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Visual Source Safe Upgrade Tool for Team Foundation Server

If for some reason you or your company is still using VSS it’s time to move forward! Team Foundation server supports VSS Migration, until today there were a command line tool allowing you to migrate VSS repository to TFS Source Control – this tool is called – VSSConverter. VSSConverter command line tool requires configuration file that need manual authoring, but no More! Microsoft has announce a new wizard based UI tool for upgrading VSS repositories to Team Foundation Server 2012/2010. Open the...

DOS (8.3) short path issue in VSSConverter

DOS ( 8.3 ) short path issue in VSSConverter Enable a feature on the Application Tier server that makes Visual Server 2008 Team Foundation Server allow the MS-DOS-compatible short name format. To do this, follow these steps: 1.Make sure that you have Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server Service Pack 1 installed. 2.On the Application Tier server, locate the following folder: Installation folder\web services\version control 3.In Notepad, open the Web.config file. 4.Under the < configuration...

How To integrated use of Team Foundation Version Control with products that do not support Team Explorer integration

Team Foundation Server MSSCCI Provider The Team Foundation Server MSSCCI Provider enables integrated use of Team Foundation Version Control with products that do not support Team Explorer integration. List Of Products: Visual Studio .NET 2003 Visual C++ 6 SP6 Visual Visual Basic 6 SP6 Visual FoxPro 9 SP1 Microsoft Access 2003 SP2 SQL Server Management Studio Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect 6.1 Sybase PowerBuilder 10.5 Toad for SQL Server 2.0 Download - Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server MSSCCI...

Migrating from SourceSafe to Team Foundation Server

Migrating from SourceSafe to Team Foundation Server Looking to migrate your existing Visual Source Safe (VSS) projects to MS Team Foundation Server (TFS)? There is a lot of tutorials for VSS 2 TFS migration. In this post I’ll just let you some tips before you start the migration. Thankfully, there are a number of options available, should you plan to do a “straight” migration (meaning, take what you have in VSS and replicate it in TFS). Migrating to TFS, however, does present an opportunity to evaluate...