Archive for the ‘Team Foundation Server’

  • Migrating TFS 2005 projects to TFS 2008 system
    Is there is a solution for importing existing projects from TFS 2005 server to a new TFS 2008 instance? Yes and this solution is without upgrading original TFS 2005 server to 2008. Solution: While installing TFS 2008 on new server, when wizard prompts you to input SQL server instance for storing data, you can point to database containing TFS 2005 data, this would cause...
    by Nauman at April 8th, 2010 at 05:04 am
  • TFS Migration Guidance Document
    Team Foundation Server (TFS) product group and the Team System Rangers started a project on CodePlex called TFS Integration Platform, to facilitate the development of tools that integrate TFS with other systems. Currently, this tool allow to enable TFS to integrate with other version control and work-item/bug tracking systems, but the eventual goal of this project is to...
    by Nauman at November 21st, 2009 at 11:11 am
  • How to list checked out files — TFS 2008
    What is the procedure to list all the files checked out from team foundation server for a particular project? Also needs to traverse directories and sub directories for listing all files that are checked out. There is a simple solution for this issue, provided through a command line tool of VS 2008. Open Visual Studio command prompt and use tf.exe application. All checked...
    by Nauman at November 18th, 2009 at 09:11 am
  • TFS Credentails
    I was trying to connect to a TFS server in another domain, but without success. I could connect to the TFS web services through FireFox after providing the correct credentials, but Visual Studio was simply failing with a TF31002: Unable to connect to this Team foundation Server: tfs.               Click OK and the moment of truth… ...
    by Nauman at November 1st, 2009 at 09:11 am
  • How to Upgrade to the Full Version of Team Foundation Server
    Overall I’ve had good first impressions of Team Foundation Server, which I installed and configured for a client. We installed TFS Workgroup Edition to get started and later wanted to upgrade to the full version, which the client acquired through volume licensing. Upgrading from Workgroup (or Trial) Edition to the full version using a volume license key (VLK) is...
    by Nauman at November 1st, 2009 at 09:11 am