Buck Hodges

All about the caching proxy for version control

March 9, 2006 Mar 9, 2006 03/9/06

Buck Hodges

Rob Caron posted the following the other day, and I've copied it below.  If you want to learn more about how we cache versions of files to speed up downloads, including get, view, diff, and more, you'll want to take a look at this. Team Foundation Server Proxy Screencasts We just posted a series of six screencasts by Swamy Subramanian, a ...

Configuring different diff/merge tools for Team Foundation Version Control

March 9, 2006 Mar 9, 2006 03/9/06

Buck Hodges

Many of you probably know that you can specify your own diff/merge tool.  One thing that's not mentioned on that documentation page is that you can specify * for the Extension field to change the default diff or merge tool.James Manning recently put together a nice post on configuring different diff and merge tools, making it easier to ...

How to change the computer name and update the owner name for a workspace

March 3, 2006 Mar 3, 2006 03/3/06

Buck Hodges

As part of the information about a workspace, the version control server records the name of the computer that hosts a workspace and the user that owns the workspace.  If you need to change your computer name or your user name, how do you tell the server to update the workspace information?The command line, tf.exe, provides two options, /...

How to create shadow folders in TFS

March 2, 2006 Mar 2, 2006 03/2/06

Buck Hodges

One of the features from VSS that TFS does not support "out of the box" is shadow folders.  Last year, one of our interns, Philip, wrote short guide to setting up shadow folder for TFS by using Scheduled Tasks in Windows (he also wrote tfpt.exe). I've attached the MS Word document to this post.  You can read the introduction below.&...