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Thursday, January 26, 2006 11:00 PM

Team Foundation "Workgroup Edition" - no actual restriction to workgroup users!

This came up in a forums thread , so I figured it was worth a blog post just to add another search engine hit for it since it is a confusing naming choice, and hopefully this will help clarify what "Workgroup Edition" really means (short answer: read
Posted by jmanning | 1 Comments
Thursday, January 26, 2006 10:49 PM

what to do when someone takes a file hostage with a lock in their workspace

I noticed this blog post tonight and was trying to add the below as a comment to it - I've tried submitting it 3 times and it doesn't seem to work (no error message, just the post back gives the same form with the same contents as I just posted), so I'm
Posted by jmanning | 7 Comments
Saturday, January 21, 2006 8:51 PM

Sample checkin policy: make sure the comment isn't empty

I'm not actually the original author, but it seems pretty useful so I thought I'd pass it along - you'll need a reference to Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl.Client.dll, of course, which should be in your GAC if you have the Team Explorer bits
Posted by jmanning | 25 Comments
Thursday, January 19, 2006 9:23 AM

What are these :N (:1, :2, etc.) entities in my permissions?

In this thread on the forums some users are seeing permissions on their team project folders that include the expected groups, but the groups have :N (:1, :2, etc.) after their names. What's going on here? One of the things we do in Team Foundation Version
Posted by jmanning | 0 Comments
Monday, January 09, 2006 4:11 PM

How to make it so "tf resolve" only displays the dialog if there are conflicts?

One of the changes we've made to the resolve dialog is that it comes up immediately when requested. We don't query the server before bringing up that dialog. This has the nice effect that you get the dialog up immediately and get good feedback of what's
Posted by jmanning | 0 Comments
Monday, January 09, 2006 1:53 PM

Code snippet: How to convert an account (DOMAIN\user) to its friendly name?

One of the changes we made post-Beta3 that you may have heard about in the forums is that our Work Item Tracking will default to using friendly display names instead of accounts (for instance, "James Manning" instead of "NORTHAMERICA\jmanning"). Since
Posted by jmanning | 3 Comments
Monday, January 09, 2006 10:28 AM

Code snippet: What are my effective permissions {globally, to an item}?

One of the things we expose through the object model but we don't expose through the command line is querying the effective permissions you have, either for global permissions (for instance, CreateWorkspace) or to a specific item (for instance, Read,
Posted by jmanning | 2 Comments
Friday, January 06, 2006 2:05 PM

Code snippet: What account does Team Foundation see me authenticated as?

Brian posted this snippet in the forums (needs to reference Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client.dll, should be in the GAC on installed clients) to use the properties off the TeamFoundationServer instance to show which account and friendly name Team Foundation
Posted by jmanning | 0 Comments
 
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