Using Source Code Control in Team Foundation

September 29, 2005 Sep 29, 2005 09/29/05

Buck Hodges

Chris Menegay's article on MSDN, Using Source Code Control in Team Foundation, provides a good overview of some of the major features. As a part of Visual Studio 2005 Team System and the new Team Foundation Server, Microsoft is providing a true enterprise-class source code control system. Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) is provided as ...

VSS converter for TFS beta 3

September 27, 2005 Sep 27, 2005 09/27/05

Buck Hodges

Akash Maheshwari, PM for the source control converters for TFS, has posted a set of articles on using the VSS converter with TFS beta 3.  You'll want to check that out if you are converting from VSS, because that's the most up-to-date source of information...

Why are there two Source Control entries on the File menu?

September 26, 2005 Sep 26, 2005 09/26/05

Buck Hodges

If you add the Code Analysis check-in policy to your Team Project, you'll see two entries for Source Control on the File menu in VS, as shown below. All of the standard menu items for TFS source control are under the second Source Control entry.  The issue is cosmetic and is related to a change we made in the TFS source control ...

The 10,000th Changeset

September 26, 2005 Sep 26, 2005 09/26/05

Buck Hodges

Back on July 13, I wrote about the dates of changeset "milestones" in our dogfood system.  Today we hit changeset 10,000.  The time between 9000 and 10000 was longer than usual because of check-in restrictions in place leading up to beta 3 (bug fixes had to be individually reviewed and approved in ask mode).Here's the full list...

Active Directory is no longer required with Team Foundation Beta 3

September 22, 2005 Sep 22, 2005 09/22/05

Buck Hodges

There have been a lot of requests from folks wanting to use TFS without Active Directory.  Since several questions and answers in comments on Jeff Beehler's blog dealt with this, I thought it's worth mentioning in a post that TFS beta 3 supports workgroup installations, and Active Directory is not required in that configuration.[...

Doug Neumann on Channel 9

September 12, 2005 Sep 12, 2005 09/12/05

Buck Hodges

Doug Neumann, one of our esteemed Program Managers, is in a short video on Channel 9 talking about our office, version control, the proxy, etc.  He and Mario, our other version control PM, are at PDC this week.Doug Neumann - Source Code control guy on VSTS team...