Buck Hodges

Active Directory is no longer required with Team Foundation Beta 3

September 22, 2005 Sep 22, 2005 09/22/05

Buck Hodges

There have been a lot of requests from folks wanting to use TFS without Active Directory.  Since several questions and answers in comments on Jeff Beehler's blog dealt with this, I thought it's worth mentioning in a post that TFS beta 3 supports workgroup installations, and Active Directory is not required in that configuration.[...

Doug Neumann on Channel 9

September 12, 2005 Sep 12, 2005 09/12/05

Buck Hodges

Doug Neumann, one of our esteemed Program Managers, is in a short video on Channel 9 talking about our office, version control, the proxy, etc.  He and Mario, our other version control PM, are at PDC this week.Doug Neumann - Source Code control guy on VSTS team...

How TFS Version Control determines a file’s encoding

September 10, 2005 Sep 10, 2005 09/10/05

Buck Hodges

TFS Version Control will automatically detect a file's encoding based upon the following. The only exception to the foregoing is PDF files.  Those are always detected as binary because they are so common and can be all text in the first 1 kilobyte with binary streams later in the file.  The detection is based on the signature, "%...

Hold the shift key and double click

August 23, 2005 Aug 23, 2005 08/23/05

Buck Hodges

I've learned two shortcuts recently that I didn't know existed in TFS source control integration in VS.  These may or may not work based on the build you are using. Double clicking the Source Control node in the Team Explorer will bring up the Source Control Explorer window.  What I learned recently is that holding the shift key and...

Look for TFS Beta 3 in September, RTM in Q1 ’06

August 22, 2005 Aug 22, 2005 08/22/05

Buck Hodges

Beta 3 for Team Foundation will be released in September along with Visual Studio 2005 Release Candidate 1.  One of the most significant points with beta 3 is that it will have a go-live license that includes data migration to RTM.  The details are in Soma's blog post for today: Visual Studio 2005 update.Here's a copy of the part ...

Why doesn’t Team Foundation get the latest version of a file on checkout?

August 20, 2005 Aug 20, 2005 08/20/05

Buck Hodges

I've seen this question come up a few times.  Doug Neumann, our PM, wrote a nice explanation in the Team Foundation forum (http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=70231). It turns out that this is by design, so let me explain the reasoning behind it.  When you perform a get operation to populate your workspace with a ...

Dogfood statistics update

August 20, 2005 Aug 20, 2005 08/20/05

Buck Hodges

John Lawrence posted the latest set of dogfood system statistics.  The deltas are from May I think, since it says checkins are up 4,500.  The June/early-July statistics are here.  One thing to note is that we now have more than 600,000 files and folders in the system.  Hopefully, we'll hit 1 million in the not too distant ...

Upgraded

July 28, 2005 Jul 28, 2005 07/28/05

Buck Hodges

The dogfood system is now based on the July CTP (it's nearly the same).  Surprisingly, we had to fix the NIC setting on the production dogfood server.  This time we knew where to look when we saw terrible data transfer rates from the server.  Rather than being explicitly set to half duplex, it was set to auto.  However, it ...

July CTP for Team Foundation is headed your way

July 27, 2005 Jul 27, 2005 07/27/05

Buck Hodges

Rob Caron just posted that the July CTP is making its way through MSDN now.  As Rob points out, be sure to check out the Known Issues and Readme pages.One of the things that held up the release was we spent Monday trying to figure out why the communication between the source control mid-tier and client was terrible.  Downloads ...