Yes. In order to do this you will need to buy Visual Studio Team Foundation Server and a Client Access License for proper communication with the server. Team Explorer, which is included with Team Foundation Server, is a stand alone client that uses the Visual Studio 2005 shell providing a UI for source control, work item tracking and all the other features. For more information on licensing Visual Studio Team System (including Team Foundation Server) see the Team System Licensing White Paper.

The Team Foundation Visual SourceSafe converter tool transfers files, folders, version history, and user information from a Visual SourceSafe database to Team Foundation source control. Read more.

I have code snippets that I use often. How can I manage them so I can easily used them? In Visual Studio, you can store commonly used code snippets on a tab (other than the Clipboard ring) in your Toolbox. You use drag and drop techniques to move the...

No. While Visual Studio makes deploying "ClickOnce" applications simple, there are several other ways to deploy "ClickOnce" applications. The .NET Framework SDK includes a tool named MAGE(Manifest Editor & Generator) that provides both a UI (mageui...

Our goal is to easily support up to 500 users with a single installation of Team Foundation Server. We are actively using ('dogfooding' in Microsoft-speak) Team Foundation Server in our own development teams. Please see John Lawrence's blog post: Latest Team System Dogfood Statistcs for details about this effort.

While there is no converter available from Microsoft that will migrate source code from CVS or Subversion, ComponentSoftware (not affiliated with Microsoft) is offering CS-Converter for evaluation. From their press release: CS-Converter is a powerful and reliable conversion tool, used to migrate from various legacy version control systems (such as RCS, CVS, Subversion and Visual SourceSafe) to Microsoft Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) system.

Blue Ink was designed to work with Microsoft Visual Studio. Blue Ink's default set of templates output .sln and .proj files so you can immediately open and work with a generated solution using Microsoft Visual Studio. Yes, in most respects Blue Ink generated solutions are no different than manually coded solutions. Blue Ink generated solutions integrate fully with source control applications such as Microsoft SourceSafe either through Microsoft Visual Studio or externally.

No. QuickAdmin is a standard .NET control, so just needs to be referenced when compiling your C# code.

No. We get a lot of requests for this but our contention is that the person defining the policy can't envision the situations that will arise where policy will need to be overridden. Thus, we designed it to be fully auditable by including policy compliance data in the changeset details and in the checkin mail that is delivered, but left it up to the developer to determine whether they have a good reason for overriding.

Unfortunately not, since the Visual Studio Express Edition has a limited support for extensibility that does not match the tight integration needs of Mainsoft for Java EE. You need to install Visual Studio Standard or Professional Edition to use Mainsoft for Java EE.

Team Foundation Version control does not support the promotion model using sharing and pinning. Instead, we use branching and merging as the features that drive our promotion modeling. For a more detailed visual explanation please see the TechEd 2005 presentation made by Doug Neumann.

You certainly can use another source control or work item tracking systems in place of Team Foundation's corresponding features. In some cases, you may find that the integration between a third party tool and the other Team Foundation features is not as rich as with a full Team Foundation environment. We are actively encouraging other tool vendors to leverage the integration and extensibility features of Team Foundation to bridge this gap.

Use our Mono Migration Analysis tool to check if everything that your application uses has been implemented in Mono or if there are special considerations to keep in mind. The Mono API today is somewhere in between .NET 1.1 and .NET 2.0, see our Roadmap for details about what is implemented.

The service has been tested with a C# client auto-generated from WSDL by the wsdl.exe tool. It should work fine from any .NET language.

Use the ToolboxItem attribute set to false on your component or control class. This will prevent it from appearing in the Toolbox. [ ToolboxItem( false ) ] public class MyComponent : Component{..} Contributed from George Shepherd's Windows Forms FAQ

Assuming that you have successfully installed C-Sharpener For VB, the menu option should automatically appear. If it doesn't appear, then try the following: Turn on the checkbox to the left of C-Sharpener For VB and click the OK button. The menu option should now appear.

While there is a growing set of commercial and open source tools for Java EE development, these tools are designed for Java?savvy developers. If you have invested a lot of time into becoming an expert in Visual Studio development, the .NET languages (C# or VB) and the .NET Framework (ASP.NET, ADO.NET, etc.), we believe Mainsoft for Java EE can be your most productive Java EE development tool. No. You can continue using Visual Studio to create Windows applications as you always have.

Before you begin, note that Cygwin is licensed under the GNU GPL (as indeed are all other Cygwin-based libraries). That means that if your code links against the cygwin dll (and if your program is calling functions from Cygwin, it must, as a matter of fact, be linked against it), you must apply the GPL to your source as well. Of course, this only matters if you plan to distribute your program in binary form. For more information, see http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html.