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Just a tip: to teg a list of checkout for all users, navigate to the root folder of the directory tree you want to check in your workspace using a Visual Studio command prompt. Then use the TF tool with the following command line: "tf status /user:* .\* /recursive" When the ".\* /recursive" is left out, it will provide you ...

In VSS 2005, we've got al cool new dialogs and icons.. however, some functionality appears to be missing. When you now choose to add files, you can only add single files. A small tip: when you hold shift and then click the button on the toolbar for adding files, you will get the 'old' dialog, and so be able to check in complete ...

I just created a feedburner feed, to get some stats on usage etc. But I don't want to edit the standard templates (mostly because I currently do not have acces to them). So how to change my rss feed link to poin to feedburner? Well in this case I took the DHTML way out. It won't help for existing subscription, but will work for new ones. Here's ...

I had Vista installed in a dual boot configuration when I decided to install a newer build of Vista. (Going from beta to to build 5472) However, because of bad experiences by others, I wanted to do a clean reinstall. The drive containing Vista also contained other files, so I did not want to format the Vista drive. So I thought I would simply go ...

By using cloaking, you can make your Team Foundation Source Control workspace more efficient, by only getting what you actually need. I've written a small article about how to do it. Read it here.

MSBuild only builds Xml files that follow the MSBuild standards. However, there is a special case for solutions, because you can just build solutions using MSBuild, although this is not an MSBuild format. MSBuild supports this by first generating an in-memory MSBuild file (called a traversal project) that will build all projects included in the ...

My colleague wouter spotted this new feature in the .NET 2.0 framework. This attribute gives you the ability to do an Animal Farm trick.. all assemblies are equal, but some assemblies are more equal in the fact that they are allowed to access your internal stuff. This solves a problem we've had with unittesting. Because we always use a separate ...

After having a new TFS image set up and trying to a get a Team Build to run, I got the following strange error: TF42046: The build service used in the build process is not reachable.  This error occurs when either the build machine is off-line,the required service is not running, Team Build is not installed on the build machine, Team Build ...

As we found out today, the default settings for Visual Studio 2005 Professional are to not show the solution by default. This means that as soon as you add a project to a blank solution, the solution disappears and you are unable to add another project. This is easy to fix though: Make sure that you have the option to ''Always show solution'' ...

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