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Migrate Team Foundation Server’s SQL Server to another SQL Server (same or new version)

by Raymund Macaalay

How to migrate Team Foundation Server's SQL Server to another SQL Server (same or new version)

Close a Work Item only if Child Work items are closed

by Suresh Malluri

Team Foundation Server is an ALM tool. It can be extended as per the business requirement. Controls can be created so as to populate them on the work item form. We can add additional business functionality by creating the controls. The API provided by TFS makes this possible.

Automated Creation of NuGet Packages

by DannyVarod

Fast, stable and powerful creation of NuGet packages

Programming against the (undocumented) Release Management API

by KevinPo

How to navigate and program against the Release Management API, even though it does not have official documentation.

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TFS: Universal Download task gives error "##[error]Failed to get artifact tool. Cannot read property 'toString' of null"

by Randy Kroeger

Build server fails when executing the Universal Download Task

Bulk Generation of Tasks in TFS

by Mykola Tarasyuk

Bulk generation of tasks in TFS

Retrieving TFS Test Case Parameters using C#

by PlebProgrammer

How to retrieve TFS test case parameters in C#

Testing using Newman on TFS with Docker

by Santosh Vijay Patil

Continuous Testing using Newman (Postman) on TFS 2017 with Docker

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TFS

Migrate Team Foundation Server’s SQL Server to another SQL Server (same or new version)

7 Oct 2013 by Raymund Macaalay

How to migrate Team Foundation Server's SQL Server to another SQL Server (same or new version)

Close a Work Item only if Child Work items are closed

20 Feb 2014 by Suresh Malluri

Team Foundation Server is an ALM tool. It can be extended as per the business requirement. Controls can be created so as to populate them on the work item form. We can add additional business functionality by creating the controls. The API provided by TFS makes this possible.

Automated Creation of NuGet Packages

6 Aug 2014 by DannyVarod

Fast, stable and powerful creation of NuGet packages

Programming against the (undocumented) Release Management API

8 Dec 2015 by KevinPo

How to navigate and program against the Release Management API, even though it does not have official documentation.

Integrating list of custom types in TFS Build Template

19 May 2014 by wliao

Integrating list of custom types into the TFS build template

Developing a Custom Comment Checkin Policy for TFS and Eclipse

2 Feb 2015 by Yildirim Kocdag

This article helps you develop, test and deploy a custom comment check in policy for Eclipse IDE and Microsoft TFS. A plug-in should be written for comment checkin policy development

Introduction to Team Foundation Services 2015

20 Jul 2016 by Dominic Burford

Configuring a simple build using Team Foundation Services 2015

TFS SDK: Work Item History Visualizer using TFS API

22 Aug 2011 by Tarun_Arora

TFS SDK: Work Item History Visualizer using TFS API

Lotus Notes to Team Foundation Server

3 Aug 2015 by ambilykk

Emails to Work Items

TFS API Part 28 - Test Suite Hierarchy Builder

30 Jul 2010 by Shai Raiten

Test Suite Hierarchy Builder

TFS API Part 29 – TFS Impersonation

23 Aug 2010 by Shai Raiten

TFS Impersonation

How to browse in Team Foundation Server

28 Sep 2012 by JF2015

This is certainly possible. For example you could achieve this by leveraging the Team foundation server command line tools which basically allow you to do everything without VisualStudio.See here for a list of available...

Live Q&A with Microsoft CVP Brian Harry

12 Nov 2014 by CodeProject

On Wednesday November 12, Microsoft CVP Brian Harry will be available here for a live Q&A in the comment section of this article.

Experiment with ECMAScript 6 on Babylon.js with TypeScript 1.5

14 Oct 2015 by David Rousset

Since releasing babylon.js, the WebGL open-source gaming framework, a couple of years ago, we (with help from the community) are constantly exploring ways to make it even better.

