Its strange how much source code control systems excite me. I wonder if its a special kind of fetish. Anyway, according to Buck Hodges and Brian Harry (and they would know) there is a plug-in available for Visual Basic 6.0 and Visual C++ 6.0 which allows them to store their source artifacts in the TFS version control store.

You can download the bits here! Note that a plug-in isn’t availble for VS.NET 2002/2003 just yet.

Most code that has been developed on Visual Basic 6.0 is probably getting close to end of life now but there is so much of it out there that we need some way of managing it. I see this being used in two ways, firstly I would expect people to create team projects and park their code in TFS so that it can be accessed universally – in addition to that I think this might be useful for people that are doing a staged migration from VB6 to .NET (replacing individual components as they go).

In theory you could get Team Build to automate the build process as well by manually adding the MSBuild scripts in the appropriate locations.