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Like I promised I would share some additional information on some issues we ran into during the TAP program that currently are not fixed yet in the released version of TFS 2008.One of the issues we ran into was the fact that one of our development teams got quite confused when the team explorer showed that sources where checked out by someone else ...

During some work we did with B2 ORCAS last week we encountered some confusion with the new option called Folder Diff. This is one of the features from the TFS power tools that made it into the ORCAS product along with the annotate feature. While I was working on this feature to test the various options, I got quite confused with the reconcile ...

This weekend we worked day and nights to do the migration of our Production TFS servers to Beta 2 of TFS ORCAS. And we can tell that it was a success! The upgrade is compared to the "old" install procedures really a breeze. The upgrade guide for you from a V1 TFS server is nothing more than the following steps:Upgrading a Visual Studio ...

First of all I want to make very clear that we hit this bug, but the chance you will hit it as well is very small. You can only run into this issue when you have a fake or customized build as we have. Let me explain what we ran into and when that could affect your installation as well.During our upgrade process last night and today we got ...

At info support we participate in the so called Techncal Adoption Program(TAP) for Visual Studio Team System ORCAS. This is where we work closely with Microsoft with the latest available bits on ORCAS and provide early feedback. With our software factory Endeavour we have a software product that closely integrates with Team Foundation server. ...

The past few weeks have been pretty busy for me. Not only was I working with some colleagues on a Robot challenge (where we finished third J, see here a movie with Woody in action  , and the post of my coleague Erik) , I also had to prepare for 3 sessions for the DevDays here in the Netherlands.At my session on "Practical Team ...

Today I converted some of the projects I am working on to the BETA 1 version of ORCAS. (Yes you need to convert the projects again, for some reason the file format is changed againL) After overcoming this first hurdle, I wanted to run my unit tests as I normally do on my project using the Test View. There I got a second warning that my test files ...