Matt Mitrik
Program Manager | TFS | Version Control | Migration
Source Control Explorer Extension
I came across a very cool extension for Source Control Explorer today, and thought it was worth...
Date: 10/05/2011
Professional Team Foundation Server 2010
This week I received my copy of one of the latest books on TFS: Professional Team Foundation Server...
Date: 05/11/2011
TFS Guide for SVN users
Ed Hintz just posted a great guide for former SVN users that are moving to TFS. He covers a...
Date: 01/19/2011
Customizing Check-in Actions in your Process Template
In my last post, I told users about a client side hack that we added to change the default check-in...
Date: 12/20/2010
How To: Make “Associate” the default action for work items
I’ve heard this one a lot lately from many people, so I felt it was time to share more...
Date: 12/03/2010
TFS Integration Tools Released on Visual Studio Gallery
Over the weekend, our team released the first fully supported version of the Team Foundation Server...
Date: 08/09/2010
Tips when creating a workspace
I’ve been working with our content team to help publish some guidance on MSDN around using...
Date: 07/20/2010
How do I find the history for a renamed folder in TFS 2010?
I came across this question while responding to some customer suggestions, so I thought I should...
Date: 07/02/2010
Version Control 2010 Upgrade Hotfix Published
Recently, I blogged about an issue in the TFS 2010 upgrade that affected the contents of labels and...
Date: 06/17/2010
Version Control Upgrade KB Article Published
Today we published a KB article for a recently discovered issue when upgrading from TFS 2005/2008 to...
Date: 06/04/2010
TFS 2010 File Corruption KB Article Published
Recently, we published a KB article that is related to files being downloaded from version control...
Date: 05/26/2010
TFS 2010 backwards compatibility known issue: Possible null reference when setting source control permissions
We recently found an issue in the Team Explorer 2010 client while performing backwards compatibility...
Date: 03/12/2010
Branching by Label in TFS 2010
Several people have noticed that in TFS 2010 the option to branch by label in the UI is no longer...
Date: 02/18/2010
Upgrade vs. Migration: TFS Integration Platform
This is the seventh blog post in a series about Upgrade and Migration for TFS. In some migration...
Date: 02/08/2010
Upgrade vs. Migration: Tip Migration
This is the sixth blog post in a series about Upgrade and Migration for TFS. Thus far, all of the...
Date: 02/04/2010
Upgrade vs. Migration: Team Project Move
This is the fifth blog post in a series about Upgrade and Migration for TFS. A common migration...
Date: 02/02/2010
Upgrade vs. Migration: Server Move
This is the fourth blog post in a series about Upgrade and Migration for TFS. There are some...
Date: 02/01/2010
Upgrade vs. Migration: Server Consolidation During Upgrade
This is the third blog post in a series about Upgrade and Migration for TFS. Sometimes, customers...
Date: 01/29/2010
Upgrade vs. Migration: Upgrading to a Newer Version of TFS
This is the second blog post in a series about Upgrade and Migration for TFS. One of the most common...
Date: 01/26/2010
Upgrade vs. Migration: Definitions
Being the Migration PM for the TFS team, I get a lot of “migration” questions from users. ...
Date: 01/25/2010
Dogfooding the TFS Integration Platform
Late last night, we published updates to the TFS Integration Platform on CodePlex. In addition...
Date: 12/18/2009
New Forum on MSDN
For a long time, we have had no home for questions related to migration offerings such as the VSS...
Date: 11/17/2009
TFS Integration Platform Alpha Released on CodePlex
Today, we released the Alpha version of the TFS Integration Platform on CodePlex. For all of...
Date: 11/11/2009
New Branch and Merge Permissions
In a previous blog post about the new First Class Branches that we have added in TFS 2010, I...
Date: 11/10/2009
Using VSS Converter in TFS 2010 Beta 2
TFS 2010 Beta 2 has been out for a few days now, and I’ve heard of quite a few users hitting errors...
Date: 10/29/2009
Forward Compatibility Release for Team Explorer 2008
Today, as you have probably heard by now, was the public release of TFS 2010 Beta 2. We’ve got...
Date: 10/19/2009
Keyword Expansion Check-in Policy on CodePlex
One feature we often hear requests for in TFS version control is the ability to support keyword...
Date: 08/10/2009
New Migration and Integration Solutions Page on MSDN
Today we launched a new page on MSDN that will serve as the central hub for all things related to...
Date: 07/10/2009
Bi-directional SVN to TFS Tool Available
One of our partners, Persistent Systems, just released a tool to migrate data from Subversion to...
Date: 06/15/2009
Migration Tools Community
Something that I’m currently working on is trying to better understand the interest our partners and...
Date: 06/12/2009
Branch Hierarchy Visualization
One of the new branch visualizations we’ve added allows users to see the hierarchical relationship...
Date: 06/11/2009
First Class Branches
Introducing the concept of “first class branches” is a significant part of the 2010 release for...
Date: 06/08/2009
What’s new in Version Control in TFS 2010?
Something I’ve been waiting to do is to blog about all of the great features we have added to...
Date: 06/01/2009
Changing to Slot Mode in TFS 2010 Version Control
In TFS 2010, one of the more significant changes that we made to our version control platform was...
Date: 05/28/2009
CSS Blog Post on Partial Merges
Ladislau Szomoru, a CSS Engineer for TFS, just posted a great blog post about partial merges on the...
Date: 05/04/2009
How To: Unlock/Undo a File that is Locked/Checked out
As the number of TFS users grows inside MS, rarely does a day go by where I don’t get forwarded a...
Date: 04/23/2009
Configure Diff to Show Whitespace
Back in TFS 2005, if you used the Compare command to compare the contents of two source files,...
Date: 04/20/2009
Using SharePoint Blog Sites for Team Collaboration
About a year and a half ago, Mario Rodriguez and I were looking for an idea to help consolidate all...
Date: 04/06/2009
Mainframe Express Integration with TFS MSSCCI Provider
For teams using IDEs other than Visual Studio, the TFS MSSCCI Provider is the standard integration...
Date: 03/31/2009
SVN to TFS Tool Available from Timely Migration
Last week, the folks over at Timely Migration released a new migration tool to enable migration from...
Date: 03/25/2009
Determining the Right Blog Scope
Shortly after joining MS, I decided that I should create a blog to share information with the world...
Date: 03/25/2009