Stuck with Vista?

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If, like me, you are stuck with the old and decrepit version of Windows that is Vista SP1 at work then you may be interested in Service Pack 2 which became available on the MS Download site today. Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 and Windows Vista Service Pack 2 – Five Language Standalone (KB948465) […]

Connecting VS2008 to any TFS2010 Project Collection

Easy peasy, all you need is the full URL from the project collection and you will be able to connect directly to it as if it was a different Team Server. This functionality was added with Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1, so if you don’t have SP1 installed yet you had better get it: […]

Upgrading to TFS 2010 Beta 1 and SQL Collation

I have just finished installing TFS 2010 beta 1 and doing an upgrade of out TFS 2008 data. This did not go well… Due to a collation mismatch between my original SQL Server 2005 and my new SQL Server 2008 I received an error when upgrading… [Error  @13:57:23.665] TF255184: An error occurred during operation.  Message=Cannot […]