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[UPDATE 8/8/11]  The TFS 2010 power tools now provide rollback in the UI as described here. Tonight Justin and I spoke to the Minnesota Visual Studio User Group.  It was completely unscripted, and we had a great time answering questions and telling a few stories (can you name the original code names for version control, work item trackin...

[Update 3/16/11]  There is a KB article with TFS 2010 SP1 installation troubleshooting should you hit problems: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2516423. Problem A customer ran into this issue, and I want to post it to help anyone else who hits it.  The symptom is that you install Service Pack 1 for Team Foundation Server 2010, and it fa...

If you are responsible for work with your team’s build system, you will definitely want to buy a copy of Inside the Microsoft Build Engine: Using MSBuild and Team Foundation Build (Second Edition).  Both of the authors now work for Microsoft.  William Bartholomew is part of the central engineering team and has been building the infrastruc...

Vishal Joshi, lead program manager for web platform tools, has a great blog covering using various project types with Team Foundation Build.  Here’s a selection of his posts on using team build, which I highly recommend if you are working with web projects. Technorati Tags: team foundation,build,web projects,team build

Starting with TFS 2010 SP1, there are two improvements to how baseless merges work: base file version and handling deleted files. First is that if you specify a starting range for a baseless merge, we will now use that changeset as the base in the three-way content merge. That results in a vastly improved experience in merging file content for a b...

Question: Can a TFS 2010 Team Project Collection (TPC) on SQL Server 2008 Enterprise be down converted to SQL Server Standard 2008 edition? Answer: This is covered in the 2010 Upgrade guide post. The script is: exec prc_EnablePrefixCompression @online = 0, @disable = 1 (answer provided by Ed Holloway)

[UPDATE 3/24/12]  You can find a real code metrics activity here as part of the Community TFS Build Extensions. Cameron Skinner has announced a new command line tool for generating code metrics.  We’ve long gotten requests to be able to generate code metrics from the build.  Prior to this tool, code metrics c...

The folks who produce our documentation continue to experiment and find ways to improve our documentation.  The most recent change involves consolidating docs.  I’d encourage you to take a look and give them feedback. Significant Changes Made to Streamline the Content for Work Item Type Schema Reference A move has been afoot to...