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...

Author: Matthew Mitrik (MS) 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...

Author: Matthew Mitrik (MS) 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...

Author: Matthew Mitrik (MS) 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...

Author: Matthew Mitrik (MS) 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...

Author: Matthew Mitrik (MS) Date: 12/03/2010

Over the weekend, our team released the first fully supported version of the Team Foundation Server...

Author: Matthew Mitrik (MS) 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...

Author: Matthew Mitrik (MS) 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...

Author: Matthew Mitrik (MS) 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...

Author: Matthew Mitrik (MS) 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...

Author: Matthew Mitrik (MS) 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...

Author: Matthew Mitrik (MS) 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...

Author: Matthew Mitrik (MS) 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...

Author: Matthew Mitrik (MS) 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...

Author: Matthew Mitrik (MS) 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...

Author: Matthew Mitrik (MS) 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...

Author: Matthew Mitrik (MS) 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...

Author: Matthew Mitrik (MS) 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...

Author: Matthew Mitrik (MS) 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...

Author: Matthew Mitrik (MS) 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. ...

Author: Matthew Mitrik (MS) Date: 01/25/2010

Dogfooding the TFS Integration Platform

Late last night, we published updates to the TFS Integration Platform on CodePlex.  In addition...

Author: Matthew Mitrik (MS) 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...

Author: Matthew Mitrik (MS) 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...

Author: Matthew Mitrik (MS) 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...

Author: Matthew Mitrik (MS) 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...

Author: Matthew Mitrik (MS) 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...

Author: Matthew Mitrik (MS) 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...

Author: Matthew Mitrik (MS) 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...

Author: Matthew Mitrik (MS) 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...

Author: Matthew Mitrik (MS) Date: 06/15/2009

Migration Tools Community

Something that I’m currently working on is trying to better understand the interest our partners and...

Author: Matthew Mitrik (MS) Date: 06/12/2009

Branch Hierarchy Visualization

One of the new branch visualizations we’ve added allows users to see the hierarchical relationship...

Author: Matthew Mitrik (MS) Date: 06/11/2009

First Class Branches

Introducing the concept of “first class branches” is a significant part of the 2010 release for...

Author: Matthew Mitrik (MS) 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...

Author: Matthew Mitrik (MS) 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...

Author: Matthew Mitrik (MS) 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...

Author: Matthew Mitrik (MS) 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...

Author: Matthew Mitrik (MS) 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,...

Author: Matthew Mitrik (MS) 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...

Author: Matthew Mitrik (MS) 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...

Author: Matthew Mitrik (MS) 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...

Author: Matthew Mitrik (MS) 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...

Author: Matthew Mitrik (MS) Date: 03/25/2009