I had a situation where a branch had been deleted and there was no purpose for it to stick around. I couldn’t get tf destroy to work until I found out the deletion number of the directory like Damien mentioned. I couldn’t get that ID with tf properties since there was no local copy and … Read more
According to this blog the solution is (and Yes it worked for me) Close all instances of Visual Studio Open the Task Manager and check if any TFS Services are running. Select each of them and click on End Process Tree (in my case I did not find any of them to End) Browse to … Read more
Richard suggested: Team | Manage Connections then click on manage connections, from where you can connect to servers. “Connect to a Project” form/dialog .. thanks for this comment ! i.e. in Visual Studio Pro 2019, the option is “Add Azure DevOps Server” even though wanting to add TFS server. i.e. In Visual Studio Pro 2017, … Read more
Shelved means the changes are set aside for you to work on later. Checked in means that the changes are made available to the rest of the team, will be in the build and will eventually ship. Very different. Think of shelving as a tool for context switching when you’re not done with a task. … Read more
If you want to change the local path for the working directory of the Team Foundation Server (TFS), you need to go to File -> Source Control -> Workspaces (File -> Source Control -> Advanced -> Workspaces for VS2017), then select your workspace (it should match your computer name) and click Edit. In the next … Read more
Your project doesn’t have appropriate Source Control Bindings! With the solution open, you’ll need to go to File -> Source Control -> Change Source Control to view the bindings for your projects. The failing one probably will show an “Unknown” or not binded status. You can then use that dialog to correct the binding and … Read more
For anyone having the same issue a work around is to undo your pending changes. When you get the confirmation dialog choose “No to all”. Only your pending changes should be left.
Windows Credentials -> Generic Credentials Then add a new item with “git:” in front of the http:// i.e.: git:http://Example.com add domain\user as user, and password
They have two different purposes, ChangeSets are when the files have actually changed and you wish to keep a permanent record of that change. Labels mark a certain version of the files so that you can easily go back to that point. Unless your build actually changes files under source control and you wish to … Read more