I've used TFS for about 18 months now and I'm really not excited about it. It seems like the worst of the current versions of SCMs on the market. I think this thread will help people decide if TFS is for them vs. other source control systems. While TFS does a lot more than that, I think that source control is so critical to software de...
Hi As a developer I am a user of Subversion at the moment and I am changing job and going to work for a company that uses Team Foundation Server I would like to learn the basic and more as user of Team Foundation Server What do I need to do to replicate the enviroment and practice a bit? Any Tips ? What should I read? Can I simulate...
What are the steps I should do and everything I should consider when upgrading from Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite to Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate? Where can things go wrong? Consider the fact I'm using TFS 2008 and have Continuous Integration and Nightly Builds on build machines. ...
Can someone point me to documentation on setting up a TFS 2008 build server? ...
I have a C# project that is booked into TFS. However, for some reason one of the forms within the project has not booked in. I can’t work out how to force this to book in, as right-clicking on the source file doesn’t give me the option to check-in. All the other files in the project are booked in, and I can see them using the Source C...
Question: What is the best practice for creating branches for development and release based on the information provided below? Background: I work in a small development team (2.25 frontend, 2 backend), and we have a yearly release schedule. Our environment does not allow for patches or services packs mid-year, but every once in a while...
When I build my solution, it dumps all the binaries into one folder. How can I cause it to split up the files by project like Visual Studio does? ...
In our office we have setup TFS for project development. The TFS Server is WIN 2003 server SP2 with VSTFS 2008 and is running fine. Now we need to setup a TFS Proxy server on client site for client to access. Before going for the client setup, I wanted to build and test proxy in our office on a dummy server (will call it Proxy server her...
Hi, I would like to list all the branches in a TFS 2008 project. Currently, I'm trying to use this: VersionControlServer vcs = (VersionControlServer)tfs.GetService(typeof(VersionControlServer)); But, there's no method like "GetAllBranches()". Is it possible? Thanks! ...
How do I change the default state for a Work Item? I tried changing the transition with no source, but it still says "Active" as the default. I tried renaming the Active state to "Proposed", but it still says "Active". ...
I'm working on setting up multiple builds in TFS2008. In my build agent configuration I can select a working folder. However, every time I run any of my builds, it's using files from that working folder, including the tfsbuild.proj file that it finds there. So now I have builds that half do what I want and half do what is defined in f...
I am new to TFS and trying to setup where remote users can access the Source Repository and Work Items without having a VPN to the local network. Is this possible? From what I've seen the answer is NO. The TFS Proxy component does NOT appear to be what is needed to allow remote access, but rather a way to improve speed for remote users...
From within TFS 2008, is there a way to view the disk space taken up on the server by a project (or by all projects)? Or is this something that can only be done by looking directly at the underlying database? ...
Wednesday I had to restore from a back-up image I made on Monday. At the time of the snapshot I had about 20 files modified, which I later checked in, and more, on Tuesday. Now that I am back to a snapshot from Monday morning, my workspace has all of these files checked-out or added, etc. even my check-in comments and work-item assoc...
CONTEXT: I am preparing a big C# merge using visual studio 2008 and TFS. I need to create a report with the files and the number of collisions (total changes and conflicts) for each file (and in total of course) PROBLEM: I cannot do it for two reasons (first one is solved): 1- Using TFS merge I can have access to the file comparison bu...
The alerts that I setup for source code changes isn't being triggered. I suspect that the email server settings are wrong, but where would I configure them? ...
How can I merge a chageset into label? ...
Our organization recently got TFS 2008 set up ready for our use. I have a practice TeamProject available to play with. To simplify slightly, we previous organized our code on disk like this: -EC - Main - Database - someScript1.sql - someScript2.sql - Documents - ReleaseNotes_V1.doc - Sourc...
Hi all, I want to pass a project to a colleague without SCC bindings to avoid accidental changes in my repository. Is it possible to do a clean checkout from a TFS 2008 repo? I'm going crazy finding such an option in VS2008. Thanks in advance. ...
Hi, I have been looking for a way to migrate and upgrade our TFS 2008 server to 2010 server preferably without losing any data. I have been looking at the TFS Integration Platform http://tfsintegration.codeplex.com/ and also Visual Studio 2010 TFS Upgrade Guide vs2010upgradeguide.codeplex.com Looking at the document TFS Integration P...