May 2006

Quick guide to backing up your TFS databases

May 30, 2006 May 30, 2006 05/30/06

Buck Hodges

Jeff Atwood at Verigo Software has posted a nice visual guide to backing up your TFS data (based on the official MSDN TFS backup documentation).A Visual Guide to Backing Up a Team Foundation Server databaseHe promises to provide a guide to restoring the data as well...

Using TFS with Web Application Projects

May 22, 2006 May 22, 2006 05/22/06

Buck Hodges

There's a helpful FAQ posted in the ASP.NET forums regarding using Team Foundation Server with the newly released Web Application Projects for Visual Studio.Issue 6 - Using TFS Team Build Issue 6 - Using TFS Team BuildThe May 2006 release of Web Application Projects supports building with Team Build on a Team Foundation Server (TFS...

Editing documents anywhere using Outlook free documents

May 1, 2006 May 1, 2006 05/1/06

Buck Hodges

About a month ago, I wrote about using Outlook with RPC over HTTP. I recently stumbled across an old blog post by Jeremy Kelly called Using your Mailbox to Store Work-in-Progress documents. He mentions a feature called "free docs." Combining this with Outlook over HTTP is really very useful. Here's how it works...

Compare the content changes in a shelveset with any checked-in version

May 1, 2006 May 1, 2006 05/1/06

Buck Hodges

I wrote this snippet recently to compare the edited files in a shelveset with an arbitrary checked-in version of the same files. It's another example of how to use the API to show differences. See How to compare (diff) trees at different versions using the API for a different example of comparing checked-in files.If you are just ...

Buck Hodges

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