Some weeks ago I was asked for a proof of concept to design a TFS 2010 solution to fully (not less than 100%) automate a complex Dynamics CRM 2011 deployment for various environments (dev / test / staging / production). Many different…

Pieter Gheysens in Into ALM

Jan 11, 2011

Version Control with Team Foundation Server 2010

On February 15, I will do a Microsoft Live Webcast on “What you should know about Version Control in Team Foundation Server 2010”.

Unlike Visual SourceSafe (VSS), which relied on a file-based storage mechanism, Team…

Pieter Gheysens in Into ALM

Apr 17, 2010

The Gated Check-in build in TFS2010

Everybody should be already familiar with Continuous Integration or should I say Continuous Building? Automatically building a development codeline after a check-in is often not immediately followed by an integration action towards a main branch. I picked up the term…

Pieter Gheysens in Into ALM

Apr 1, 2010

Techdays Belgium 2010 — Session details

This year I presented a session at Techdays Belgium on Branching & Merging with Team Foundation Server 2010.

The session slides can be downloaded in the download section of this blog.

Pieter Gheysens in Into ALM

Nov 25, 2009

Deleted Team Projects still visible in Source Control Explorer

Today I bumped into a solution for deleting deleted Team Projects (yip, that’s right: deleting Team Projects that should have been already deleted). A while ago we noticed that Team Projects in TFS2008 SP1 that were…

Pieter Gheysens in Into ALM

Nov 11, 2009

TFS2010: Visualization of merging partial changes in changeset

Yesterday (during the Source Code Management session of Brian Harry at TechEd 2009 in Berlin), I noticed for the first time that merging partial changes in a changeset is also clearly visible afterwards. I just found some…

Pieter Gheysens in Into ALM

Nov 10, 2009

Branching in TFS2010: atomic operation without pending changes

Currently in TFS2008 when you create a new branch in your version control structure, all files are copied to your local worspace and marked as pending changes. This means that a branch in TFS2008 is not seen as an atomic…

Pieter Gheysens in Into ALM

Aug 24, 2009

Visual differences of changesets via command-line

Scenario : as a developer you want to manually view all the differences between the two last changesets without having to spend your time reviewing file after file in the UI differences window.

Go the command prompt and use the tf…

Pieter Gheysens in Into ALM

Apr 5, 2009

DYK #4 : unshelve with local pending changes

You might already have been in the situation where you wanted to unshelve a stored shelveset when having local changes to files that were also changed in the stored shelveset. Out-of-the-box with TFS 2008, this is not possible and you will get the…