Best Practice Setup - Multiple Clients & Solutions
I'm a sole developer with my own company and over 15 years of building custom solutions for companies. During this time, I've built over 100 solutions for almost the same number of clients. During...
View ArticleTFS 2013 Web Access - Error when Viewing Code History
We are testing our TFs 2013 upgrade (new hardware, upgrade from database restore) and am consistently gettint the error below when accessing Code tab and viewing history of a file or folder. This...
View ArticleTFS 2012 Project with different boards CMMI and Agile
The question is that we have projects which uses CMMI template , but we want to run Agile board, which will use code that is inside those projects with CMMI. If we start another team project, which...
View ArticleBuild only works with username and password in msbuild arguments
I have an issue with building to a new web farm. Currently it only works with the /p:Username=domain\account and /p:Passsord=secret arguments in the process template. I need to be able to call either a...
View ArticleQuery Results in TFS 2010 differ from Excel Query Results Using Team Plug In
Below are the stepsIn TFS 2010, create and save a query to retrieve requirement type work items that have a single test case linked to both requirment work items. I am using the Work Items and Direct...
View Article"copy build output to server" isn't in my Build Configuration Staging Location
I have TFS 2012 Upd 4 and a separate Build Server 2012 Update 4, and VS 2012 update 4. My Build server has a controller and two agents.The documentation shows that - in the build definition - I should...
View ArticleNot able to connect to my TFS server 2010 after I reset my domain password
Hi, I am not able to connect to my TFS server after my trip to Euorpe last month. I used it while I was in my trip. After I reported back to work, I am not able to connect to TFS server. I got the...
View ArticleUnshelve Pending Changes: Prompt says "xyz already exists"
I have a shelvset that I was able to unshelve a month or so ago, but now says many of the files in the shelveset already exist on "$/somepath/somefile" and refuses to unshelve. I've deleted all of the...
View ArticleVS 2013 Client Getting Prompted for Credentials when connecting to TFS 2013...
We are trying to connect to our TFS 2013 server from Visual Studio 2013 and getting prompted for credentials and even if we enter valid credentials, they are not accepted. We have 2 TFS web servers...
View ArticleIssue with label command through command line
I'm trying to assign lable to a file but getting this error:$tf label qa -version:6154 $/PPM/EBS/XXBEF_TOP/Sql/ppmtest.sql -login:PPMTFS,TFS.password01 The item...
View ArticleWhy I cannot access to TFS on the server via Remote Desktop?
I'm trying to access to TFS but it doesn't let me. In my personal PC I open the Remote Desktop, then I proceed to connect to the server where is located the Team Foundation Server. Then inside the...
View ArticleMissingSetupFile after Install TFS 2012 SP Ext to SP 2013
Hi.After I deploy TFS 2012 update 2 SharePoint Extensions to my SharePoint 2013 farm, I got some errors about MissingSetupFile from Central Administration site.[MissingSetupFile] File...
View ArticleQuery not showing all linked work items in Excel, but does in Visual Studio
We have a query that is exectued from Visual Studio that shows a list of all Test cases and their associated Product backlog items. For every PBI there is an associated test case and many PBI's have...
View ArticleTFS API - Get Task information.
Hi, I build C# application to get work items from TFS using TFS API.I have WorkItem object and I want to get hours information. (Remaining hours, completed hours etc.)How can i do it? Thanks!!
View ArticleRun tf get from scheduled task
I have created a bat file that does a get latest, build the solution and run some tests and scheduled it in the Windows Task Scheduler.This works if I start the task manually from the Task...
View ArticleTFS Develop: How to handle multiple version dll
Hi,I developed an tool for get information from tfs at client. But which version tfs my customer use that I can't judge.I developed under VS 2013, so I referened version 12 dll. But I want to my tool...
View ArticleGet Shelve from other TFS User
Very quick question... can I, user A, get a Shelve done by user B? I know this works fine when someone commits code, you do a "get latest" and voila. But what about Shelves? I don't want just to see...
View ArticleSharing common code between TeamProjects
Hi All,I wanted to know if TFS 2010 has the capability of sharing and synchronizing common code between various team projects.Lets say I have $/TeamProject_1 and $/TeamProject_2. I want to share some...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2013 Professional without MSDN and Team Explorer
Hi all,I am planing to buy a new Visual Studio 2013 Professional without MSDN license.Can I use Team explorer with VS 2013 since I have TFS server license?Thanks,Vinil;
View ArticleVisual Studio 2013 Professional without MSDN and Team Explorer
Hi all, I am planing to buy a new Visual Studio 2013 Professional without MSDN license. Can I use Team explorer with VS 2013 since I have TFS server license? Thanks, Vinil;
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