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This switch was added to "tf get" to improve performance when a user is switching an existing workspace from one branch to another. The performance benefit is best explained with an example. Let's say that in our Team Project Collection we have...

Many Team Foundation Server customers have developed custom tools and processes that leverage our public client object model in order to automate tasks specific to their organization. With version control, one of the most common tasks to automate is checking...

Updated 2/25/2010. Thanks to Shaun and Amos for their recommended changes! One of the new features of TFS 2010 is automatic version control proxy configuration. The first time a version control operation is executed, the client contacts the server and...

In TFS 2005 and 2008, workspaces in version control have the following limitations. The owner of a workspace is set at creation time and cannot be changed (immutable). A workspace can only be used by its owner. When we speak of “using” a workspace...

I've received a request for a version of the sample Source Control Explorer context menu addin that works with Visual Studio 2005. You can find that sample addin here: VersionControlExtensibility2005.zip

Update 2/26/2009: You can find a version of this sample addin that works with VS 2005 here . We've gotten some questions recently about how to interact with and extend our out-of-the-box version control functionality. For most users, the main hub of...

In TFS a lock is a kind of pending change, in the same category as add, edit, delete, rename, merge, etc. A pending change of type "lock" is not committable, however. You will never look at the history for $/Proj/file.cs and find that in changeset 5678...