A quick hint for people who plan to use TFS for version control but can't migrate their web projects off of ASP.NET 1.1 and Visual Studio 2003 just yet: the Solution User Options file, which is typically hidden and ignored, contains some valuable mapping information for version control. If you used the...

The first time I Installed Team System, it took about a day. I had to learn all this stuff the hard way, and the docs were just too darn "wordy". So I made a small log file of what I had to do before I could install Team System, and what I went through while I was installing it. Turns out, if you know...

The first time I Installed Team System, it took about a day. I had to learn all this stuff the hard way, and the docs were just too darn "wordy". So I made a small log file of what I had to do before I could install Team System, and what I went through while I was installing it. Turns out, if you know...

The first time I Installed Team System, it took about a day. I had to learn all this stuff, and the docs were just too darn "wordy". So I made a small log file of what I had to do before I could install Team System, and what I went through while I was installing it.Turns out, if you know what's going...

When I first found out about MSBuild SideKick , I was excited. I thought that finally there's a slim chance that I won't have to edit dreaded XML files, and instead use a point and click interface, like god intended. I even pointed to Matan's Blog , which is one of the guys behind this tool so you can...

Update : Downloading the latest version of hte Sidekick tool fixes the problem mentioned here. See this comment from Matan: "Please download the latest version of the MSBuild Sidekick - that should take care of the non-MSBuild parts not being saved problem. We've released a patch for it less than a day...

To Skip this Intro, read the full article here: A Simple Version Control Strategy Using Team System I was recently asked by a client who I'm helping to integrate Team System, to create a strategy for the organization and future projects for managing multiple versions of applications and code - A version...

To Skip this Intro, read the full article here: A Simple Version Control Strategy Using Team System I was recently asked by a client who I'm helping to integrate Team System, to create a strategy for the organization and future projects for managing multiple versions of applications and code - A version...

Parts of this article are compiled from http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnvs05/html/vs05teamsys.asp?frame=true Update : Added questions about sstoring third party components, sharing project output internally and branching compared to Subversion. I was recently asked by a client who I'm helping...

Matan Holtzer is one of the guys behind the new MSBuild SideKick , which is essentialy a visual editor for editing MSBuild and Team Build files instead of editing raw XML (and a tool like this comes out only now??). His blog will focus, among other things on SideKick, so if you have any complaints like...