Clearcase for Visual Studio problems

I'm working with a large corp customer that have standardized on IBM Clearcase. It works great with all the Java development tools, but when starting up large scale Visual Studio development we have experienced lots of problems, especially with the Clearcase plugin for Visual Studio 2008. For instance:

- Clearcase looses files, especially when adding files to VS project locally

- Merge performs  poorly in general. In particular, merge of the VS project file is a source of major headache. Merge of CSS files reports successful, but when we're analyzing it there was lots of errors in the merged file.

- The Update view command is unreliable. Developers doing the Update view command doesn't always get all the latest files, and worse is that they get no message. They work on old files without knowing it, the developers worst nightmare!

If you have any experiences or tips, feel free to contact me or comment!

© Copyright 2009, Tomas Elfving

MOSS sp 2 now available

The MOSS sp 2 is now available for download at  http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/04/28/announcing-service-pack-2-for-office-sharepoint-server-2007-and-windows-sharepoint-services-3-0.aspx.

Major improvements in the areas of:

1. Performance, availability and stablilty - lots of small fixes and improvements across nearly all the components. New/improved functions like a timer job that automatically rebuilds content database index to improve database performance. Another difference is when a content database is marked as read-only, the user interface will be modified so users cannot perform tasks that require writing to the database.

2. Broader browser support. Internet Explorer 8 is added into Level 1 browser support. FireFox 3.0 is added into Level 2 browser support. (Firefox 2.0 is no longer supported by Mozilla)

3. Improved Forms based authentification. Now the client application can store user credentials instead of asking for them every time.

4. Long-awaited improvements in product dokumentation

All the details of SP2 can be downloaded here: 

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=148551

© Copyright 2009, Tomas Elfving