If you haven't seen CodePlex, you'll want to check it out. It's Microsoft's shared community development web site, and it uses TFS to host development projects. Brad Wilson of the CodePlex team provides some nice answers to about 10 questions of general interest on TFS and CodePlex. Answering Questions About CodePlex and TFS Phil Haack ...
Lots of folks have asked for sharing in TFS version control. While we don't support it and don't encourage it as a best practice, Rob Caron mentioned that Component Software has produced an application called TFSLinks that adds sharing functionality to TFS. For those of you who can't live without VSS-style sharing, you might want to giv...
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.
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). How...
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 getting...
Back in 2003, Korby Parnell listed a couple of tools to switch source control providers. The interesting one was Sourcecode Control Switcher by Soenke Schau. It adds it self into the task tray to make switching providers really simple. I didn't try it, but it looks like it may be a good way to goAnother possibility is to create Wi...
Aaron Stebner has a nice post showing the steps need to create uattended installations of Team Explorer (aka TFC, Team Foundation Client). How to perform a silent install of Visual Studio 2005 Team Explorer I have previously posted instructions for performing a silent installation for Visual Studio 2005 and the Visual Studio 2005 Express Editi...
On internal mailing list, the following questions came up regarding the auto-generated check-in mails from TFS. Jeff Lucovsky replied with the following information, which I've edited slightly. In an earlier email, a similar question regarding work item tracking alerts came up. Does anyone know of a way to define rules to trigger automated ema...
This has come up twice now, so it seems to be worth posting in the hopes that folks will find it when searching for the error message.Here's the scenario. Ben Ryan, a developer on version control, describes the problem and the workaround as follows. The root cause of the problem is that the CMS Service Pack that adds support for Visual Studi...
[UPDATE April 8] The download page works now, and the link is now up to date.Brian Harry posted an announcement today that there is a new release of the MSSCCI provider for non-VS2005 environments. This one actually has signed binaries. ;-)Here's the summary from the download page. Overview The Visual Studio Team Foundation Server MSSCC...
