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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 means. ...

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 more...

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 the ot...

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 direct...

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 powerfu...

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 files,...

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 backg...

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

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 signific...

Rob Caron posted a link to the re-launched VSTS User Education team blog.  It includes a post of the procedures for backing up and restoring Team Foundation Server.  That includes the databases, SharePoint, reports, etc.  It also includes restoring TFS to a different server.  There have been lots of requests for this in the foru...