Back in the summer I wrote several posts on branching and merging in Team Foundation Source Control. They are also relevant for the Dec. CTP if you are interested in this very important part of SCM.
Someone in the newsgroup asked how to delete a team project. I asked James and he mentioned DeleteTeamProject.exe. From a Visual Studio command prompt, you can use the following command line app to delete a project. To get the command prompt, go to Start -> All Programs -> Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Beta -> Vis...
Back in June I posted information from the newgroup regarding VSTS Pricing.Here's an update from Ajay Sudan's newsgroup post (Jan. 24, 2005).MSDN Universal customers may migrate to their choice of Visual Studio Team Architect Edition, Visual Studio Team Developer Edition, or Visual Studio Team Test Edition at no additional cost for the du...
This blog post is obsolete. Please see https://devblogs.microsoft.com/buckh/team-foundation-version-control-client-api-example-for-tfs-2010-and-newer/ Here's a really simple example that uses the source control API () in the Dec. CTP. It shows how to create a workspace, pend changes, check in those changes, and hook up some important event listen...
Shelving is a really useful feature that was included for the first time with the Dec. CTP. Shelving allows you to save your changes to a shelveset on the server. The shelveset consists of the same kind of information that a checkin does, except that you aren't checking in. You don't create a new changeset. Rather, you creat...
If you try, as one person in the Team Foundation newsgroup did, to checkin large files (>200 MB or so), you will reach a point where it fails with a message like "there is not enough storage to complete this command." That is due to the fact that the Dec. CTP uses the MSPatch library to compress files for upload. The working set...
Problem with CleanBuildPolicy in the December CTPWhen you try to configure a new checkin policy, you will get an error regarding the CleanBuildPolicy. That policy has a problem due to it or one of its dependencies not being properly signed. You can work around the problem by removing it from the registry by deleting the following key.&n...
In addition to Paul Murphy's post mentioned earlier, Kevin Kelly included a link to the following TechNet article: Installing Windows Server 2003 as a Domain Controller.
