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See and possibly unlock files checked out by other team members
Ed Hintz points out that this is easily done with TFS Power Tools and wrote about it in 2007 . In the Source Control Explorer, right click on a parent folder that contains the pending change and choose, “ Find in Source Control ”. Choose " Status...
Customizing the folders and file extensions automatically excluded
When adding items to source control a list of excluded folders as well as file extensions is shown. You can customize those defaults in the registry. Matthew Mitrik has the details: If the add operation is successfully completed, the list will be saved...
How TFSDeleteProject Works
There are some areas where data may remain behind after you use TFSDeleteProject . The TFS Warehouse is untouched. In order to remove the data from the warehouse, it must be rebuilt. (It is important to notice that, when the warehouse is rebuilt all the...
How to revert changes checked into TFS Version Control
Objective We did some changes to a file and now want to revert to an older version of that same file. In the concrete scenario we added a method called "Multiply" with changeset 8 and want to go back to the version of changeset 7. Step-By-Step...
TFS Branching Guide 2.0
Original announcement: Since the first release, we have received lots of feedback and change requests. Most feedback indicated a desire for a more practical approach to branching compared to the first release which is more theoretical. With that in mind...
Q: How can I exclude a file from code churn?
A: You can change it's encoding in version control to Binary . Background: The code churn value used by TFS report, like the Quality Indicators report, might not make any sense to you if files this value includes some specific files, like auto-generated...
Version Control Tip: Excluding specific files from multiple checkout
Question : Can I define a file name, not only a file type (extension), if multiple checkout is allowed for the whole Team Foundation Server? Answer : Yes, that is possible, although the UI shows "file extensions" and displays it in a way that...
CVS / StarTeam to TFS migration tools (3rd party)
From their website: "Timely Migration currently provides modules that support migration from CVS and Borland StarTeam. Support for additional products will be added in the future." Link to website: Timlely Migration
FIX: TFS 2008: Delete lost when you merge from delete-branch to trunk
> KB article > Hotfix download
Team Foundation Proxy - Your friend for distributed development teams
Since you can only deploy one master TFS server and replication mechanisms are not supported you might consider using a TFS Proxy server, which caches the downloads from the Team Foudation Version Control. Functionality / What it does: Cache downloads...
TFS 2008: Team Build doesn't get subfolders of team build type folder by default
In TFS 2005 subfolders of your team build type folder were copied recursively to the build temp directory. In TFS 2008 only the contents w/o recursion is copied. To change this behavior, Aaron tells us , you need to modify the following line <add key...
Documentation: Team Foundation Server SDK (online version)
From the contents: Team Foundation Server Extensibility Team Foundation Server SDK Architecture How to: Run Team Foundation Server SDK Samples Team Foundation Core Services Work Item Tracking Extensibility Source Control Extensibility Data Warehouse Extensibility...
TFS 2008 Trials: How to extend the trial?
Since Team Foundation Server 2008 was released end of November 2007 the early adopters which for some reasons have not obtained a product key yet are facing the problem of expiring trial licenses on their TFS servers. I definitely recommend to find out...
Check-In is slow when using exclusive check-out?
It’s still hot: Microsoft released a fix for slow check-in’s if you’re using exclusive check-out feature yesterday: FIX: The check-in process may be very slow when you use the Source Control feature in Visual Studio 2005 Team System...
Changing TFS email notifications to link to Team System Web Access
Thanks to this MSDN Forums post I was able to change the link included in every TFS notification e-mail to point to TSWA instead of the project portal. Here’s the full story: When using project alerts to get notified about work item changes you get an...
Tool for creating links to pages on Team System Web Access
Would you like to send links to work items, team projects or source files on  Team System Web Access ? For work items … you can find the answer in the offical TSWA FAQ : Q: What’s the URL to use if I want to send the link of a specific work item...
How to remove someone else's workspace in TFS
A customer asked: “During my vacation my collegue was working on my machine and mapped the solution file to D:\Projects. Now I returned and wanted to map the solution to that folder as well, which obviously doesn’t work since it is already...
Listing version control changes with check-in comments using TFS
You can easily query for changes on a team project or a specified version control folder underneath and display them in a list with the check-in comments. By using Team System Web Access (TSWA): Note: I’m showing this first because the dialog is...
Posters can make complex things easy to remember
Willy-Peter Schaub [1], a fellow VSTS MVP [2], is our "king of Posters" when it comes to visualize complex things from Microsoft recommendation and best practices papers into nice and easy-to-remember posters! Microsoft Team System Branching poster [3...
[Tip] Shortcut Key for Pending Changes Window
Can't find a window anymore? That's no problem since you can find all the tool windows in the corresponding menu in Visual Studio. Looking for Windows in VS It's under the View menu: Well, sometimes also unter the View » Other Windows menu: If it's one...
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