Here’s what I do in Visual Studio 2012 (Note: I have the TFS Power Tools installed so if you don’t see the described options you may need to install them. http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/b1ef7eb2-e084-4cb8-9bc7-06c3bad9148f ) If you are accessing the Source Control Explorer as a team project administrator (or at least someone with the “Undo other users’ changes” … Read more
For me, the best solution is based on iSid’s answer: to add an external tool that pops up the old dialog. You can do this from Visual Studio: TOOLS -> External Tools… -> Add, with the following values: Title: Checkin (or any name that should be displayed in the menu) Command: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual … Read more
It’s easy in TFS2012, create a .tfignore file http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/tfs/ms245454%28v=vs.110%29.aspx#tfignore ###################################### # Ignore .cpp files in the ProjA sub-folder and all its subfolders ProjA\*.cpp # # Ignore .txt files in this folder \*.txt # # Ignore .xml files in this folder and all its sub-folders *.xml # # Ignore all files in the Temp sub-folder \Temp … Read more
We wrote FlubuCore (rewrite of Flubu). It’s an open source C# library for building projects and executing deployment scripts using C# code. Main advantages of flubu that I see are: .Net Core support. Easy to learn and to use because you write build script entirely in C#. Fluent interface and intelisense. Quite a lot of … Read more
Just as Daniel said “Git and TFVC are the two source control options in TFS“. Fortunately both are supported for now in VS Code. You need to install the Azure Repos Extension for Visual Studio Code. The process of installing is pretty straight forward. Search for Azure Repos in VS Code and select to install … Read more
I just found one easy way to do this: Create a new Workspace in TFS pointing to a separate folder, then switchover to this new workspace and do a Get Specific Version here. Makes sense now, I just hadn’t ever tried that.
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
Here’s a list I’ve compiled for my own reference, along with some of the legal values that can be used. Note that these are passed into MSBuild using the /p:<PropertyName>=<Value> syntax. DeployOnBuild True False DeployTarget MsDeployPublish Package Configuration Name of a valid solution configuration CreatePackageOnPublish True False DeployIisAppPath <Web Site Name>/<Folder> MsDeployServiceUrl Location of MSDeploy … Read more
One of TFS undervalued features is cloaking. Like SVN’s ignore, cloaking will let you ignore a certain folder or files. Cloaking a Folder Cloaking a folder is easy: just right click a folder on the source control explorer and select Cloak Cloaking a File The UI doesn’t expose cloaking on a single file, but sometimes … Read more