DYK #4 : unshelve with local pending changes
You might already have been in the situation where you wanted to unshelve a stored shelveset when having local changes to files that were also changed in the stored shelveset. Out-of-the-box with TFS...
View ArticleVisual differences of changesets via command-line
Scenario : as a developer you want to manually view all the differences between the two last changesets without having to spend your time reviewing file after file in the UI differences window. Go the...
View ArticleBranching in TFS2010: atomic operation without pending changes
Currently in TFS2008 when you create a new branch in your version control structure, all files are copied to your local worspace and marked as pending changes. This means that a branch in TFS2008 is...
View ArticleTFS2010: Visualization of merging partial changes in changeset
Yesterday (during the Source Code Management session of Brian Harry at TechEd 2009 in Berlin), I noticed for the first time that merging partial changes in a changeset is also clearly visible...
View ArticleDeleted Team Projects still visible in Source Control Explorer
Today I bumped into a solution for deleting deleted Team Projects (yip, that’s right: deleting Team Projects that should have been already deleted). A while ago we noticed that Team Projects in TFS2008...
View ArticleTechdays Belgium 2010 – Session details
This year I presented a session at Techdays Belgium on Branching & Merging with Team Foundation Server 2010. The session slides can be downloaded in the download section of this blog. Watch...
View ArticleThe Gated Check-in build in TFS2010
Everybody should be already familiar with Continuous Integration or should I say Continuous Building? Automatically building a development codeline after a check-in is often not immediately followed by...
View ArticleIntegration of Dynamics CRM 2011 solutions with TFS
Some weeks ago I was asked for a proof of concept to design a TFS 2010 solution to fully (not less than 100%) automate a complex Dynamics CRM 2011 deployment for various environments (dev / test /...
View ArticleVersion Control with Team Foundation Server 2010
On February 15, I will do a Microsoft Live Webcast on “What you should know about Version Control in Team Foundation Server 2010”. Unlike Visual SourceSafe (VSS), which relied on a file-based storage...
View ArticleDestroying deleted branches in TFS
Everyone using a version control system will have ever used a delete command to delete files/folders which are not required anymore. Team Foundation Verion Control (TFVC) treats a delete [tf delete] as...
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