SQL 2005 will not work as the SQL backend for the current public releases of Team Foundation.  There have been changes in SQL 2005 that require changes in TFS for it to work.

Skip the June CTP for Team Foundation

Buck HodgesJune 16, 2005Jun 16, 200506/16/05

The June CTP of VS 2005 includes Team Foundation Server.  However, this is not the June CTP discussed in the Team Foundation MSDN forums and elsewhere.  That CTP is now scheduled for July (it was the last week of June, so it didn't change much).  So, anywhere you've see a reference to the June CTP for TFS in the forums

How to use the TF version control command line from VS 2003 and other environments

Buck HodgesJune 3, 2005Jun 3, 200506/3/05

We've had a lot of customer feedback on wanting integration in VS 2003, VB6, etc.  The problem with the VS 2003 environment is that there can only be a single version of the CLR loaded into a process.  VS 2003 loads 1.1.  The TF source control integration requires that the 2.0 CLR be used.  Thus, our VS integration code won