I am finishing up a new TFS implementation at my current client. They are migrating their code from VSS. VSSConverter.exe needs a SQL Server database to perform some of the intermediate steps before getting the data over to TFS, the problem is that the converter defaults to a SQL Express database, which would be great, except that I don’t have Express installed on my laptop. MSDN tells me what to do to change this behavior, but they don’t tell me when I need to add that XML element. So after messing around with it, I found that I need to add it to the “Source” section of my Settings.xml file, so it would look like this:
- <Source name=“VSS“>
- <VSSDatabase name=“c:\VSS“>VSSDatabase>
- <UserMap name=“C:\VSS Migration\Usermap.xml“>UserMap>
- <SQL Server=“.“>SQL>
- Source>