Buck Hodges
Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS and Team Foundation Server)
Latest posts
TFS MSSCCI Provider Beta 2 is available — disable strong name validation
As has been announced in several different blogs, the second beta of the MSSCCI provider is available, providing VS integration for users with VS 2003 and earlier (you cannot use it with VS 2005, because we provide the full experience with Team Explorer in VS 2005). For it to work, you will need to disable strong name validation for the beta 2 assemblies. They are not strongly named (signed) binaries. If you do not disable strong name validation, you will receive two error messages. TFMscciSvr.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience. There was a failure wh...
Updating TFS event listeners to work with RC and RTM releases
You may have read before about the fact that the TFS protocol version number changed between beta 3 and RC. As a result, you have to upgrade pre-RC clients when you upgrade the server to RC or RTM (the version number for RTM should be the same as RC).The other thing you'll need to update is any web services that you have subscribed to TFS event notifications. For example, I updated the Continuous Integration example code from Doug's TechEd presentation.In your code, you'll need to change the "02" to "03" in the SoapDocumentMethod attributes.Old: [SoapDocumentMethod("http://schemas.mi...
Branch and merge and other useful posts
Rob Caron pointed out a post over at Vertigo Software regarding the tf.exe command line (I like the command line too, but I'm biased :-). There's also a nice post on branching and merging, along with quite a few other useful posts. Check it out.
List of tools and add-ins for TFS
Richard Hundhasen mentioned that he's trying to keep a list of tools and add-ins for TFS at http://teamsystemexperts.com/widgets.aspx.
Permission tool beta: One tool to set permissions for TFS, SharePoint, and Reporting
There have been quite a few requests for a single place to set permissions in TFS, SharePoint, and SQL Reporting Services. The Developer Aftermarket Community Solutions team in Developer Division at Microsoft just released the first beta of an administration tool for this purpose. Kannan, the lead developer on the tool, posted the announcement(screenshot).Here is the description from the GotDotNet project. The TFS Administration Tool allows a TFS administrator to quickly add users to all three platforms utilized by TFS: TFS, Sharepoint, and SQL RS, all through one common inter...
Renaming folders that are explicitly mapped
Internally, someone wanted to rename a folder and received an error instead of having the folder moved. When trying to rename $/ProjectA/Folder1 to $/ProjectB/Folder1, the user received the error message, "TF14097: Cannot rename $ProjectA/Folder1 when it has a working folder mapping assigned to it."If you run into that, here's what it means. The system does not allow you to rename an item that is explicitly mapped. If you bring up your workspace mappings (File -> Source Control -> Workspaces, select your workspace, and click Edit), you will see that $/ProjectA/Folder1 is listed in the mappings.&...
TFS Version Control post summary
Now that the RC is out, I thought I'd post a summary with links to version control posts from the last several months that I think are relevant. Clark Sell posted a VSTS JumpStart with useful links as well.Here are some posts from James Manning you may find useful. For those of you out there who want to add your own "power toy" to enhance the TFS version control experience in VS, check out How to Write a Team Foundation Version Control Add-in for Visual Studio by Ed Hintz, which also includes adding TFS assemblies to VS. You could add features like baseless merges, merge history, listing...
Using Team Foundation in Eclipse with the TeamPrise plug-in
I'm still catching up on what's been going on, and I found this on Grace Francisco's blog. I've highlighted the end of the summary where it mentions using TeamPrise on Linux. MSDN Webcast: Accessing Visual Studio 2005 Team System Using the Teamprise Plug-In for Eclipse (Level 200) Find out how you can use the Teamprise Plug-in for Eclipse to access the source control features of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System from within the Eclipse integrated development environment (IDE). In this webcast, we show you how to add new Eclipse projects to a Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation server, import...
How to upgrade to Team Foundation RC
The Team Foundation RC should be available for download sometime today, and Jeff Beehler provided a high-level description of what's changed. His first point is the most significant. There are many, many bug fixes in the RC compared to beta 3. For version control, merge has improved the most. It's quite a bit faster and more robust.Rob Caron has posted information on upgrading from beta3 refresh to the RC, including the Team Foundation RC Installation Guide. Those with beta 3 installed will need to upgrade their servers to beta 3 refresh to then upgrade to the RC. Clients just ...