January 2008 - Posts

Working offline with TFS - Making Files Editable

Working offline with TFS is different than with Visual SourceSafe.  On the one hand, VSS is better integrated with Visual Studio, so its pretty easy to unlock files for editing offline, you just begin editing them.  On the other hand, VSS can Read More

Adventures with Team Foundation Server - Installation, Part 2

As I mentioned in my previous post, I reluctantly decided to plow my server under and start afresh with a new installation.  There were still a couple of issues that came blazing in from far out in the mindless reaches of the productization effort.  Read More

Adventures with Team Foundation Server - Installation, Part 1

Introduction I’ve begun the (forced) conversion to Team Foundation Server with my recent (desired) transition to VS 2008.  It’s been an interesting experience to put it mildly.  As with the great majority of my interactions with Read More

Adventures with Team Foundation Server 2008 - The VSS 2005 Bait and Switch

Before launching into the gory details of my recent conversion to TFS I feel its necessary to address an issue that I consider to be completely reprehensible on Microsoft's part.  It’s not a technical issue so much as a product and market decision, Read More

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