difference between Product Backlog Item and Feature in Team Foundation work item types

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

How to have TFS 2010 detect changes done to files outside of Visual Studio?

TFS has a “Reconcile” command for this: Open the Source Control Explorer Right-click on the folder with the changes and choose Compare Select the files you want to reconcile (press CTRL+A to select all files) Click on the Reconcile button Set the options in the Reconcile Folder Differences dialog. Make sure Files that do not … Read more

TFS checkin error – could not find file

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

specify project file of a solution using msbuild

msbuild test.sln /t:project /p:Configuration=”Release” /p:Platform=”x86″ /p:BuildProjectReferences=false Notice that what is assigned to /t is the project name in the solution, it can be different from the project file name. Also, as stated in How to: Build specific targets in solutions by using MSBuild.exe: If the project name contains any of the characters %, $, @, … Read more

.net Core 2.0 – Package was restored using .NetFramework 4.6.1 instead of target framework .netCore 2.0. The package may not be fully compatible

The package is not fully compatible with dotnetcore 2.0 for now. eg, for ‘Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.Client’ it maybe supported in version (5.2.4). See Consume new Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.Client.5.2.4 package for details. You could try the standard Client package as Federico mentioned. If that still not work, then as a workaround you can only create a Console App (.Net Framework) … Read more

Change computer name for a TFS Workspace

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.