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TFS merge conflicts dialog

When merging conflicts between branches in TFS, there is a dialog for mering multiple conflicts. When you select more conflicts and wish to take either the target branches version or the source version. The Dialog uses the terms Server and Local changes instead. The end result I keep refeering to

Source control folder anti-pattern

I ran into this issue at work today. Another team depends on my teams code to create customer specific solutions. Now they have an issue where they have to keep track of which versions are currently in use, and produce software for the different solutions. Now I have issues with

Rollback and undo checkin in TFS

I keep forgetting this option in the team system powertools [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/teamsystem/bb980963.aspx]. The rollback command undoes all change sets to a specific point, this is done by reverting the changes. That is it checks out the files and changes them to specified version, deletes

Independent trunk and MSBuild

A while back I posted a post about a concept I call the Independent trunk [https://www.morkeleb.com/2008/07/independent-trunk-manging-source.html]. The core concept is that everything required to build a distributable version of a software product is checked in under one branch in the source-control system. A

Safe import of .target files

We’ve changed most of our projects to import other .target files. This means that we get allot of warnings about unsafe imports. To eliminate these we can add a registry setting with the file name of the .targets file in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\MSBuild\

Multiple menus in Visual Studio 2008

Ever experienced having multiple entries of the same menu item in Visual Studio 2008? Well, I have. See what happens is that all of a sudden, usually related to an installation of a plug in or third party tool; my Visual Studio displays each item in my menus and toolbars

The independent trunk

The independent trunk Manging source control is a fundamental task in any software development environment. I do not claim to be anything of an expert in the area, but I have a theory for setting up the environment that Id like to share with others. Lacking a name for it

TFS Reports stoped working

I ran across a problem earlier today, our reports in TFS2008 hadn’t updated for 4 days. Turns out that the scheduling process for TFS had stoped without warning. If you run across this problem make sure that the “Visual Studio Team Foundation Server Task Scheduler” is running. This blog