Buck Hodges

Renaming folders that are explicitly mapped

February 17, 2006 Feb 17, 2006 02/17/06

Buck Hodges

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 ...

How to upgrade to Team Foundation RC

February 7, 2006 Feb 7, 2006 02/7/06

Buck Hodges

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...

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 ...

Beta TFS MSSCCI plugin now available for VB6, VC6 (not yet VS 2002/2003)

December 30, 2005 Dec 30, 2005 12/30/05

Buck Hodges

Brian Harry announced the availability of the beta TFS MSSCCI plugin for VB6, VC6 (not yet VS 2002/2003).You can download it at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=32202966-EF04-442F-8C5C-88BDF15F551C&displaylang=en.Buck...

How to improve command line performance

December 12, 2005 Dec 12, 2005 12/12/05

Buck Hodges

If you are using the tf.exe command line in scripts to convert from another version control system or to run other tasks that involve a lot of calls, there are several factors that have a large impact on the performance.  Other than the command files, all of the following applies to Visual Studio as well, but VS has the ...