For those of us not living inside build templates every day here’s the steps that got it working for me: First find the template associated with your build (if you already know where to find it skip a couple steps). Just right click the build definition and select Edit build definition Select the Process tab … Read more
In Visual Studio a keyboard shortcut can be used for pulling up a specific Changeset or Work Item. Go to Changeset In Visual Studio open the Source Control Explorer window and while it has context press Ctrl + G. Enter the number in the Go To Changeset dialog and press OK. I know this works … Read more
Having tried all suggestions, unloaded all add ons, tried to reinstall VS, removed all extra workspaces etc. the answer to my problem was to unmap my workspace and then remap it. Problem solved. Not got a clue what the underlying fault was.
Assuming you want to remove candidate #1234… tf merge ServicePack\2.1 Integration /r /version:1234~1234 /discard tf checkin
If someone still having this issue on tfs build server you need to go the following: Make sure all projects in solution you attempt to build have the latest Microsoft.Bcl.Build package (just update it in package manager). After build failed see all project (in tfs build log summary) that generate this error (“The build restored … Read more
You can define your path in cmd with the TFPT. And then, from there, you go to the destination folder or workspace where you want to unshelve your code. 1. c:\>path = %path%;C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2010 Power Tools 2. cd c:\[some location]\”destination workspace” 3. tfpt unshelve /migrate “NuGet Build” /source:”$/ProjectName/Main/Source” /target:”$/ProjectName/Main/Target-NuGet” Here … Read more
Here are TFS advantages: TFS is an application life-cycle management (ALM) solution, but Jira is simply an issue tracker. Many features of TFS, e.g. source control and automatic builds are not supported in jira and you should use other solutions, e.g. Subversion or Bamboo to this aim. All TFS components, i.e. source control, issue tracker, … Read more
Once the branch is definitely dead then I like to delete them. You can always undelete something in TFS if necessary (Options, Source Control, Show Deleted Items). Dev’s working in that area without realizing it may get some strange behaviour (i.e. files dissapearing when they do a Get Latest) however it get’s them to figure … Read more
Shelve Pending Changes stores your code changes on the server but doesn’t commit them to the branch. Here are some reasons I’ve used it: To save changes but undo locally when I’m not ready to commit changes but I need to make an emergency bug fix on the same branch. To store code for code … Read more
I was looking for the same i.e. to compare the contents of two shelveets without needing to unshelve one of them. End up writing a Visual Studio extension for the functionality. The extension is available for Visual studio 2013 http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/1fa59764-efc6-457a-a5f3-81ca68e280e8 and for Visual studio 2012 http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/33c521d4-73fc-48be-969d-fa68c511341f Please feel free to use and give your feedback.