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scanf() vs cin
It has been a while since the last time I wrote some C code, since I come from a C++ background,...
Author: Mohamed Mahmoud El-Geish Date: 03/29/2009
Cartoon #4: Super
base (C# Reference)
Author: Mohamed Mahmoud El-Geish Date: 03/26/2009
Cartoon #3: Partial
Partial Classes and Methods (C# Programming Guide)
Author: Mohamed Mahmoud El-Geish Date: 03/26/2009
Cartoon #2: Sealed
Sealed (C# Reference)
Author: Mohamed Mahmoud El-Geish Date: 03/25/2009
How to: Disable Multiple Check-out on a Folder?
There’s no direct way to do that. Multiple check-out is a property of a team project, it's not...
Author: Mohamed Mahmoud El-Geish Date: 03/24/2009
Cartoon #1: Shelve it!
Did I mention that I’m a cartoonist? As you can see I draw my cartoons using OneNote. I hope this...
Author: Mohamed Mahmoud El-Geish Date: 03/24/2009
How to: Find Distinct Changes by User?
You can find changesets if you open Source Control Explorer and hit Ctrl+G or choose Edit > Go...
Author: Mohamed Mahmoud El-Geish Date: 03/23/2009
How to: Include Missing Files in a Project?
In a previous post, the solution to that problem included manual intervention. There’s an easier...
Author: Mohamed Mahmoud El-Geish Date: 03/23/2009
Deny: Revisited
In a previous post, I talked about the deny option and how it’s evaluated. The documentation on MSDN...
Author: Mohamed Mahmoud El-Geish Date: 03/23/2009
!exploitable
!exploitable is a crash analyzer plug-in for windows debugger (windbg) that does post-mortem...
Author: Mohamed Mahmoud El-Geish Date: 03/23/2009
Merges
When you would like to know what changes have been merged already between a source and a target you...
Author: Mohamed Mahmoud El-Geish Date: 03/21/2009
How to: Find Source and Target Names for a Rename?
If you view the history of an item that was renamed, you will see an entry like this in the history...
Author: Mohamed Mahmoud El-Geish Date: 03/20/2009
Files are Missing from Solution Explorer
A customer was asking about this issue when he can see a certain file in source control explorer and...
Author: Mohamed Mahmoud El-Geish Date: 03/19/2009
Thoughts on Setting Permissions on Non-existent Items
Permissions in TFS are namespace based. The namespace doesn't have to exist to set a permission on....
Author: Mohamed Mahmoud El-Geish Date: 03/19/2009
TFS and HTTPS
Here’s a walkthrough to setup TFS with HTTPS. There are some tips that you may find useful: You may...
Author: Mohamed Mahmoud El-Geish Date: 03/19/2009
Deny
Some thoughts about permissions, especially deny. Why deny? Because deny is the best way to apply...
Author: Mohamed Mahmoud El-Geish Date: 03/18/2009
How to: Preview check-in conflicts?
When you check-in, TFS will warn you that you have conflicts and the check-in fails. However, you...
Author: Mohamed Mahmoud El-Geish Date: 03/17/2009
One or More Projects in the Solution Could not be Loaded
If you see this error: "One or more projects in the solution could not be loaded for the following...
Author: Mohamed Mahmoud El-Geish Date: 03/17/2009
How to: Change File Encoding?
While merging or comparing files using the DiffMerge tool, and files have different encoding, you...
Author: Mohamed Mahmoud El-Geish Date: 03/17/2009
How to: Merge Items that were not Branched?
This post is not about merging an existing item to an non-existing one, which will be a (merge,...
Author: Mohamed Mahmoud El-Geish Date: 03/17/2009
New keyboard shortcuts in Windows 7 Beta
For those who like the keyboard more than the mouse, here are some of the new keyboard shortcuts...
Author: Mohamed Mahmoud El-Geish Date: 03/15/2009
Conflicts
To understand conflict types please read this article on MSDN. In this post I’ll focus on conflicts...
Author: Mohamed Mahmoud El-Geish Date: 03/11/2009
Teamprise
Software houses use different development platforms to suit their needs, but it’s more convenient to...
Author: Mohamed Mahmoud El-Geish Date: 03/10/2009
How to: Enforce get latest before check-in?
One of our customers had this problem: developers on his team forget to get latest before check-in...
Author: Mohamed Mahmoud El-Geish Date: 03/10/2009
How to: Branch without getting any files?
If you want to save time and network bandwidth when creating a branch, you can use tf branch /noget...
Author: Mohamed Mahmoud El-Geish Date: 03/10/2009
How to: Clean TFS cache?
