tfs
Visual Studio 2015 new files not being added to source control automatically
Folders called Release and their contents is automatically excluded from TFS (along with Debug and lots of file types). You can override this for particular folders by creating a .tfignore file, as detailed in the “Customize which files are ignored by version control” section of this link Customize which files are ignored by version control … Read more
Renaming TFS2010 Team Project
In all: No, it can’t be done. Your only shot is to create a new Team Project named as you ‘d like and then move everything to it. This involves serious work done by hand. After that, you can’t erase your old TeamProject – you will loose the history. You can lock it and make … Read more
In Team foundation server what is build agent and controller?
In TFS, the build system consists of two main constructs: the Build controller and the Build agents. The Controller’s job is to queue build requests and send them to the “most available” build agent. The Agent’s job is to perform the actual build. This setup allows you to easy grow into a “Build Farm”, which … Read more
How to download TFS shelveset
If you just need to get the files from the shelveset to your local folder, this is a normal process and called Unshelve. It downloads the files to your local folder. For example, before unshelve you had the following in your local folder: File 1 File 2 The shelveset has: File 1 (Modified) File 3 … Read more
Team Build: Publish locally using MSDeploy
Unfortunately sharing of the Publish Profile is not supported or implemented in MSBuild. The logic to publish from the profile is contained in VS itself. Fortunately the profile doesn’t contain much information so there are ways to achieve what you are looking for. Our targets do not specifically support the exact same steps as followed … Read more
Find Shelveset of Another User
I also had this issue, and typing in other names didn’t yield any results. Instead I found that if I search for * then I can see all shelfsets and their name, and I can hover over the name to see the owner.
Entity Framework Merge Nightmare
Craig Stuntz does a good job of explaining that it is the designer related xml (the positions of entities and associations etc on the design surface) that causes most of the problems here. Conflict resolution within the edmx:Runtime element however, is very achievable. The best strategy for dealing with conflicts in the designer related xml … Read more