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New Post: 2010 Version?

spottedmahn — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 15:55:45 GMT

Thanks David!

New Post: 2010 Version?

davidkallen — Sun, 03 Jun 2012 14:24:20 GMT

They should probably post a prominent message on the home page saying all this has been superceded by guidance provided by the Visual Studio ALM Rangers. If you are interested in this content, take a look at

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudioalm/

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/ee358786

The stuff remaining on this P&P site is of historical significance. It has some useful ideas still, and is worth keeping, but the ALM Rangers have invested huge amounts of time over the last few years. They have been prolific in producing guidance drawn from their consulting practices.

I hope the links are helpful to you.

New Post: 2010 Version?

WalterSpjut — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 13:17:39 GMT

Hello, Mike

It's now mid-2012 and they have not updated their documentation to include TFS 2010! What's really sad is that it's not really that unusual for Microsoft to drag their feet when it comes to timely or useful documentation.

New Post: 2010 Version?

spottedmahn — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 16:24:51 GMT

Hello,

I'm wondering if this site will be updated for the TFS 2010 version?

More specifically, what I'm really interested in is how do I use TFS over the WAN? Like this Forum Post

Thanks,

Mike D.

New Post: TFS & Disk structure - folders vs solutions

nealwalters — Sat, 22 May 2010 00:56:50 GMT

A lot of the guide seems to be geared toward adding new solutions. What if we just built our solutions without TFS, and now we want to load them into TFS?

I have built the disk structure to following the general guides, except on thing that I didn't see.

For example, our .NET and BizTalk naming convention is something like this: CompanyName.AppName.AppFunction.BizTalk.Type.

I currently have the disk structured Under Project/Main/Source/CompanyName/ApplicationName/AppFunction.BizTalk/Type/CompanyName.ApplicationName.AppFunction.BizTalk.Artifacts.sln.

I remember having to following this type of pattern at some place I worked in the past. Is it advised to match the disk directory to your xx.xx.xx.xx naming convention of your projects?

So when I check in - it looks like I have two options: I could either do 1) "Add Folder" and pull in my whole "Project"Directory (with all children) at once,
or 2) I could open each solution and check it in.

Thanks,

Neal Walters

New Post: It is correct set Database schema in folder Source of Folders Structure

collarad — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:07:16 GMT

Hello,

I would like to know if is correct Database scripts in Source folder of folders structure

Main

Source

MyApp1

MyDatabaseSchema <--- Is this correct ?

Or where should the database scripts be set?

Thanks in advanced for your feedback

New Post: Report showing changes between labels

jesterbratt — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:45:06 GMT

Should be simple, how do I generate a report showing the changes between two labeled versions of our code?

Thanks

Jess

New Post: Added Folder to TFS structure, old labels broken?

jesterbratt — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:59:37 GMT

We have a large code base in TFS with several labeled versions. We added a new folder to our TFS structure at the root. Now it seams we are unable to retrieve the versions labeled prior to adding this new folder.

Should we still be able to get using our "old" labels? - old meaning before we added the new folder?

Is there something we should have done to "update" the labels?

Thanks

Jess

New Post: Where is the TFS2008 version?

dalepres — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:11:21 GMT

Is there a 2008 version of this document?

Regards,

Dale

New Post: TFS 2005 and Project Server 2007 integration

mwaseemalvi — Wed, 13 May 2009 07:14:00 GMT

Dear All
I have one question about TFS 2005. I have installed TFS2005 on one machine and Project Server 2007 is installed on another machine. Now I can access the Project Server 2007 from TFS 2005 Project. Now my question is that can we add the project plan in Project Management node which are visible in this node. Currently when I open the Project plan from this node then it open empty plan and after that I can access my plan against this project. I want to add my plan in this node which save on Project Server 2007. Any one know about it please let me know.

Thanks.

Software Configuration Management Engineer

New Post: TFS with SQL Server Standard Edition

krishnakonline — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:43:34 GMT

Hi,

We recently purchansed the TFS 2008 and we received the accompanying SQL Server Standard Edition CD with it.

My question is does this SQL Server Standard Edition(which came with TFS 2008) have any limitation with it, in other words.. is it in anyway different than the usual SQL Server Standard Edition?

Thanks,
Krishna

New Post: Customize checkin to copy comment into associated work item

tkraft — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:46:25 GMT

This is a request we've received to allow more information to flow into a work item as it is being worked by developers.
What would be involved to customize the check in process so that the comment is inserted into the history along with / or instead of the "Associated with changeset ##" text?
Is this something that could be done with custom checkin policy - I suspect not since that is used to indicate go/nogo on checkin.
Thanks

New Post: SourceSafe vs Team

rfcdejong — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 14:07:35 GMT

hi FabioG,

Don't stay with SourceSafe! I've been working with visual sourcesafe for years and years and i never really liked it although it suite you well if u don't know about other sourcecontrol or even Continious integration.

There is alot of tooling better as sourcesafe, think about subversion which is even free! :)

But Team Foundation Server is a solution to alot of problems, not only being a sourcecontrol integrated in visual studio but also:

- Template based working with for example MSF Agile
- Bug & issue tracking
- Buildserver
- Alot of reports and the ability to make custom reports.

As far as i can think about differences between sourcecontrol in vss and in tfs is:

- The speed, sourcesafe with pending changes can take an hour and TFS just a few seconds. That is all because sourcesafe is file based and TFS is on working against SQL Server.
- Ease, sourcesafe checks out in a working folder and that it. For versions u have branches and labels, but just isn't easy to work with. TFS is better integrated and for example.. it's alot easier to bugfix on an earlier version.
- check-in policies etc etc..

