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Link TFS Work Items Programmatically
One of the things that’s bothered me with TFS is the need to manually link Sprint Backlog Items to Product Backlog Items. During sprint planning meetings, we use Excel to quickly create lots of sprint...
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Mass find & replace in TFS using Powershell
One of the problems that seems to come up semi-frequently is, “We need to update all x files to have y!” The old solution to this was manually going through all x files and updating them to have y....
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Move Shelvesets Between Branches in TFS
At my company, we do a lot of concurrent development between a number of branches. It’s not uncommon for a change made in one branch to be needed in another branch. TFS Power Tools includes...
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Private Builds in TFS
My team has configured TFS to automatically kick-off continuous integration (CI) builds when developers check-in changes. The build depends on the affected area, and the time to complete depends on the...
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Clean TFS Workspaces with Scorch & Treeclean
If you’ve been working with a TFS workspace for a long time, you know it can get filled up with all kinds of built objects and temporary files. There’s a super-easy way to clean-up using the TFS...
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Undoing Pending Changes from Another User in TFS
From time to time, we run into a situation where a team member leaves or becomes unavailable, but they still have files checked out in TFS. This can be troublesome if they have an exclusive lock on a...
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TFS SDK: Getting Started
TFS is great, but it simply doesn’t do everything I need it to do. My team has a TFS work-item-driven software development life-cycle that depends on having stories organized with tasks of certain...
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TFS Build Notifications Tool
I just learned about a useful tool for keeping an eye on builds in TFS. The Build Notifications tool can be accessed from the Start menu under Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 > Team Foundation Server...
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Filter Pending Changes By Solution in TFS
I just learned about a neat feature in Visual Studio’s Pending Changes window: filter by solution. If you’re viewing pending changes and have a solution open, you can use this toggle button to filter...
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Delete Another User’s Workspace in TFS
I’ve run into this problem several times. A build blows up for some reason and creates an orphaned workspace. Other builds then fail with the message The path [...] is already mapped in workspace...
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