Rajiv Popat - February 2006 Entries

Minor Hiccups with TFS "Zombie" projects...

Hmmm... So, after my first encounter with TFS and some more reading on the stuff I have to say I was impressed! I did what any developer in his right mind would do - decided to take it for a ride on a small internal project which has a team size of around 5 people. But by the time I had got through the basic problems which I described in my post “Encounter with Foundation Server” I had already created for myself and my team 2 Zombie Projects which were lurching somewhere “out there”.......

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