Posting Externally Derived TFS Test Case Results

28 Jul 2017 by ergohack

This is an article on how to post automated test results to Microsoft's Test Manager Infrastructure from external sources (e.g. your home grown automated test harness).

Find Changeset Details for All Work Items in a TFS Query

14 Apr 2016 by Asmita Bhurke

Generate work items report from TFS including their associated changeset details

Team Foundation Server MSSCCI Provider 2010

21 Jul 2011 by Shai Raiten

Team Foundation Server MSSCCI Provider 2010

TFS - Get Latest VS Get Specific Version

22 Aug 2011 by Tarun_Arora

TFS - Get latest vs get specific version

TFS SDK: Workspace Explorer & Statistics

31 Aug 2011 by Tarun_Arora

TFS SDK: Workspace Explorer & Statistics

TFS API: Using LINQpad to Query TFS

13 Sep 2011 by Tarun_Arora

TFS API: Using LINQpad to query TFS

TFS API–Release Notes From TFS Builds

25 Dec 2011 by Tarun_Arora

TFS API-Release notes from TFS Builds

TFS Building new project definition failed

10 Jul 2012 by Sandeep Mewara

The type or namespace name 'Common' does not exist in the namespace 'myAPPName'This error simply means that you are missing some class or assembly. Get latest code, force get all and try to rebuild. Check for the line 7, where this error occurs and navigate to the file (try to) and see if...

TFS 2010 CMMI Process Work Flow . Can any 1 explain plz

31 Jul 2012 by Wes Aday

Start here[^]

Changing The Default Days Off Sprint

1 Oct 2012 by Sandeep Mewara

As mentioned here: Similar question at MSDN forum[^]It says:In the common process config settings you can change the weekend days.If you are on TFSPreview, you are unable yet to modify these settings. But if you are working on premise, you can change that with some steps provided at...

Code Review for Visual Studio 2012 Professional with TFS 2012

24 Sep 2013 by 2irfanshaikh

VS 2012 Professional or lower versions do not have the Code Review module. To achieve this, I came up with a solution which will add a new work item type in TFS 2012. We will also learn how to create a new work item type in TFS.

TFS Rev-Up, A Utility to Increment Build Revisions

25 Aug 2013 by Tim Golisch

A utility to increment build numbers for TFS

Error During Configuration of Scheduled Backups for Team Foundation Server

16 Aug 2014 by Manas Bhardwaj

Error during configuration of Scheduled Backups for Team Foundation Server

Connect to TFS using Microsoft Excel

1 Jan 2016 by HadyAllam

Use Microsoft Excel to generate TFS reports and Create/Modify Work Items

TFS Post-Build Check-in Using PowerShell

9 Feb 2016 by Jim Roth

Use PowerShell Post-build scripts to check in binaries to TFS for continuous integration during the build process.

Multiple Tagging of TFS Work Items Using Excel

30 Mar 2016 by Sifiso W Ndlovu

How TFS work items can be multi-tagged using Microsoft Excel

TFS API Cloning Work Items with Children

18 Aug 2016 by Metaphysico

Clone a TFS Work Item and Its Children with links

Batch Script of TFS Checked Out Files

4 Mar 2017 by yuvalsol

Batch script that retrieves checked out and changed files from TFS and saves their paths to output file

Run integration unit test without SQL server

4 Feb 2019 by OriginalGriff

Well ... SQL Server 2017 Express Edition | Microsoft[^] - it's free, so no licence cost, and you should be developing against an Express version anyway. Developing / testing against the production DB server is a good recipe for "Oh f*ck" moments and production downtime while databases are...

How to Change TFS 2010 Attachment Size

21 Jul 2011 by Shai Raiten

A post on how to change attachment size in TFS 2008.

