This is an older post, but since the only given answer seems “not entirely correct” to me I’d like to answer anyway: I blogged about this (in german) here: blog.nils-andresen.de If you have a local copy, that you want to un-get or un-download like this: simply right-click the folder and then click “Get Specific Version” … Read more
Go to Team Explorer, then “Pending Changes”, then “Actions”, then “Find Shelvesets”, then right click on the shelve you want to unshelve, finally “Unshelve”.
Use the command line utility TF – Team Foundation Version Control Tool (tf). You can get a list of all workspaces by bringing up a Visual Studio Command Prompt then changing to your workspace folder and issuing the following commands: C:\YourWorkspaceFolder>tf workspaces /owner:* You should see your problem workspace in the list as well as … Read more
Take a look on Undo Unchanged command of the Team Foundation Server Power Tools August 2011 c:\myProject> tfpt uu . /noget /recursive Thanks Matt Florence for link update. Thanks Ray Vega for actual syntax.
TFS redefined what “Get Latest” does. In TFS terms, Get Latest means get the latest version of the files, but ignore the ones that the server thinks is already in your workspace. Which to me and just about everyone else on the planet is wrong. See this link: http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/srlteam/archive/2009/04/13/how-get-latest-version-really-works.aspx The only way to get it … Read more
File -> Source Control -> Advanced -> Change Source Control and then unbind and/or disconnect all projects and the solution. This should remove all bindings from the solution and project files. (After this you can switch the SCC provider in Tools -> Options -> Source Control -> Plug-in Selection). The SCC specification prescribes that all … Read more
If you’re using local workspaces (TFS 2012+) you can now use the .tfignore file to exclude local folders and files from being checked in. If you add that file to source control you can ensure others on your team share the same exclusion settings. Full details on MSDN – http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms245454.aspx#tfignore For the lazy: You can … Read more
Shelving has many uses. The main ones are: Context Switching: Saving the work on your current task so you can switch to another high priority task. Say you’re working on a new feature, minding your own business, when your boss runs in and says “Ahhh! Bug Bug Bug!” and you have to drop your current … Read more
Here’s the deal: We have to tell both NuGet and TFS to ignore the packages, because NuGet is trying to do source-control related stuff that it absolutely shouldn’t be doing (bad form, Microsoft!). So you have to do two things. First, add a file named .tfignore to the solution folder (note the lack of s … Read more