I spent the weekend installing and configuring TFS Server 2008. I learned a lot, but mostly it was just a pain. In the end we did get things working properly.

 

After install, I wanted to port over our existing VSS from a past development project. I found this article, Migrate VSS Projects to TFS Projects, which was indeed a useful walkthrough, although it missed some important steps that were necessary for me.

 

First, the VSSConverterGUI is compiled only for Visual Studio 2005. Luckily I did have this older version lingering around still. I installed the TFS Explorer for VS2005 using the link I found on the Team System Blog. Note that the image file is in a wierd format, so I had to install Magic ISO in order to extract it; I really didn't feel like wasting a blank CD for this.

 

You put the GUI exe in the same folder as VSSConverter.exe and it will actually work, which is great. From there, I had to just browse to my VSS and TFS server, which worked very well.

 

The next issue is that I could not get teh User Mappings part of the form to work at all. So, instead, I saved the setting.xml and closed the application, and ended up rolling my own UserMap.xml in the same folder as Settings.xml using the example from the blog walkthrough above. I was able to use SourceSafe 2005 Admin to view the users so the mappings were pretty much intuitive. The other thing to note is the the tool likes it if you save both these XML files to the VSS folder, not the Common7 IDE.

 

Finally, I got the message that says "TF60032: The VSS Converter requires Visual SourceSafe 2005 or later to run. Please install Visual SourceSafe 2005 or later and try again. " like this poor fellow and this one. This was very weird because I *did* have SourceSafe 2005 installed on the very same box and was using it. So, I did some digging and thanks to this article, was able to get it working by adding the following keys to my registry using a REG import file.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SourceSafe]
@="Microsoft Visual SourceSafe Automation"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SourceSafe\CLSID]
@="{783CD4E4-9D54-11CF-B8EE-00608CC9A71F}"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SourceSafe\CurVer]
@="SourceSafe.8.0"

Finally, the import ran correctly and now all our source code in in TFS!