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.
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.
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 -> Vis...
This blog post is obsolete.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 listen...
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 creat...
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 working set...
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 key.&n...
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 based on...
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 everyday.&n...
Jim Presto, a tester on the Hatteras team, has got a blog going. He starts off with checkin and promises to delve into checkin policies next. Now, he mentions that “hopefully everyone has the concept of a portfolio project,” but I'm not sure about that. Perhaps James will post some more about that and how it relates to...
