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Source control system for binary files

At work we have a legacy system written in Visual FoxPRO. Everything in foxpro is a table, even forms, so basically if you open a form file with a text editor you don't learn much. Does anyone know ...
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TFS SQL Deployment Data Script

We are using TFS and SQL Server 2005 (looking to upgrade to SQL Server 2012 if that makes a difference). We store our database schema in a Visual Studio Database project (VS 2010). When code is ...
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How do I structure code and builds for continuous delivery of multiple applications in a small team?

Background: 3-5 developers supporting (and building new) internal applications for a non-software company. We use TFS although I don't think that matters much for my question. I want to be able to ...
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Can an open source solution match or surpass Team Foundation Server's features? [closed]

Team Foundation Server offers a version control system, but with many more side features, such as bug tracking, user stories, project planning, and it is all integrated into visual studio. Someone ...
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version control security

We are looking for a version control tool. I personally think it's pretty cool to use Git. However, my boss recommends TFS. He told me it's much more secure to use an SQL Sever based tool, such as TFS ...
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What is the preferred tool/approach to putting a SQL Server database under source control?

I've evaluated RedGate SQL Source Control tool (http://www.red-gate.com/products/sql-development/sql-source-control/), and I believe that Team Foundation Server 2010 offers a way to do this as well ...
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Should we check in Setup Project of Visual Studio

From what I understand, the ideal way to prepare builds using Visual Studio is to use a single build machine. That means, while the developers go through development process using their respective ...
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Strategy for maintaining assembly references in TFS

I have a 3 branch setup: Dev, QA, Prod. There is a references folder where we store common 3rd party and internal assemblies. Change mgmnt has been challenging. Sometimes Devs forget to go into ...
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Source Control: Roles and Responsibilities - Best Practices

I'm looking for "Best Practices" concerning roles and responsibilities, specifically who is responsible for merges from development branches to trunk (or main). Basically I'm looking for ammunition to ...
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Choosing the right branching strategy for releases

Starting with a new dev team on a new project and we have to define our Branching strategy for our source repository (e.g. Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2010). We've run into a sticky discussion ...
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Why is local copy writable by default in SVN, but readonly in Perforce/TFS?

I have some experience with Perforce, SVN, and TFS. For SVN, The source files were by default writable after synchronization. However, they were readonly for Perforce, as well as TFS if memory served ...
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What's the best way to handle multiple simultaneous “streams” of development in version control?

My department is planning on working on our next several releases (spanning a year) simultaneously. The powers that be are advocating we support this by refactoring all affected code into classes ...
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How can I convince cowboy programmers to use source control?

UPDATE I work on a small team of devs, 4 guys. They have all used source control. Most of them can't stand source control and instead choose not to use it. I strongly believe source control is a ...
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Team Foundation Server - Hosting

Does anyone have any experience with companies offering Team Foundation Server hosting services? Of course, we're looking for a company that is, first and foremost, reliable and solid. Cost is ...
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proper comments for source control log [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: What is your typical source control commit comment? What are suitable comments to put in the source control log? To me this seems a similar problem (but possibly more ...
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From TFS to Git

I'm a .NET developer and I've used TFS (team foundation server) as my source control software many times. Good features of TFS are: Good integration with Visual Studio (so I do almost everything ...
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How do you avoid working on the wrong branch?

Being only a little careful is usually enough, but sometimes I need to double check the branch I'm working on (e.g "hm..i'm on dev branch, right?") and I check the source control path of a random ...
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How can I keep my visualstudio database project in sync with my database?

I'd like to have my database schema synchronized with my Visual Studio .dbproj database project. Right now, I'm using SSMS for most of my database development work, and I've to manually use the ...
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Visual Studio 2010 - Local File History

I have been using netbeans for many years now and recently I have moved from PHP/Git/Netbeans to C#/TFS/VS10. It has been very good so far, yet I miss this one little feature I enjoyed so much in ...
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Team Foundation Server - Deployments

We currently have 5 developers working on quite large Silverlight application. We have 3 servers: Test User acceptance server Production Each person works on something completely different and ...
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1answer
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Best practices for backing out a feature from a QA trunk

I have a question regarding source control in a general sense and specific to TFS. Let's say you have a three-tier system (Development branches, QA main trunk and Production branch). At a certain ...
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The need for source control software - Team Foundation Server? or something different?

Recently, Here at the company, more than one programmer was appointed in charge for a LightSwitch(C#) software development project and immediately there was a need of some sort of source ...
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Branching model suggestion for same project multiple clients

We have a very big project that includes several applications that acts as the base for different clients. Every client has its own personalization of the product, different milestones, different ...
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Resources for using TFS for Agile Project Development?

Our company just installed TFS for us to start using for project development processes and source control. They want us to start using it to manage our projects as well. We have a small team, no ...
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Should a developer always use version control [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Version control for independent developers? I've heard statements to the effect of: "Well it's just me working on this project so I don't need to put it under source ...
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How do you structure your branches in TFS

I'm not sure if i should ask this question here, or on SO ... i'll cross post it to SO if this is the wrong place. My group at work has been trying to come up with a good process that we can use with ...