Mohamed Mahmoud (El-Geish) : VSTF

VSTS 2010 and .Net 4.0 Beta 2

mohamedg — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:20:37 GMT

Beta 2 is here , give it a try and let us know what do you think. div#widget { position: relative; width: 250px; height: 155px; } body ul#cntdwn { width: 250px; height: 80px; background: transparent url(http://toysfortweets.com/visualstudiowidget/cntdwn-bg.png)...(read more)

How to: Query all labels on a folder recursively?

mohamedg — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 07:49:00 GMT

To do this, you can't call query labels with a wildcard character, you need to do the following: - Get all items blow $/Dir1 using GetItems - Loop through them calling QueryLabels on each one. Here's a code snippet: VersionControlServer sc = tfs.GetService<...(read more)

How to: Move a shelveset to another branch?

mohamedg — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 07:46:41 GMT

A very handy power tool is tfpt unshelve. It’s capable of migrating a shelveset from a branch to another, it does that by performing a baseless merge, so you will need to resolve the conflicts produced. The syntax of the command looks like the following:...(read more)

How to: Receive daily email notifications?

mohamedg — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 05:14:00 GMT

You can receive a daily email that has a compiled list of notifications, but you will need to subscribe programmatically: IEventService eventService = ( IEventService ) new TeamFoundationServer ( "http://tfs:8080" ).GetService( typeof ( IEventService...(read more)

How to: Diff shelved files?

mohamedg — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 10:34:52 GMT

You can run: tf diff /shelveset:shelvesetName;DOMAIN\ownerUserName Please note that this will diff the shelved changes against the unmodified version, not necessarily the latest version, just like what the you get from clicking compare in the shelveset...(read more)

How to: List changesets between two labeled versions?

mohamedg — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 10:10:00 GMT

You can achieve that behavior by running: tf hist rootItemSpec /r /version:LstartLabel~LendLabel Here’s my scenario: tf hist /i File.cs Changeset Change User Date Comment --------- -------------------------- ------------- ---------- -------- 65 edit mohamedg...(read more)

How to: View history of an item across branches?

mohamedg — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 10:01:09 GMT

You can use tfpt history /followbranches to follow the history of an item across branches. We are looking into supporting this in the history dialog in the next version . You can see which versions are ported over during the merge operation if you use...(read more)

How to: Switch between TFS and VSS in old IDEs?

mohamedg — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 07:41:43 GMT

If you have an IDE that uses the MSSCCI provider, like VS 2003 or VB6, and you want to switch between TFS and VSS because you have projects on both systems, you will have to change the provider every time you switch. The thing is that setting is stored...(read more)

How to: Force a check-in to be linked to work items?

mohamedg — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 07:30:11 GMT

Well, the answer to this one is pretty easy and straight-forward. You can accomplish that using a check-in policy. For example, to force users to link check-ins to work items that are not closed, you may do the following: Add a Team Query to the desired...(read more)

How to: Change TFS temp folder?

mohamedg — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 06:18:49 GMT

TFS uses a temp folder to get files that you view. The location of that folder is %TMP%\TFSTemp. It’s not configurable via TFS, tf.exe, or Visual Studio. However, you can just set the TMP environment variable. Simply: set TMP=D:\Temp set TEMP=%TMP% md...(read more)

Handy tips for tf.exe

mohamedg — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 07:56:16 GMT

Using tf.exe gives you more options and more control, here are some tips that might come handy: For item specs: You can use wildcards with most of the commands Just like most command-line apps, you can supply relative path parts (like . and ..), you can...(read more)

How to: Copy workspace mappings?

mohamedg — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 07:25:00 GMT

A common scenario that you may see is the need to share/sync workspace mappings amongst team members. A developer adds a new dependency in a certain project and changes his/her mappings to get this library, and everyone else in the team now needs to do...(read more)

How to: Switch branches in a workspace without getting all the files of the new branch?

mohamedg — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 11:17:43 GMT

One of the new features added in VSTF 2008 SP1 is that you can switch to another branch in your workspace and you don’t need to download all the files of the new branch. TFS will only download the files that differ in the new branch, if you use tf get...(read more)

How to: Move your workspace to another drive?

mohamedg — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 01:06:00 GMT

A common problem occurs when the drive that contains your workspaces runs out of disk space, or when you find yourself in a situation that you have to move your workspace to another drive. This might get tricky because your workspace mappings are stored...(read more)

How to get list of changes in a shelveset programmatically?

mohamedg — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 04:41:00 GMT

In a previous post , we used the command-line to list the changes in a shelveset. This time we are going to use an API to get the changes by calling: VersionControlServer.QueryShelvedChanges You have to be a valid user that can connect to Version Control,...(read more)