It's frustrating to me to find myself redoing things that I've done before or re-solving problems. Over the years at Planet I've been involved with different software teams each with different levels of rigor, however most all of them have had, at minimum, an automated build process of some sort (at...

I find the number of clicks it takes to get to the Team Explorer a little long so I dug up this shortcut so that I can put it on a toolbar button. Customize your toolbars, select "View" from the available categories, then scroll down to the commands that start with T and you will find TfsSourceControlExplorer...

My friend Bob over at LearnVisualStudio.net has produced a set of videos about Team System . If you havnt had time to play vith VSTS, like me, these videos will give you a quick way to check out the functionality. Check 'em out over at the Team System Rocks site: http://teamsystemrocks.com/tutorials...

I have just been editing the project templates to enable HTML in the description field.  As it turns out, the description field is locked down as plain text. This history field is HTML though, and if you want to add formatting to it, just enable the formatting toolbar in Visual Studio. You can this...

Besides losing any code you may have written that you’ll never get back, those pending changes or locks will be stored on the server until someone does an “undo” or a workspace delete.   Here is the undo command: tf undo /workspace:TheirWorkspace;DOMAIN\TheirUserAccount $/path/to/file   Here...

On Monday, May 18th, Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 (Professional, Suite and Team Foundation Server) will be available to MSDN Subscribers through MSDN Subscriber Downloads and to the general public on Wednesday, May 20th through Microsoft Downloads. more details on Visual Studio 2010 Get the Datasheet Thanks...

If you were ever looking at some code and wondered who actually changed the line of text you were currently looking at, there is a way to do just that! It is called Annotations, and it is a visual tracking of the history of that file’s history in source control, along with any additional annotations...

One of the challenging aspects of working with TFS as your source control system is very unfortunately the installation of the client software. Over the past few years, I’ve been managing a number of small and large projects on CodePlex, and while the Subversion bridge has provided a much needed simple...

One of the challenging aspects of working with TFS as your source control system is very unfortunately the installation of the client software. Over the past few years, I’ve been managing a number of small and large projects on CodePlex, and while the Subversion bridge has provided a much needed simple...

When working in on a fresh Visual Studio 2008 SP1 install I needed to use TFS (as always) so I installed the TFS Team Explorer client from the TFS disk and I kept getting the following error whenever trying to view/edit Work Items: Could not load type 'Microsoft.TeamFoundaton.WorkItemTracking.Client...