Buck Hodges

Baseless merges now record history

February 6, 2006 Feb 6, 2006 02/6/06

Buck Hodges

Back in June, I wrote a post on using baseless merges to establish a merge relationship between two items where neither was branched from the other.  A week after I posted it, I had to go back and change it to say that baseless wouldn't record merge history for v1, and thus you would only be able to merge items where one was a branch of ...

How to add the Team Foundation assemblies to the .NET tab in the VS Add Reference dialog

January 12, 2006 Jan 12, 2006 01/12/06

Buck Hodges

To write an app using the Team Foundation API, you're going to need to reference assemblies that are in the GAC.  It's not possible to add a reference to a .NET assembly in the GAC in VS when you need to add a reference to an assembly.The GAC'ed Team Foundation assemblies are also copied to the PrivateAssemblies folder under the VS ...

Migrating CVS and Subversion repositories to Team Foundation Server

January 11, 2006 Jan 11, 2006 01/11/06

Buck Hodges

A number of users have asked about converting existing CVS and Subversion repositories to Team Foundation Server.  While we have no plans to produce such, we had hoped third parties would.  Today someone from Component Software posted an announcement of such a converter.Here's the description from their web page. CS-Converter is a ...

Locks based on file types (extensions) and shelving

January 10, 2006 Jan 10, 2006 01/10/06

Buck Hodges

Recently, someone asked about locks, shelving, and buddy builds (i.e., shelving your changes and unshelving and building them in another workspace to make sure everything builds cleanly). I am trying to add a number of files into our source control.  The list of files I want to add contains a few each of .ico and .bmp, and one .xls ...

Disabling or changing output colors used by the command line (tf.exe)

January 6, 2006 Jan 6, 2006 01/6/06

Buck Hodges

In the forum, a user asked how to turn off the colors used in the output of the version control command line for Team Foundation (tf.exe).  I thought I'd repost it here.Question When tf.exe (beta 3 refresh version) displays an error message the text is colored in yellow on black. My command prompt windows usually have black text on white ...