Hello Everyone, We've planned to move from Visual SourceSafe to TFS. For this purpose, we brought a new server machine with updated specs and TFS installed. The Visual SourceSafe machine still has its use in the environment as the TFS machine dedicated for a single project. All the projects are there in Visual SourceSafe machine and ar...
I want to unbind my sln file from TFS server and publish it on SVN is there any "easy" option to do this. It's easy to open sln and chose unbind option in Visual Studio, but does any one ever tried to automate this process? There is a solution to edit sln file using xmlpoke and deleting binding information, but is it safe? ...
We are running TFS 2010 Beta 2 on the source control server. I am running Visual Studio 2008 Sp1 with the team explorer plus compatibility pack so that it can connect to 2010. Everything is fine! I had connected to the server and setup my workspace, checked in all our source code and could make changes and check them in and it would ass...
Can I setup Team Foundation Server in such a manner that every uer have only access to some source code files? ...
I'm looking for a tool to browse and view files stored within a Team Foundation Server without using Visual Studio. As I'm doing most development on a virtual machine, it's very annoying to wake it up only to have a look on a certain file. So is there a way to browse a TFS without Visual Studio? ...
We are coming from a Visual Source Safe background and are trying to look at migrating to team foundation server 2008. I'm having some trouble understanding how to set up the source control. Consider the following folder structure in Figure #1 below on the file system: Figure #1: C:\src\01-development Proj1 Proj2 Proj3 Proj4 Proj5 ...
I'd like to disable the automatic merge feature when checking in a file to TFS that another developer has worked on so that I always need to merge manually. Is there any way to do this? ...
I have Team Build set up against multiple branches with multiple solutions in each branch. Currently my notification tels me that the build has broken ina branch but I need to open the build report and drill down to find out which solution failed to build. Is there any way to get a break down of which solution failed in an email or othe...
I’m using a few custom MSBuild tasks that are checked into source control. I would like to import these tasks into my TFSBuild.proj file that TFS uses to build the project. Right now I have created a 2nd project file that includes all of the uses of these custom tasks. I do this because I can run this project file after the workspace has...
Hello, I'm trying to run WatiN tests through continuous build on TFS, but I can't get it to work. The errror I get is following: WatiN.Core.Exceptions.IENotFoundException : Could not find an IE window matching constraint: Timeout while waiting to attach to newly created instance of IE.. Search expired after '30' seconds. at WatiN...
I'm currently in the process of investigating TFS 2010, as it's been agreed that we'll be getting VS2010 Professional when it's released and it comes with TFS Basic (we're currently stuck with VSS, and were considering moving to SubVersion prior to the TFS Basic announcement). I've downloaded an installed the Beta 2 of TFS 2010 and insta...
We are looking for a work item tracking tool (bugs, enhancements, etc.) for our company software projects. The company is a big MS shop and we're thinking about using TFS Basic with VS 2010 since it will provide us with a host of additional ALM features as well. Does anyone know if TFS Basic can be used in conjunction with non-Visual S...
I need to strong name and code sign my assemblies. I dont want to change anything in Visual Studio, all changes must be on the TFS Build server. Any know how I can do this? ...
Using Git at home has spoiled me - I now find using TFS at work to be a bit of a drag and want to explore the possibility of using Git locally and syncing somehow with TFS. I figure there are a few different ways this can be done and would like to hear from people that have attempted it. I've found a blog post that describes a relativel...
As the resident TFS admin, on occasion I am asked to undo a checkout (usually a lock) that a user has on a certain file. This can be done via the command line using the TF.exe utility's Undo command (see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/c72skhw4.aspx), but that's kind of a pain. Is there a way to undo another user's checkout via...
As the resident TFS admin, on occasion I am asked to undo a checkout (usually a lock) that a user has on a certain file checked into source control. How do you undo another user's checkout? ...
Hey guys. I think the title is very clear, but also i want to say why: I already downloaded TFS 2010 and Team explorer 2010, but i'm still using VS2008 (with no short-time plans to change) My question, can i use those toghether? Also, my VS is just the professional version. I don't want to download the TE2008 because for my internet cone...
How to add users to team foundation server 2008 using TFS SDK? I want to add these users to the contributors group of 1 of my team projects. ...
Does anyone have a best practice Project Template for Visual Studio 2008 MASM projects? I don't know why Microsoft shipped VS with MASM but epxect you to use a blank C++ project when there is so much that could have been added by default using a Project Template. Also, is there a project connector for TFS 2008 for MASM projects as I ha...
Does anybody have any recommendations for managing database changes with Team System 2008 and Team Foundation Server 2008? I am a developer for my company and was hoping to achieve source control over the database stored procedures, triggers, tables etc... with TFS 2008. We are currently using TFS 2008 to manage our source code for o...