… and it takes forever to merge the Help Index.
I just want to install the Team Explorer and do my stuff. Why do I have to wait an hour to merge the help index? In my opinion that should be done on a low priority thread after the install is done.
I’m just about done reading Professional Team Foundation Server
This tip needs the Team Foundation Power Tool (tfpt.exe) to work.
When you are working offline you just clear the read-only attribute on the files you want to edit. Later, when you are online, you open the command line, navigate to your workspace and run:
tfpt.exe online
Now the power tool will find all those writable files and create a change set from them.
Remember that you can not rename files while offline, but it is ok to add or remove files.
If you do a
tf.exe get filename.ext
and get All files are up to date. back, it might be because your current directory is not correctly mapped to a folder in the Team Foundation Server project your root folder is mapped to.
It your server ‘tree’ looks like this:
ProjectName
Source
ClientCode
...
ServerCode
...
…and your local folders look like this:
ProjectName
Source
ClientCode
...
ServerCode
...
TemporarySource
ClientCode
...
ServerCode
...
…then you will get All files are up to date. if you try to get files in the TemporarySource-tree.
This really bit me because I thought the return message meant that I had the current version of the file on disk, so when I tried a tf.exe checkout filename.ext and got TemporarySource\filename.exe could not be found in your workspace. I did a lot of swearing before I figured out I was in the wrong folder.
Howard van Rooijen has created a template for creating listeners to Team Foundation Server events. This might come in handy since I was thinking of creating a TFS Listener for logview4net.
I am about to separate the SQL and EventLog listeners to an assembly for MS listeners. A TFS Listener is exactly what that would need.
If you are looking for your shelved changes in the Source Control Explorer you are out of luck.
There is a tool item in the Pending Changes windows for managing you shelved files.
According to this article from the dev team deleted files are not left in a label. This might lead to some nasty surprises when you are in to restructuring your code base (as we are now). It is nice that we can get files from a specific point in time instead.
Buck Hodges announces a plugin to Visual Studio 2005 that lets you see the pending changes of other developers in your team.
The plugin is here.
Here’s a nice roundup of commands for TF.exe
Since I didn’t find this info the first time I searched I’ll add it here to.
This is what you have to do to get the Team Explorer to work correctly if your TFS Server has a different DNS name than it’s machine name.
http://geekswithblogs.net/etiennetremblay/archive/2006/07/28/86542.aspx
…and what is really missing in that instruction is to disconnect/reconnect you project in Team Explorer since all URL’s are cached on the client.
Attrice Corporation Team Foundation Sidekicks
From the site:
Team Foundation Sidekicks is a suite of tools for Microsoft Team Foundation Server Administrators and advanced users providing Graphic User Interface for administrative and advanced version control tasks in multi-user TFS environments.
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