Buck Hodges

Are you looking to convert from ClearCase to Team Foundation?

January 25, 2005 Jan 25, 2005 01/25/05

Buck Hodges

The Program Manager for the ClearCase converter, Akash Maheshwari, wants to hear from Clearcase users interested in VSTS.  If you are a ClearCase user, this is your chance to influence the development of the converter...

Branching and Merging in the Dec. CTP

January 24, 2005 Jan 24, 2005 01/24/05

Buck Hodges

Back in the summer I wrote several posts on branching and merging in Team Foundation Source Control.  They are also relevant for the Dec. CTP if you are interested in this very important part of SCM...

How to delete a team project in the Dec. CTP

January 24, 2005 Jan 24, 2005 01/24/05

Buck Hodges

Someone in the newsgroup asked how to delete a team project.  I asked James and he mentioned DeleteTeamProject.exe. From a Visual Studio command prompt, you can use the following command line app to delete a project.  To get the command prompt, go to Start -> All Programs -> Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Beta ->...

Team Foundation Source Control client API example

January 22, 2005 Jan 22, 2005 01/22/05

Buck Hodges

This blog post is obsolete. Please see https://devblogs.microsoft.com/buckh/team-foundation-version-control-client-api-example-for-tfs-2010-and-newer/ Here's a really simple example that uses the source control API () in the Dec. CTP.  It shows how to create a workspace, pend changes, check in those changes, and hook up some important event...

How to use shelving from the command line

January 19, 2005 Jan 19, 2005 01/19/05

Buck Hodges

Shelving is a really useful feature that was included for the first time with the Dec. CTP.  Shelving allows you to save your changes to a shelveset on the server.  The shelveset consists of the same kind of information that a checkin does, except that you aren't checking in.  You don't create a new changeset.  Rather, you ...

Problems with large files and the Dec. CTP in Team Foundation Version Control

January 18, 2005 Jan 18, 2005 01/18/05

Buck Hodges

If you try, as one person in the Team Foundation newsgroup did, to checkin large files (>200 MB or so), you will reach a point where it fails with a message like "there is not enough storage to complete this command."  That is due to the fact that the Dec. CTP uses the MSPatch library to compress files for upload.  The ...

Checkin policies and the December CTP

January 6, 2005 Jan 6, 2005 01/6/05

Buck Hodges

Problem with CleanBuildPolicy in the December CTPWhen you try to configure a new checkin policy, you will get an error regarding the CleanBuildPolicy.  That policy has a problem due to it or one of its dependencies not being properly signed.  You can work around the problem by removing it from the registry by deleting the following ...

December CTP is available!

December 30, 2004 Dec 30, 2004 12/30/04

Buck Hodges

Since my last post ages ago was about a CTP release, I'll start back up again with a post to point to the December CTP.  This one is definitely an improvement over the last one, though it is clear we still have a ways to go.You may want to check out the newsgroups for VSTS.  There are a number of people there who post information ...

VSTS CTP release, including the Team Foundation portion this time

September 1, 2004 Sep 1, 2004 09/1/04

Buck Hodges

If you have access to the MSDN downloads or can get a hold of one the DVDs, you can now try out Hatteras and the rest of the Team Foundation along with the rest of Team System.  You'll need several machines to install the CTP release of Team System included in the VS2005 Beta 1 Refresh.This release is very close to what we use ...