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After moving a branch from one TFS server to another I got the error: "The item \$TFSProject\mylocation\myf... does not exist at the specified version". First I thought the Check in was buggy and went to another machine. And like a miracle it worked there. Then I googled and found out that this usually relates a messed up workspace. Especially the following link was very interesting: http://forums.microsoft.com... But this was not my problem. I had two...

I am sorry this is not a C# blog today. I am still in TFS land :-) Recently I was talking to different people about when to create a new TFS project or reuse an existing one. Here is what I got out of the conversations: - Too many projects slow down the server and are hard to maintain. (Depending on the project type, TFS 2008 has an upper limit of around 200 - 500 projects) - Security on too many projects can be very hard to maintain (especially keeping track of current permissions, removing expired...

Hi y'all Today I was asking myself an interesting question. So please everyone who read this please give comments!!!! Me as a developer, I do not like rules for Source Control. But as soon as your local machine crashes or you get a solution out of TFS which does not compile or you become a Project Manager or …. You really feel like making a change to my own habits. Pain is sometimes the best motivator. But what are the best rules for TFS (or SourceControl in general) without going overboard? Here...