The beta 2 Virtual PC image was hugely popular. The new Team Foundation beta 3 VPC image is now making its way up to MSDN. So, later today or Monday you'll be able to download and run a single-server and client beta 3. Just make sure you have plenty of RAM since you'll be running everything on one machine (say 2GB+).
In the forum, Carl Daniel reported getting the message "Invalid access code (bad parameter)" when comparing two different versions of a file in Team Foundation Source Control Beta 3.Unfortunately this is a bug that was discovered and fixed after beta 3 was released. The problem is that large files (on the order of 500K) will crash the diffmer...
You can find the latest dogfood statistics on Brian's blog.[Update 10/12] John Lawrence also has the statistics as usual, including Excel charts. I saw Brian's, and I didn't think to check there.
On the forum, a couple of users have run into this issue with get, so I thought I would mention it here.There's a known issue in beta 3 where mapping a server path to a local path that exceeds the NTFS limit results in a SQL error message. The RTM code will give you a nice message to that effect rather than the SQL error message. A ...
Ed Hintz has started blogging with a post that describes some of the differences between working with SourceSafe and working with TFS. Ed's the dev lead for the source control client team and is the person to whom I report. So, check it out and be sure to let him know about the things you do and don't like in the TFS source control...
For folks who like command lines or those who've found the typical command line experience a little spartan, you should try tf.exe.One interesting feature of our command line is that it uses dialogs for a number of commands when you are running it interactively (i.e., you don't specify /noprompt or /i). For instance, you get the same check-in...
A while back I wrote a little about what's changed since beta 2 and the release of beta 3.Brian Harry, the person who heads Team Foundation (he is Product Unit Manager), has just written the post about what changed. In What's new with TFS Beta 3?, he covers the whole product, as you might expect. You'll want to read it.On...
Chris Menegay's article on MSDN, Using Source Code Control in Team Foundation, provides a good overview of some of the major features. As a part of Visual Studio 2005 Team System and the new Team Foundation Server, Microsoft is providing a true enterprise-class source code control system. Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) is provided as part o...
Akash Maheshwari, PM for the source control converters for TFS, has posted a set of articles on using the VSS converter with TFS beta 3. You'll want to check that out if you are converting from VSS, because that's the most up-to-date source of information.
If you add the Code Analysis check-in policy to your Team Project, you'll see two entries for Source Control on the File menu in VS, as shown below. All of the standard menu items for TFS source control are under the second Source Control entry. The issue is cosmetic and is related to a change we made in the TFS source control provider u...
