From Visual Studio, open Source Control Explorer: View | Team Explorer Select your Team Project from Team Explorer, expand it, and double click Source Control In the left-hand pane of Source Control Explorer, select your Team Project. In the right-hand pane, find your mainline branch, right-click and select Merge… In the Target branch drop-down, select … Read more
The Visual Studio Power Tools should let you do this. C:\src\2\Merlin\Main>tfpt unshelve /? tfpt unshelve – Unshelve into workspace with pending changes Allows a shelveset to be unshelved into a workspace with pending changes. Merges content between local and shelved changes. Allows migration of shelved changes from one branch into another by rewriting server paths. … Read more
Use tf.exe in the command line. In the following examples, the %PathToIde% is usually on a path like this: %ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE, or on Windows x64: %ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE (depending on Visual Studio version and installation settings). Example for get: cd C:\TFS\Arquitectura “%PathToIde%\TF.exe” get $/Arquitectura/Main /recursive Example for checkout: cd C:\TFS\Arquitectura “%PathToIde%\TF.exe” checkout … Read more
I just found one easy way to do this: Create a new Workspace in TFS pointing to a separate folder, then switchover to this new workspace and do a Get Specific Version here. Makes sense now, I just hadn’t ever tried that.
You have two options for rolling back (reverting) a changeset in Team Foundation Server 2010 Version Control. First option is using the User Interface (if you have the latest version of the TFS 2010 Power Tools installed). The other option is using the TFS 2010 version control command-line application: tf.exe rollback I have information about … Read more
It looks like you are using the Scrum process template. The TFS site has published some very brief information about Product Backlog Items and Features and the idea behind creating a new work item type. http://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/news/2013-jun-3-vso.aspx The difference between the two comes down to what granularity you want to work with your work items at: … Read more
I have found the solution for this issue. Solution: Save your files before check-in and then initiate check in. This issue will not come. Root Cause: It seems to be a bug in the dialog (Not sure), but certainly error message is confusing to user. Hope this solution will resolve your issue.
This will happen when TFS has some changes staged that no longer exist on the file system. For instance, if you add some files in Visual Studio (which adds them to the changes list), delete them directly from the file system, then attempt to check in the changes, it will complain that it could not … Read more
This command run in the Developer Command Prompt for Visual Studio did the trick: tf workspaces /updateComputerName:MyOldComputerName /s:”http://MyServer:8080/tfs/MyCollection” It had to be run from the computer I wanted to assign the workspace to (that is how it gets the new computer name.
If you have TFS Power Tools installed, you can run this in a command prompt: tfpt searchcs to get a GUI window with options to search by committer and comment text. I’m using TFS Power Tools (March 2011 version) and TFS 2010.