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Converting VSS to TFS 2010

Converting VSS to TFS 2010 Beta 2 has some differences with the parallel process between VSS and TFS2005/8

• You will need an updated version of the VSSConverter

There is a small problem here, you will prefer the process to run at the Server to avoid communications overhead, in the other hand you want to install at TFS server the minimal set, that is the Team Explorer, but not the complete Visual Studio.

The VSS converter is not there under the installation path.

What I did was just take the required DLL’s (let say all of the vss* in that folder)  were copied from my client to the relevant folder  in TFS server.

• The HotFix for Visual Sourcesafe KB 950185, that can be downloaded from:

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Project/Download/FileDownload.aspx?ProjectName=KB950185&DownloadId=2204

• The connection to TFS

The new Default Collection and TFS name produce an error after mapping, in 2010 you need the collection just there

<TeamFoundationServer name="myserver" port="8080" protocol="http" collection="tfs/DefaultCollection"></TeamFoundationServer>

• The TFS target Project

There is a problem related to the target TFS project, you expect the VSSConverter to do the job but in fact you receive two possible errors, if you don’t create you got one, if you create you get other. The workaround is to create the project and inside the project create a folder (I did that under Work Item Template) and then add it to the mapping.