Sometime in the last few days the Source Control Explorer in VS 2005 stopped responding. I would click on in under the expanded TFS Project and nothing. After some research I found that it may either be related to the computer browser service or to a corrupted VS 2005 user settings file. It turned out to be the later. A post from Shannon Braun pointed me in the right direction. So after using the command line option to reset VS 2005: "%programfiles%\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe"...
Microsoft released Microsoft Visual Studio Team System Web Access yesterday as a Power Tool. The model is the same as the TeamPlain release, free to licensed TFS users. It's supported, but not an official product. Have fun
I've been working on a custom process template for a client in TFS and came across some things that I didn't know. Now I am not an Analysis services guy so this was a little new to me. It took me forever to find decent definitions on how to correctly set "reportable" in TFS. The docs on this, how to use it, and what it should be set to, etc can be a bit tricky to find. It wasn't until I picked up Professional Team Foundation System that I got a clear answer. After a little bit of tinkering and some...
I've been working heavily on creating a custom Process Template for XP development in TFS and came across a very basic task: Add the process template source to source control. After hours and hours of tweaking, editing, and debuing the core process templates I would hate to lose them. Not to mention the process itself its an iterative process therefore should be versioned and managed by some control system. Well, of course it is not quite as obvious as it seems. In VSS it was pretty simple to add...