In case you haven't seen this news from last Friday, the TFS Beta 2 Virtual PC images have an operating system timebomb in them that is set to expire on 1 November 2007.  This is not, however, the end of the world if you have been using these builds for demo or test purposes, though if you've got them in anything close to a production mode ...

As part of my automated build and test process, I wanted to be able to confirm that my third party components were the proper version and, more importantly, that they were fully licensed.  For some components, I can create a new instance of the control or component and test its IsLicensed property.  For others, the assembly itself is ...

So I desperately needed to rollback the deletion of six source code files, which, by the way, were asp.net custom control classes. See previous post. The simple solution, right click on the files and select Rollback, Revert, or some other command. Okay, so maybe the command is nested somewhere below that point in the command hierarchy. Or NOT! ...

I can't believe it. How stupid is Microsoft? I swear. They ship a supposed rock-solid server-based source control system and don't provide a rollback feature? I didn't discover this until today when I inadvertantly deleted some source files. So I'm rooting around for an hour trying to figure out how to restore the files from ...

We had a problem recently where one of out developers (a summer intern) left with some files checked out of the Team System Source Control system. Turns out there is no way through Visual Studio 2005 to un-checkout a file. However, there is a command line tool tf you can use to accomplish this and a number of other things. I found a couple of ...