My development team is moving to branching soon - we've been cursed with SourceSafe and we're moving to Team Foundation Server - and I'm curious about something. Traditionally when we do major revisions to our product, to the point where not even the folder structure or the filenames stay the same, we do a new root folder in source cont...
The title more or less sums it up. We use MS TFS as our version control which integrates to eclipse via the teamprise plug-in (Corp standard, primarily an MS shop. I wish we could just use SVN, because frankly the Teamprise plug-in is rather atrocious). Suppose that someone commits a file with changes that we want to keep, just not ye...
I need to make changes to files locked by another user who is not accessible any more. How can I unlock the files without having to log in using their account in Visual Studio 2008 TFS? ...
In the default TFS setup there are three work item types: scenario, task and bug. That last one is quite straightforward, and task also: it's a specific job for a team member to complete. But I think scenario is a bit vague. I usually create a scenario for larger and more general units of work: for example "Create functionality to add e...
Visual Studio Team System and Team Foundation Server offers a lot of goodies like source control, unit testing and automatic building. I'm wondering the following: What alternatives are there for .NET developers that has all of this? ...
Eric suggests that you read your team's diffs every morning. Can I get TFS to automate this in some way? Ideally I'd like an email with all of the differences in, but I'd settle for a link to each of the commits. ...
Hi, I have a separate server that runs tfs build. I created an account that will run the tfs build service. I am getting an error because it says it can't access the drop folder. what permissions do I have to give the tfs build service account? I believe it has to be apart of some tfs specific groups? Update I decided just to use ...
We have a trunk in TFS that everyone works off until we have a need to branch. Our last project was a large feature that required a branch. Now that the development has been completed and the changes have been merged back into the trunk. What should happen to the development branch? Should I delete it? Mark it as read-only somehow? Wha...
Hi, I finally got the server account working for the build. Now when I run a skeleton build it is stuck on the 'getting sources' step, the green bar is glowing and all but no other response? ...
Is it possible to get a list of all changesets that are different between two different TFS branches? I'm not talking about file differences. I have a main code base (MAIN). I create a new branch from that called (MAIN-BRANCH). I create another branch called (RELEASE). I check-in five times to MAIN-BRANCH, then merge to MAIN. I want to...
Hi, I'm in the process of moving users from an "old" Windows domain to a "new" one and need to reflect these changes in TFS permissions. I've been successfully following the instruction in this MSDN article: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms404883.aspx But I've stumbled into an end-case that the article does not cover. For ...
Hi, I am working on a C# project which must be built for more than one platform (.Net and CF.Net) and from past experiences I have found that the best approach that works for me is to have multiple parallel solutions present side by side in the same folder corresponding to each platform. All the code files, resources etc are shared by t...
What is the concept of each? When is it ok to shelve your changes instead of checking in? ...
Using Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio 2008, is there a way to highlight the submissions since my last "get latest version"? This would allow me to quickly identify what has been submitted since my last "pull" without having to remember which changeset I last synced with. Thanks. Eric ...
Has anybody had any success getting Team Build to show xUnit.net test results and code coverage in the build report? The MSBuild runner is running the tests just fine and the results are in the log file, but the test results and code coverage results areas of the build report say "No test result" and "No coverage result" respectively. ...
Hi, In TFS, I want to see how many files I modified for a day/week/etc. Is this possible? ...
When running a TFS build, will it always download all the files for the project, or can it use a previous builds download (as long as the files didn't change). ...
Does anyone know how get a listing of all files changed in multiple changesets in Visual Studio Team System 2005? I basically want to see a listing of all files changed from the start of a development effort till the end. ...
I would like users do to it themselves, but I don't want everyone to be an adminstrator. ...
We are building a website, which is serving only asmx-webservices. These webervices are consumed by Windows Mobile clients. Our developers write the code and test most of the functions on their development machines. Then they use the "Publish Website" function in Visual Studio to precompile the website and to copy it to a network share....