Back in March, I wrote a post called How to check in changes on behalf of other users. Among other things, you'll find the documentation comments for the Workspace.CheckIn() method, which you'll notice is now on MSDN. While that and How to validate check-in policies, evaluate check-in notes, and check for conflicts are probably the...
Brian Keller mentioned that the transcript of the Sept. 6th chat is now available. Team System "Chat" transcript now available It looks like the the transcript from our September 6th "Chat" on MSDN is now available. It was great meeting everyone who could make it - we had nearly 150 people during the live session which is simply incredible! Team Sy...
Occasionally the question of whether to use the TeamFoundationServerFactory.GetServer() method or the TeamFoundationServer constructor comes up, and someone recently asked this question on an internal list. The answer depends on the needs of the application that you are writing. In this post, I'll discuss the main differences betwe...
If you haven't seen the new TreeDiff, you can see a screen shot in Brian Harry's post about the new release. It provides a VSS-style project difference tool that allows you not only to see what's changed but also reconcile changes.Tan Phan, a developer on the version control client team, has written a post describing how to customize the Tree...
Mario Rodriguez, a program manager on TFS version control, is seeking your input on what you need in the way of checkin policies for a future power toys release. An example might be a policy that wraps another policy to provide path filtering to more precisely control what files are subject to a particular checkin policy.Please leav...
This has come up before on the forums, but I don't think I've ever posted about it here. Today I saw a reference to the TFS Workspace Gotcha! post in today's Team System Rocks VSTS Links roundup. There's a command to deal with the problem, but it's not obvious.Here's the post. I have been working with a team that has recently migra...
Rob Caron mentioned that the SDK documentation is now on the MSDN web site. That SDK documentation includes the Team Foundation Server API documentation. Last year I pointed out where to find the version control documentation in the massive download that is the VS SDK, but you don't need to do that now.So, the good news is that the docu...
[UPDATE 8/9/07] I fixed the broken link to the power tools page.Brian Harry announced the latest release of the Team Foundation Power Toys in the post, New TFS Power Toys Available!. In his post he gives a quick description of each of the new commands and the major enhancements.One of the most important aspects of this release is that t...
I ran two searches on CodePlex to see what folks are developing for TFS. One search was for "TFS" and the other was for "Team Foundation," which I hope would be enough to catch them all. The second search only yielded one additional project (Time Tracker).It's always cool to see what folks come up with. Highly-motivated individual...
I saw Rob Caron mention this new MSDN article, and it's a topic that comes up relatively frequently. If you've wanted to know more about different strategies for organizing your branches, this article provides a nice overview and links for you to dig deeper. Another link that may interest you is an article on branching models mentioned ...