TFS SDK: Compare Changesets Programmatically

22 Aug 2011 by Tarun_Arora

TFS SDK: Compare changesets programmatically

Visual Studio 2010 TFS Solution CheckIn Hotkey

26 Aug 2011 by AlexCode

Quick way of showing the Solution check-in modal window on Visual Studio

Can any one help me out in executing this code

15 Sep 2011 by Alan N

If you break the problem into steps you have1) Start the command processor2) run vcvarsall.bat3) run "tf help > tfshistory.txt"So you actually want to run two commands not one and that will require the use of the "&" operator. private static void RunCmds() { const...

Using PowerShell to Generate TFS Change Manifest for Build Artifact Delivery

10 Aug 2012 by Gary Stafford

Use PowerShell 2.0 to aid in the delivery of build artifacts for release, by generating a manifest of file changes.

Changing The Default Days Off Sprint

1 Oct 2012 by mohsen_alikhani

How to change the default days off for all sprint in Team Foundation Server 2012(RTM)?

Changing The Default Days Off Sprint

28 Oct 2012 by mohsen_alikhani

Please go to the path :\Program Files\Microsoft Team Foundation Server 11.0\Tools\Deploy\ProcessTemplateManagerFiles\1033\Scrum\Template\WorkItem Tracking\Process. Open the file CommonConfiguration.xml, and find the Weekends node, customize your weekends. By default, the settings...

Splitting Product Backlog Items to the specific Sprint Backlog Items

4 Oct 2012 by mohsen_alikhani

How to Split Product Backlog Items to the specific Sprint Backlog Items in Team Foundation Server 2012?

Splitting Product Backlog Items to the specific Sprint Backlog Items

4 Oct 2012 by mohsen_alikhani

The sprint backlog contains the product backlog items assigned to the sprint along with any tasks associated to the product backlog item.

Changes in Visual Studio 2012

22 Oct 2012 by Shweta Lodha

Changes in Visual Studio 2012.

TF237165: Team Foundation could not update the work item because…

25 Jun 2013 by Gordon Beeming

Workaround for error message TF237165 from TFS

TFS workflow transition for custom WIT field

21 Aug 2013 by CodeBlack

I have created custom WIT say Problem. and this problem has one custom field ProblemStatus which is having four options NEW, OPEN, PLANNED and CLOSE. Now i want to define workflow transition for this custom field. For Example : ProblemStatus can set to OPEN only if it's current status is...

Mirroring a Team Foundation Service Git Repository to GitHub, Bitbucket, or a Similar Public Git Service

28 Aug 2013 by NickClarkIO

A custom build activity to mirror a TFS Git repository to a public Git repository.

How can I hook checkin event on TFS when I click checkin item on team foundation server 2012

14 Sep 2013 by Mehdy Moini

TFS 2010 introduced a new concept with Server-side event handlers, which use a Plug-in model that allows custom code to execute upon a TFS event, and run under the TFS context. So the two big advantages here is that you no longer have to deploy a separate SOAP-based web service, and since you...

Want Suggestion from Programming Friends

23 Oct 2013 by thatraja

Hereafter don't include multiple unrelated questions while posting questions.Quote:Don't Answer as links directly give some information as Answer to my questionsOK, I'll tryQuote:1)What is Razor is it having any relation with java script?Yes, Razor is a View. You could include javascript...

Team Foundation Server Best Practices (2 of 3)

9 Nov 2013 by JJ Bussert

Best practices in Team Foundation Server (Part 2)

Source control option is not available in visual studio tools menu

11 Nov 2013 by ♥…ЯҠ…♥

Hi All, Finally I got it, Tools Menu--> OptionsIn that wizard below there is one checkbox called "Show all settings", checked that optionNow all the options are listed including "Source control" options.Now I am able to change the source control in visual studio.Regards,RK

how to get selected item states in Solution Explorer in Visual Studio 2010?

5 Feb 2014 by Member 10384369

i am writing visual studio add-in for company's internal usage. It is integrated via TFS command line utility, and it has its own menu in solution explorer (Check in, Check Out, Add to Source...).I want to know the state of the selected item in solution explorer, whether it is added to...