Greetings,
Raymond de Jong

New Post: Is this newer than the same document on MSDN?

JeroenRitmeijer — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:27:41 GMT

On MSDN there is a document that appears to be the same (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb668990.aspx).

Which one is more up to date? The copy on this site or the one on MSDN?

New Post: Customizing Team Build

sjsingh — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 06:42:25 GMT

Hi All,

There is a small issue i am facing. Please can anybody help me resolve this.

<UsingTask TaskName="BuildNumberGenerator.GenBuildNumber" AssemblyFile="bin\BuildNumberGenerator.dll" />

I am using the this line in my TFSBuild.proj.
The dll is placed in TeamBuildTypes\BuildName\Bin folder.

But when i run the build i get following error:

error MSB4062: The "BuildNumberGenerator.GenBuildNumber" task could not be loaded from the assembly C:\Documents and Settings\****\Local Settings\Temp\*****\BuildType\bin\BuildNumberGenerator.dll. Could not load file or assembly 'file:///C:\Documents and Settings\****\Local Settings\Temp\****\BuildType\bin\BuildNumberGenerator.dll' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified. Confirm that the <UsingTask> declaration is correct, and that the assembly and all its dependencies are available.

I had a look in the specidifed folder the bin folder is there but the dll is missing. Now my question is why is it not copying this dll to the temp folder?
Also Where can i place it so it picks it up.
I dont want to give any hardcoded path.

Thanks,

Sjsingh

New Post: Work Item Customization

KingArthur — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:03:53 GMT

Hi all,

Do you know if it's possible to filter allowed values in a "Assign To" field when the "State" field is in a particular state.

For example

For state Active you could assign the work Item to x, y ,z
if state Close you could assign the work Item to xa, ya, za.

Any way this could be done?

I tried with When rules on the state definition but with no sucess it only seems to work to one When rule. Nested When's do nothing.

Heres the code

<STATE value="Active">
          <FIELDS>
             <FIELD refname="System.AssignedTo">
              <WHEN field="System.State" value="Active">
                <ALLOWEXISTINGVALUE />
                <ALLOWEDVALUES>
                  <LISTITEM value="[project]\A" />
                  <LISTITEM value="[project]\B" />
                  <LISTITEM value="[project]\C" />
                  <LISTITEM value="[project]\D" />
                </ALLOWEDVALUES>
              </WHEN>
              <WHEN field="System.State" value="Closed">
                <ALLOWEDVALUES>
                  <LISTITEM value="[project]\D" />
                </ALLOWEDVALUES>
              </WHEN>
            </FIELD>
          </FIELDS>
        </STATE>

Regards
Artur

New Post: SourceSafe vs Team

fgrande — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:40:07 GMT

Hi all.
We are a small group of three developers, working with VS2008 and SourceSafe.
I just downlaoded Your book, and I'm going to read it.... I'm trying to understand if would be bettere for us to move to Team Suite or not.

Basically, we have 2 distinct solutions :

1) A solution that create a series of DLL
2) A solution (Web Site) that use the previous DLL

Those DLL are not strictly linked to the Web Site, they can be used also by others Solutions... That's why we put them in two different solutions.

The first solution has a configuration (Named "Final Debug") that create the DLL in a shared directory. The second solution get those DLL from the shared directory.

The problem is that when I compile the DLLs in "Final Debug", I CAN also debug the web site, but my coleagues CANNOT.

Is there something wrong in what we did ? Are there different ways to do this letting all of us debug the Web Site, no matter who was the last one that compiled the DLL project ?

Would be different/easier with Team Studio ? Which are, in a handful of words, the differences between SourceSafe and TFS in terms of source control and branching ?

Thanks
FabioG

New Post: Starteam vs Team Foundation Server

rfcdejong — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:40:58 GMT

hello,

maybe it is a good argument for a new chapter?
compare TFS with other SCM.
it's almost impossible to find any information regarding the differences between all the SCM.

My company is using Starteam for all the delphi source, but our new projects are build within visual studio.
I cannot find any information to convince them to use TFS :(

Does any of u have information Why to choose TFS above Starteam?

Greetings,
Raymond

New Post: Installing VS on another machine and do not want to lose my custom queries.

Runout — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:40:44 GMT

Is there a file that saves your custom queries so that when I install to another machince I can just copy that file over instead of creating the queries all over again? I have alot of Team Explorer user created queries. Thanks in advance.

New Post: Shared code considerations - multiple branches

baba — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:54:35 GMT

Hi all.
I have been trying to restructure our source control according to best practices outlined in tfsguide. Everything has worked out great so far eliminating some of the awkwardness we have experienced with the previous setup. However I am having some problems with shared projects.
The chapter "Shared Code Considerations" in "How To: Structure your windows applications for team foundation server" (http://www.codeplex.com/Project/Download/FileDownload.aspx?ProjectName=VSTSGuidance&DownloadId=9473) points out two ways to handle shared projects:

Reference the code from a shared location
Branch the shared code

I am trying to go with the branching strategy but have run into a snag - what to do when you have multiple branches of the same shared project? In my case this is a shared util project that I have branched into two projects that both are dependencies for the third project. Now I have two possibly different branches of the shared code and have no way of referencing both of them in the solution file for the third project. Is there a workaround or do I need to create a third branch into the third project where I merge changes from the other two and reference only that branch?

I have been posting on MSDN about this scenario but so far have gotten no response (http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=3689115&SiteID=1)

I am hoping that someone here would be able to clarify what to do in this scenario as I am pretty lost atm.

Thanks in advance.