Archive | September, 2012

Audit Trail on TFS Source Control.

September 20, 2012 by Rene van Osnabrugge 1 Comment

Today I got the question if I could see when a person did a Get Latest Version on TFS Source Control. Check-ins are easily found in the Source Control History but Get Latest Versions are not in the history. After some searching I found the tbl_Command in the TFS Collection Database.This contains all actions that […]

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Reparent of a TFS Source Controlled Branch. Why and How !

September 19, 2012 by Rene van Osnabrugge 13 Comments

When I first looked at the Source Control Explorer in TFS 2012, the thing I noticed first was the introduction of the “Reparent” Menu option in the context menu. I know that this is not new, It was there in Visual Studio 2010 as well only it was hidden away deep down in the file […]

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‘Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Client.IProjectFile’ is obsolete

September 5, 2012 by Rene van Osnabrugge Comments Off on ‘Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Client.IProjectFile’ is obsolete

For my customer I was implementing some advanced BuildNumbering mechanism (Here can you find a good post about this). Because it was important that the stuff worked, I wrote some Unit Tests. I usually do that and need IBuildDetail. Jim Lamb has a great post about how to stub The IBuild…interfaces when you create your […]

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Build, TFS API, Troubleshooting
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TFS Source Control 2012–Workspaces Part 2

September 3, 2012 by Rene van Osnabrugge 5 Comments

As promised in my previous post, in this post I will tell a little bit more about workspaces. When creating a new workspace (and I explained why you need to do that in my previous post) or editing an existing one, the dialog pops up. In 2012 it shows a small one. Press the “Advanced” […]

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