Buck Hodges

Hold the shift key and double click

August 23, 2005 Aug 23, 2005 08/23/05

Buck Hodges

I've learned two shortcuts recently that I didn't know existed in TFS source control integration in VS.  These may or may not work based on the build you are using. Double clicking the Source Control node in the Team Explorer will bring up the Source Control Explorer window.  What I learned recently is that holding the shift key and...

Look for TFS Beta 3 in September, RTM in Q1 ’06

August 22, 2005 Aug 22, 2005 08/22/05

Buck Hodges

Beta 3 for Team Foundation will be released in September along with Visual Studio 2005 Release Candidate 1.  One of the most significant points with beta 3 is that it will have a go-live license that includes data migration to RTM.  The details are in Soma's blog post for today: Visual Studio 2005 update.Here's a copy of the part ...

Why doesn’t Team Foundation get the latest version of a file on checkout?

August 20, 2005 Aug 20, 2005 08/20/05

Buck Hodges

I've seen this question come up a few times.  Doug Neumann, our PM, wrote a nice explanation in the Team Foundation forum (http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=70231). It turns out that this is by design, so let me explain the reasoning behind it.  When you perform a get operation to populate your workspace with a ...

Dogfood statistics update

August 20, 2005 Aug 20, 2005 08/20/05

Buck Hodges

John Lawrence posted the latest set of dogfood system statistics.  The deltas are from May I think, since it says checkins are up 4,500.  The June/early-July statistics are here.  One thing to note is that we now have more than 600,000 files and folders in the system.  Hopefully, we'll hit 1 million in the not too distant ...