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
I had deleted the files in trying to reload the workspace, even though I had shelved the changes. Then VS2010 thought those files were still pending to save. I didn’t need that, so I had to figure out to “undo” the changes in Pending Changes. Then I could unshelve. It thought I had two ops … Read more
Unshelving is how you restore the shelveset to your machine so you can keep working on it. It doesn’t change the shelveset on the server (to do that you need to shelve things again and use the same shelveset name). One example for how I use it is to move changes between machines while I’m … 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