If your TFS client cache is corrupted, you might see this error:---------------------------Microsoft...
Author: Mohamed Mahmoud El-Geish Date: 03/09/2009
How to: Tell if files are identical using TFS APIs?
In a previous post, I answered this question using Diff APIs, which will require the items to be...
Author: Mohamed Mahmoud El-Geish Date: 03/09/2009
How to: Use tf merge /discard?
In a previous post, I mentioned some details about merge history bookkeeping. In a nutshell, when...
Author: Mohamed Mahmoud El-Geish Date: 03/09/2009
How to: Modify an existing changeset?
I’m glad you asked, searched, and eventually got here, because the answer is: you can’t! You can...
Author: Mohamed Mahmoud El-Geish Date: 03/08/2009
How to: Listen to TFS event notifications?
If you need to listen to TFS event notifications, you can subscribe to checkin event and make the...
Author: Mohamed Mahmoud El-Geish Date: 03/08/2009
How to: Diff files using TFS APIs?
You can use the Difference.DiffFiles method which compares two files using the internal diff engine,...
Author: Mohamed Mahmoud El-Geish Date: 03/08/2009
How to: Merge up to a specific version?
Merging is transferring changes from merge source to merge target, just like any transaction, it’s...
Author: Mohamed Mahmoud El-Geish Date: 03/07/2009
How to: Shrink TFS databases size?
You may try the following: Shrink SQL transaction log files using DBCC SHRINKFILE (see this KB)...
Author: Mohamed Mahmoud El-Geish Date: 03/03/2009
How to: Show last changed date for an item?
If you haven’t already done so, go ahead and install VS 2008 SP1 to show the last check-in date...
Author: Mohamed Mahmoud El-Geish Date: 03/01/2009
How to: Kill a process on the Team Foundation Server?
You can use the administration web service, if you have permission, to kill a process on the server....
Author: Mohamed Mahmoud El-Geish Date: 03/01/2009
How to: Sync files in different team projects when one of them is changed?
Here’s an interesting scenario, there are several files in several team projects that need to match...
Author: Mohamed Mahmoud El-Geish Date: 03/01/2009
History dialog vs tf history /i
Did you notice that when you show folder history in the history dialog you end up with more entries...
Author: Mohamed Mahmoud El-Geish Date: 03/01/2009
How to: Flush workspaces cache?
You may run this command: tf workspaces /s:yourTFS This will flush the cache for that server and...
Author: Mohamed Mahmoud El-Geish Date: 03/01/2009
How to: Port a specific changeset?
Merge enables you to specify a range of versions to merge over. This means that you can merge a...
Author: Mohamed Mahmoud El-Geish Date: 02/28/2009
How to: Find the latest version of an item?
for /f usebackq %i in (tf hist itemSpec /i /stopafter:1) do @if %i neq Changeset if %i neq...
Author: Mohamed Mahmoud El-Geish Date: 02/28/2009
Merge Change Type vs Merge, Branch Change Type
While merging merging branches, you may see change types like "merge" and "merge, branch". When you...
Author: Mohamed Mahmoud El-Geish Date: 02/28/2009
TFS 2008 SP1
Along with VS, VSTS, and .NET 3.5 SP1, TFS 2008 is here. Please read the details about SP1 in Brian...
Author: Mohamed Mahmoud El-Geish Date: 08/15/2008
TFS July 2008 Power Tools
TFS July Power Tools Released! The tools are available here: TFS July 2008 Power Tools. See...
Author: Mohamed Mahmoud El-Geish Date: 07/16/2008
Alerts Editor
This July, TFS Power Tools introduce new features, one of which is the Alerts Editor. You can read...
Author: Mohamed Mahmoud El-Geish Date: 07/09/2008
TFS Event Subscription Tool
You can subscribe to get email alerts when certain events occur in a Team Project using Project...
Author: Mohamed Mahmoud El-Geish Date: 06/30/2008
How to: Show deleted item in Source Control Explorer?
You can use the /deleted switch with tf dir to list deleted items along with existent items. To...
Author: Mohamed Mahmoud El-Geish Date: 06/25/2008
Using the /version argument
Whenever you need to specify the version for an item, you can use /version or /v. By default, it...
Author: Mohamed Mahmoud El-Geish Date: 05/22/2008
Not checked out and not read-only
To list files that are not checked out and not read-only, you can use tfpt online. The command is...
Author: Mohamed Mahmoud El-Geish Date: 04/30/2008
April's fool: BSOD screen saver
A nice harmless April's fool is to install BSOD screen saver, it looks so real and it can fake HDD...
Author: Mohamed Mahmoud El-Geish Date: 04/01/2008