How to upgrade TFS 2005 to TFS 2008?
What is the best way to go about upgrading TFS 2005 to 2008? Also, what about the Team Build scripts ("Build Types"), are those compatible with Team Build 2008 or do they need converted/migrated somehow? ...
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Find in Files: Search all code in Team Foundation Server
Is there a way to search the latest version of every file in TFS for a specific string or regex? This is probably the only thing I miss from Visual Source Safe... Currently I perform a Get Latest on the entire codebase and use Windows Search, but this gets quite painful with over 1GB of code in 75,000 files. EDIT: Tried the powerto...
TFS - Branching for experimental development: Solution fails to load
Disclaimer: I'm stuck on TFS and I hate it. My source control structure looks like this: /dev /releases /branches /experimental-upgrade I branched from dev to experimental-upgrade and didn't touch it. I then did some more work in dev and merged to experimental-upgrade. Somehow TFS complained that I had changes in both source and...
Why won't my 2008 Team Build trigger on developer check-ins despite CI being enabled
I have a Team Foundation Server 2008 Installation and a separate machine with the Team Build service. I can create team builds and trigger them manually in Visual Studio or via the command line (where they complete successfully). However check ins to the source tree do not cause a build to trigger despite the option to build every check...
View TFS checkin history through merges?
In TFS when you merge branch A to branch B and checkin, you get a single changeset on B (typically with a comment like "merged A->B"). This means B doesn't have any of the checkin history from A. So if someone created a new file on branch A, you can't tell who created it from branch B. And if someone updated a file on A, you can't t...
Renaming the containing project folder in VS.net under TFS.
I have a vs.net project, and after some refactoring, have modified the name of the project. How can I easily rename the underlying windows folder name to match this new project name under a TFS controlled project and solution? Note, I used to be able to do by fiddling with things in the background using SourceSafe ... ...
How to recover a deleted branch in TFS?
I deleted a branch in TFS and just found out that I need the changes that were on it. How do I recover the branch or the changes done on it? ...
Creating a Patch with TFS
Creating a patch is very easy in SubVersion, With Tortoise, you right-click and select Create Patch. But for the life of me, I can't find this functionality in TFS. Is this possible? If not, what's the standard way to submit patches in open source TFS hosted projects (a la CodePlex)? ...
Cross-Branch merging in TFS?
Is it possible to merge to a branch that is not a direct parent or child in TFS? I suspect that the answer is no as this is what I've experienced while using it. However, it seems that at certain times it would be really useful when there are different features being worked on that may have different approval cycles (ie. feature one mi...
How can I modify a Work Item type to include additional information in TFS?
TFS2008. I'd like to track task points on a Task work item, but there isn't anywhere (other than the description) to record this. I'd like to add a dropdown with 0, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, etc, so these task points can be exported in reports. ...
Setting up Team foundation server
Hi, I have to setup team foundation server for a company, something that I don't have any experience in. The company will have about 5 or so developers that will be using it. Is this a big task or something that is fairly easy to do (with instructions)? Any helpful tutorials that you can recommend? Any recommendations on server specs...
TFS vs open source alternatives?
We're currently in the process of setting up a source control/build/and more-server for .NET development and we're thinking about either utilizing the Team Foundation Server (which costs a lot of dough) or combining several open source options, such as SourceForge Enterprise/GForge and Subversion and CruiseControl.net and so on. Has anyo...
What are the real benefits of TFS for the individual developer?
The question of TFS versus OSS has already been asked, with most answers tending toward OSS as the better alternative. I'm in a position where my employer (an ISV with a mix of onshore, offshore development staff) is about to take the plunge to TFS. We currently develop with VS 2008, subversion, and various supporting toolsl NUnit, NCo...
How to modify the defaul Check-in Action in TFS?
The default check-in action for a work-item is "resolve". I'd like to set it to "associate" so that this work item isn't automaticaly closed if I check-in stuff too fast. How can I do that? Thanks. ...
Do you get one instance of TFS Workgroup per MSDN license?
I work for a small shop that currently only has two full MSDN developer licenses. The license allows you to run the Workgroup edition of TFS. We have one running, but its a pain in the butt dealing with who gets access to it (only five seats on the Workgroup edition). I'm wondering, since we have two MSDN dev licenses, can we host two...
Why isn't there a Team Foundation Server Express Edition?
Why isn't there a Team Foundation Server Express Edition? ...
Agile project and amount of Documentation
What kind of documentation you'd recommend to support for Agile project? What are the core metrics you use to detect amount of documentation needed? Do you think you can store all of project info as TFS work items? ...
What is the best way to integrate TFS version control with XCode?
Working on implementing TFS throughout our organization. It is easy to integrate with .NET projects and any platform that uses Eclipse or a derivative of Eclipse for editing. What's the best way to use TFS version control with XCode (now that I find out we need to write some iPhone applications)? ...
Report templates for Team Foundation Server 2008
Does anybody have links to site or pre built report running on the SQL Analysis Service provided by TFS2008? Creating a meaningful Excel report or a new report sometime is a very boring and difficult taks, maybe finding a way to share reports could be a good idea? ...
Is there a code review tool with Word like annotation functionality and TFS integration?
I'm looking for a code review tool that has something like Word's review tools. I would like the ability to add a note in the side bar that references a specific block of code as well as to have portions of the code that are changed tracked so that someone else can open the file later and accept/reject the changes. If it were integrate...