I just caught the news on Rob Caron’s blog that Microsoft have released an update to the Visual Studio Team Foundation Server MSSCCI Provider. This tool has been available for quite a while now and for those of you that have not seen it before, it allows you to integrate Team Foundation Version Control with products that don’t support Team Explorer integration including Visual Studio 6.0 and 2003. I’ve used the beta release of the product and found it to be quite stable and I’m off to download the updated version as soon as I post this.

The release version of the MSSCCI provider has a number of enhancements over the beta versions including;

• GetLatest on Checkout support
  • Work items can be modified in the check-in window
    • Setup works on x64
      • Check-in lock is treated as exclusive
        • Parameters for external diff are passed in the same order as in Visual Studio 2005
          • Open from source control and save to source control operations are enhanced to behave more like Visual Studio 2005 and Visual SourceSafe
            • Defect fixes</UL> The download is available on the MSDN web site here. </p>