Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Dubbelbock TFS

I have gone on record and said before that TFS Source Control is a great step up from VSS, however I’d never want to be constrained to the IDE for my SCC tasks. Granted, IDE integration is a nice feature, but it shouldn’t be your sole interface.

This is part of the reason that I love Subversion. It has builtin command line support for the freaks out there (like me) who like to type. TortoiseSVN gives us explorer integration, which is solid gold. Then there’s AnkhSVN for the IDE integration. See a pattern here?

So I just stumbled on a new TFS Source Control explorer plugin tool with a funny name. It’s called Dubbelbock TFS and it was written by a friend of mine, Ben Day.

This is the kind of tool that will help bring the power of TFS source control out of the IDE and enable a much more usable and powerful experience.

So go out and buy a copy, it’s only $25 (I think). And tell Ben I sent you.

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Tuesday, May 22, 2007 9:31:48 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)

Subversion rules. IMHO, there is nothing superior. AnkhSVN...not so great for me but a valiant effort no doubt. I have to say that I use svn to version just about everything; source code being just one. But apparently "the VSS way" has a strong grip on some people. Recently, I have tried to extoll the virtues of Subversion on several colleagues and I get the feeling that they just don't quite believe me when I say that conflicts are rare and the merging is great and (insert all the other good svn stuff here).