Changing weekend in Team foundation 2012

24 Mar 2014 by KumarSundeep

You can refer to below for your answer:Changing The Default Days Off Sprint[^]

Be Careful in Printing 'Error:' in Custom Build Events of Visual Studio

20 Apr 2014 by Zhuyun Dai

Your build will fail if you print 'Error:' in your custom Build Events of Visual Studio.

TFS Express Repository size

27 May 2014 by Rajesh R Subramanian

Yes, one database for all of your data.The data limit will be:> 4 GB if you use SQL Server 2008 Express > 10 GB if you use SQL Server 2008 "R2" Express editionUnless you're checking in large files (binary files of any kind), 10 GB is normally a pretty good limit for a 5 user project.

Bulk Generation of Tasks in TFS

20 Feb 2021 by Mykola Tarasyuk

Bulk generation of tasks in TFS

Which files must I omit and edit to erase all traces of TFS binding?

27 Oct 2014 by B. Clay Shannon

I want to move an existing project to a new location and strip it of all its source control binding information.It is a solution created in Visual Studio 2003, which in its current state is bound (sort of - it's not working well) to TFS, whose bindings are controlled by using the MSSCCI...

Test Controller configuration

13 Nov 2014 by Member 11221475

Hi, I am a beginner to MTM. I am trying to configure Test controller with TFS. Here i am using Visual studio 2012 with Microsoft update 4, TFS, Microsoft Test Manager. 1) I successfully checked in the code into my TFS and integrated MTM with TFS.2) I added CodedUI and successfully...

Continuous Delivery with TFS: Standing up an Environment

5 Mar 2015 by Graham D Smith

Continuous Delivery with TFS: Standing up an Environment

"Get latest version" - does not get the latest version. Why?

26 Apr 2015 by Joezer BH

TFS's get latest version actually gets only what files the server thinks you are missing or were changed. Thus if you want to get the latest version regardless of what the server thinks, you should select "Get specific version" and then check both of the Overwrite checkboxes.Cheers, C

unable to resolve type licenses.licx

27 Apr 2015 by Mehdi Gholam

This usually happens when you have added and removed components (given you have valid license for that component).Just delete the .licx file and Visual Studio will recreate it when needed.

How to change the local TFS workspace owner name

28 Jul 2015 by Mathi2code

Hi,I have Visual studio 2013 installed with TFS 2012 in my machine.First time when I created a work space it asked me to provide the owner's user id and password.I have given that and created the workspace.Now my user id and password is changed so I want over write the older owner user...

Build and Deploy with TFS 2013

19 Aug 2015 by virusstorm

I was recently placed on project that needs some tough love and care and one of my first actions is to setup continuous integration (CI). The problem I'm running into is the solution has a wide range of project types, all needed because of the way the application was designed, my MSBuild...

Can anyone recommend a good introduction to TFS in VS 2013 or 2015?

19 Aug 2015 by virusstorm

TFS is a beast, but it provides us with many wonderful tools. I've been a TFS administrator for the last six years and I wouldn't trade it for any other tool, but that is my opinion. :)If you are truly new to it, my suggestion is to start checking out a few books. An author I recommend is...

Team Foundation Server: Guide to branching and merging with TFS 2010

7 Jan 2016 by levelnis

I often get developers who are unfamiliar with the branching and merging process within TFS asking me how it works, so I've put together a short guide that explains the basics.

Does VC++ 6.0 support TFS?

30 Jun 2016 by KarstenK

The "oldie but goldie" VC++ 6.0 worked with Sourcesafe as version control and their is not interaction with TFS. The third Google hit lead me to wikipedia (where else) where is written "TFS supports Visual Studio 2010 and later" PS: I remember coding with VC 6 and the nice wizard ;-)

Unit Testing with Team Foundation Services 2015

4 Aug 2016 by Dominic Burford

Adding unit tests to a Team Foundation Services 2015 build

Continuous Development and Integration with Git, TFS, Nuget and Artifactory – Part II

4 Oct 2016 by Kausik J. Nag

In this article, we will optimize our continuous integration and development model with the use of JFrog Artifactory.

