Does anyone use MS Team Foundation Server for Version Control

[Former Member]

Has anyone had experience using MS Team foundation server for version control of Powerbuilder.  We are currently using PB 11.1 on some projects and PB 12.5 on others.  I have not found any way to open Team Foundation server outside of Visual Studio.  If that can be done, I need to control my code at the object level not the .pbl level

Thanks for any info that can be provided.

[former_member190719 · Accepted solution]

What you need in order to use it from an MSSCCI based source control product (e.g., PowerBuilder Classic) is the Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server MSSCCI Provider.  Once that is installed, PowerBuilder will see it as a source control option and you'll be able to work with it directly within the PowerBuilder IDE.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

The link references pb 11.5 as a supported version. The op is running 11.1. I wonder if that's a problem.

[former_member190719 · Accepted solution]

No.  The product will work with any version of PowerBuilder that supports MSSCCI.  If memory serves, that would be 8.0 and above.

Here's a blog entry from somebody who does run it this way:

http://blogs.objectsharp.com/post/2011/02/07/PowerBuilder-and-TFS-Source-Control.aspx

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thanks Bruce,

Thanks for the quick and thorough response. I downloaded the MSSCCI provider and it does immediately appear in the workspace properties source control dropdown.  The blog you pointed me to in a later post, gives pretty good instructions for organizing my pbls, objects, etc.

Happy New Year.

Mel

[Former Member]

Dear Polatchek,

We are converting our existing
powerbuilder12.5 project source code from visual source safe 6.0 (VSS) to team
foundation server 2010 (TFS). The TFS 2010 is basically an application life cycle
management tool (ALM). You can maintain the full project life cycle using this
tool. The following feature is available in TFS 2012.

• Analytics
• Project Management
• Requirement Management
• Version controlling
• Customizable Process
• Build Automation
• Test case management
• End-to-End Traceability
• Lab Management

We are follow the following process before connect to our PowerBuilder
source to TFS server.

• Create team project collection (if required).
• New group
  creation & allow permission.
• Create new team project (if required).
• Give the proper permission to the user based on
  your requirement.

You may configure so many things
like product backlog, sprint, user’s story etc. You can create test plan
generate burn down chart. Means so many this you can do using this ALM product.
We are doing version controlling using this. Hope the following link will help
you lot.

Using Version Control

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms181368.aspx

Thanks

Avishek