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TF204000: The Team Foundation server to which your team project is connected does not support the Rollback command.

When I try to rollback my bad changeset using tf rollback /changeset:xx I'm getting next error: TF204000: The Team Foundation server to which your team project is connected does not support the Rollback command. Is it possible to fix that someway? Googling brings not result ...

How to move TFS commands in Visual Studio from right-click menu into sub menu?

Since we have installed TFS as our source code control system, my right-click menu in Visual Studio 2010 is ridiculously long! I know how to customize the context menus, but having to do it in all those places is painstaking... is there any addin that will automatically move all the TFS-related items into a sub-menu. I miss how Ankh ...

duration of migration from svn to tfs

how much time ll it take to migrate from VSS/SVN to TFS ...

TFS 2008: Overwrite Label on file

Hi all, I'm trying to apply Label on a file, but I obtain this error because Label already exists on an old version of file: TF203007: Cannot create the label because the version controlled item $/MyProj/MyFile.cs already exists or has been specified more than once. I want move Label from an old version to Latest. Is it possible? Th...

Is there a way to find out which changesets I haven't synced to?

In TFS I can do: > tf get /preview to find out which files have changed since I last synced. But I want to know which changesets those file changes belong to. Something like the output of 'tf history' applied to the changes I'm missing. Is there a built-in way to do this? (Note: I'm a command-line person, so an answer that uses the...

Get code of project being built and place into a directory

Hi, I want to write a TFS task which will get the code of the project being built and put it into a directory on the build agent for burning to a cd. How could I get the code and put it into a directory? Thanks ...

Limiting results from TFS WorkItemStore.Query

Is there a way to limit the amount of workitems that gets returned from WorkItemStore.Query? workItemStore.Query("Select Title from Issue where (State = 'Active') order by Title") <-- returns quite a few results. For what I'm doing I only want the first 5 results. Using a query like "Select TOP 5 ID, Title from Issue where (State = 'A...

Team Foundation Server 2010 - Legacy Code & VSS

Going to install TFS 2010 today, however have few doubts here: In our current setup, we use: ASP.Net 1.1 ASP.Net 2.0 VSS VB 6.0 Classic ASP 3.0 and DB objects that contains SPs, Functions,Triggers and DML codes. We have our VSS folder like : FrontEnd - Classic ASP - All module wise classic asp files and JS files ...

TFS 2008 connection via internet

Hi everbody, I install an TFS 2008 on Server 2008 machine. TFS is working very well in localusers but We can not reach our projects via internet. Developers who are outside the office could not reach TFS. How can I handle this?? ...

Using _TEAM_BUILD_ with TFS 2010

We moved from TFS 2008 to TFS 2010. With TFS 2008 I used _TEAM_BUILD_ in project file const to turn PostBuild event off when building by build server. Now, when I create build definition with new format, without using tfsbuild.proj, but using Default template, it doesn't seem to work. I have PostBuildEvent running even though I am usin...

Move Projects Between Collections in TFS 2010

As the title says, I'd like to move some projects between collections. The only resources I've found are these two and they don't address how to do this: Feature Request Move a Collection Does anyone know of any other resource or has information on how to move a project from one collection to another? ...

Cannot find any MDX syntax about adding comments

I am customizing one of the CMMI reports in TFS 2010. One of them is "Bug Status". When I open the query in the Query Designer of BIDS, i see that two backslashes (//) are used for comments. But where does the comment stop? It looks like a tab is the stop.... Is there any reference to find about the comment syntax ? Here is the quer...

Advantage of using TFS over third party tools combination for entire software Lifecycle.

I need to pitch-in for using of Team Foundation Server 2008 as a complete Lifecycle management tool including Requirements, Source control, Daily builds, Test Cases integration, Bug tracking. Please help me with some of the advantages of using TFS over some of the cheaper third party tools like say, Tortoise/SVN + BugTracker + CruiseCon...

Checking in Shelvesets

I'm a developer and I've made some changes to a solution, which I have saved off to a shelveset. Another developer unshelves my changes and builds the solution on a server. Is there a way for the second developer to check in my shelveset? I know he/she can check in the individual files comprising the shelveset. However, I was thinkin...

listing all contents of a folder in tfs

Given a particular path of folder in tfs, I need to recursively find all files and folders within the folder for a given changeset. In other words, i need to get the transitive closure of a path in tfs for a given changeset. The problem I'm facing in doing so is listing the contents of a particular folder within tfs.. How would this be p...

Error TF218027 when creating a Team Project in TFS 2010

Consider the scenario of a user creating a new Team Project. The user is a developer who wants to create and manage their Team Project. Why can't this user create a new Team Project, including the Reporting Services components? What can be done to resolve this error? The exception is TF218027: the following reporting folder could...

Bug Status report gives 2 warnings in design previewer

I am customizing the Bug Status report from the CMMI process template in TFS2010. When opening the report in BIDS (a report designer SQLServer 2008), assigning 2 live shared datasources and clicking the preview tab, the compiler windows shows 2 warnings: [rsInvalidSize] The value of the DynamicHeight property for the chart ‘dundasChart...

TFS Absolute beginner: TF249051: No URL can be found that corresponds to the following server

This is an absolute beginner question in TFS SDK: I am trying to connect to TFS server using the code TeamFoundationServer teamFoundationServer = TeamFoundationServerFactory.GetServer(X); X is server name I am getting an error like TF249051: No URL can be found that corresponds to the following server name: X Verify...

Branching plan required ?

In the TFS Branching Guide 2010 v1 (here) the ALM Rangers gives you 4 branch plans (scenarios) at the moment. But in a related project, TFS Guide, also from the ALM Rangers (here), they offer a scenario "No Branch". This is good starting point, because having for example 2 branches (dev and main) will slow down the velocity and does int...

ClickOnce & TFS Automated Build and Deployments

I have an application that we use internally that is deployed through ClickOnce. We have 5 locations that I deploy the Install to manually by changing the Location Settings and running the Publish 5 times. We have TFS 2010 but I am unfamiliar with using it for anything besides Source Control. I would like to explore the possibility ...