Continuous Delivery with TFS / VSTS – A New Way of Working with Azure Resource Manager

31 Oct 2016 by Graham D Smith

A new way of working with Azure Resource Manager

Continuous Delivery with TFS / VSTS – Configuring a Sample Application for Git in Visual Studio 2015

1 Nov 2016 by Graham D Smith

How to configure a sample application for Git in Visual Studio 2015

Integrate NuGet Package Restore TFS Build 2013 or Older

20 Nov 2016 by Anton Angelov

Learn how to modify the default TFS builds' template and add options for NuGet packages restore. Add a dedicated restore packages settings' section.

Add PowerShell Scripts to TFS2012 Build

4 Dec 2016 by Muhammad Magdi

Step by step guide to add pre and post PowerShell scripts to TFS2012 build

TFS workspace problem

8 Jan 2017 by Member 12940596

found out that if you delete $tf you will lost all your pending changes and need to re-get latest.If you can still find the *.tfb files, then delete all the *.tf1 files and rename all tfb to tf1

Backdoor TFS User Image and Email Manipulation

31 Mar 2017 by ergohack

Do you need to update everyone's TFS picture? Or set the notification email address for that calcitrant employee?

Which visual studio IDE is faster- 2013 or 2015 or 2017?

1 Jul 2017 by OriginalGriff

2017 is slower than 2015, and 2015 is slower than 2013 - so if you want speed, go with 2013. However, you won't get the features and languages / language extensions you get with later versions, so upgrading your computer might be a better bet depending on your needs. We can't provide links to...

Connecting Agents to TFS using Integrated Security on http from External Domain

6 Aug 2017 by Gordon Beeming

How to connect Agents to TFS using Integrated Security on HTTP from external domain

How to fix error TFS error TF30046

26 Apr 2018 by Maciej Los

Follow these: Move Team Foundation Server from one hardware configuration to another | Microsoft Docs[^] Restore data to a different server than the current one for TFS | Microsoft Docs[^]

Testing using Newman on TFS with Docker

18 Oct 2018 by Santosh Vijay Patil

Continuous Testing using Newman (Postman) on TFS 2017 with Docker

Retrieving TFS Test Case Parameters using C#

18 May 2019 by PlebProgrammer

How to retrieve TFS test case parameters in C#

How do I migrate a big TFVC repo to git ?

8 Sep 2023 by Mircea Neacsu

Let me google that for you: Google[^]

Team Foundation Server 2010 Event Handling with Subscribers

19 Sep 2010 by Martin Hinshelwood

Team Foundation Server 2010 Event handling with subscribers

TFS 2010 Work Item Seed: TFS Work Item system.id at a Predefined Number

21 Oct 2010 by Martin Hinshelwood

TFS Work Item system.id at a predefined number

MS TFS The Project Alert is not working

24 May 2011 by vsareesh

Hello,Any one know how to give proper poject alert in TFS.I have given an alert and it is not working. Any mails coming to the id which i have given in the field.Do we need to give some setting before giving an alert?Thanks Sareesh

Sharepoint 2007 and TFS 2010 integration

6 Jul 2011 by Amit Kumar Tiwari

I following machine configuration:Windows 2008 R2 EnterpriseSQL Server 2008 R2 EnterpriseTeam Foundation Server 2010Sharepoint 2007Visual Studio 2010The requirement is to do web check-in and check-out of TFS source code.My company has employees distributed all over the world and...

Sharepoint 2007 and TFS 2010 integration

7 Jul 2011 by Not Active

Have you looked here Team Foundation Server (TFS) API Wrapper[^]