I inherited a project at my new company that used to connect to a TFS server. Now I only have the zip of the source/solution which I have dumped into my Kiln (mercurial) repo.
The issue I am having is every time I open the solution I see this prompt
"Please provide credentials to connect to team foundation server"
If I hit cancel I see this...
Any ideas as to how to avoid this every time I open the solution?
You need to remove the binding to TFS from the inside your projects.
In Visual studio, with the projects loaded, open the file menu->source control->change source control->Unbind for all the projects.
This will remove a section of xml from your .csproj (or whatever type).
Save your projects and you should be free of TFS.
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I upgraded a visual studio 2012 web form application to Visual Studio 2012 and added the upgrade to tfs 2010. As part of this upgrade process, I removed a web deploy project from the solution file since I do not need the web deploy 2010 project anything. The application is now being deployed as a publish website.
The problem is When I obtain the updated solution file from TFS, it keeps saying 'projects have been recently added to this solution. Do you want to get them from source control? If I click yes, it wants to open -Deploy.wdproj that is not supported by the application.
If I click yes, nothing else happens. Should I get rid of this message?
According to your description and error message, this seems due to the project that was deleted from source control but still referenced in the .sln. The .sln was not aware of this. Please checkout the .sln file, and update the reference.
Another solution is unbinding and binding again the solution file.
1. Unbinding the solution file from TFS
Unbind the solution file (.sln) from TFS. Go to the menu File =>
Source Control => Change Source Control.
2. Cleaning the solution file by deleting globalsection
Clean the solution file (.sln) by opening it in a text editor. Remove
all occurences of GlobalSection(TeamFoundationVersionControl) =
preSolution. Including the mentioned starting tag and the ending tag
EndGlobalSection.
3. Bind the solution file to TFS again
Finally bind the solution file (.sln) to TFS again. Do this in visual
studio by going to the menu`File => Source Control => Change Source
Control
Take a look at this similar question: Every time I open my VS solution I get “Projects have recently been added to this solution. Do you want to get them from source control?” Hope this helps.
I am trying to add new projects to the Team Foundation Server and every way I have tried to add them has failed. We are running TFS 2012 Version: 11.0.50727.1 (RTM) and I am running Visual Studio 2015. I am a member of the Administrators Group.
I have tried at least 3 ways that MS support says how to do it on the website and none of them have worked:
I have tried to add it through Visual Studio
I have tried to add it through the Team Foundation Server Administration Console on the Server.
I have tried to add it through the TFS Web Management Portal.
When I try to add it through Visual Studio, I get an error when trying to check it in. It shows on the Source Control Explorer with a pending change of 'Add'. Here is a screenshot of the team explorer and output:
Since the message tells me to add it to the server, I opened the TFS Server Admin Console and When I go into the Team Projects Tab under Team Project Collections, it lists the existing projects, however, there is no way to add a new project. Here is a screenshot of the Admin Console:
There is only a help icon with a link on How to add a Team Project, although like with most MS help articles, it is useless. It provides information about how to do it on the web. So I tried it. I accessed the web portal for our TFS server and there isn't any option to add a project there either. When I go in to the "View the collection administration page" It tells me "Not all Collection level administration is exposed in the web experience. For all administration operations at the collection level please use the Administration Console on your Team Foundation Server.". Here is a screenshot of the online portal:
Can someone please help me with this issue? How can I add the projects to the Team Foundation Server?
I figured out how to Add the projects to the Team Foundation Server using Visual Studio 2015. It is very simple and can be done right from the File Menu in Visual Studio.
First open Visual Studio 2015. (I am not sure if it works the same in other versions.)
Go to File -> New -> Team Project...
The New Team Project Wizard will popup where you can then enter the project name and project description.
Then you can choose the template type and whether you will be using TFS Version Control or Git Distributed Version Control.
Once you click Finish, the Project will be added to TFS.
You can then add the files to the workspace folder on your dev machine.
Then you can check the files into TFS using the Team Explorer. *Note: First, you may need to add the files to the project by going to the Solution Control Explorer and right clicking on the newly created project and selecting Add Items to Folder. From there you can add the files then check them in using the Team Explorer.
Please clarify you want to create a code project/solution and add it to a TeamProject, or you want to create a TeamProject. TeamProject and code project/solution are different.
If you want to create a new TeamProject, according to Client compatibility, TFS 2012 supports VS 2015 RTM or latest update. Check your VS 2015 edition and re-try to create a TeamProject.
If you want to add a code project/solution to a TeamProject, you'll have to connect a TeamProject first and create a workspace, then perform a check-in: https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/docs/tfvc/set-up-team-foundation-version-control-your-dev-machine
Last, try to clean the Cache folder on your dev computer. The folder path is: C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Team Foundation\4.0\Cache.
If none of above works, try on another dev machine to see whether you can reproduce this issue.
I have downloaded 30+ TFS projects (containing close to 100 cs projects) from my Team Services (was TFS Online). I have modified many of those cs projects and would now like to check the changes into a different Team Services repository. Is there an easy way to do this in bulk?
I know I can add the "files" to new Team Services repository through source control explorer, however, that appears to screw up the nuget package restore when they are downloaded. The only way I have found that the nuget package restore works is if I open each project, disconnect it from source control, and change the source control on the open project and check it in.
You can use TFS Integration Tool to achieve Visual Studio Online migration (VSO-To-VSO)
Detail steps please see my answer in this question: Move Team Project to another Project Collection TFS 2013 (Just need to change the TFS to VSO)
I am using Team Foundation Server with VS 2010. I am facing a problem that when i am mapping a new folder to download the code from TFS, after download all the code, all files/folder in new folder get automatically read only attribute and i have to remove this attribute explicitly after it i am able to build the solution other wise it is giving me "Access denied" error. Is there any TFS setting which is making my project files as read only.
Not with TFS 2010, this is called "Local Workspaces" and is available from TFS 2012 onwards and works like Subversion.
What you are doing, by removing the Read Only flag, is fighting TFS. What you should do is perform a Checkout on the file before editing. If you are using Visual Studio to edit solutions/projects this will happen automatically providing you have your Solution and Project bindings setup. If you are editing files outside of Visual Studio, you can perform a checkout by:
Using Source Control Explorer in Visual Studio.
Using the Team Foundation Server Power Toys to install a Shell Extension into Windows so you can Right click.
Opening the file in Visual Studio and using it as a text editor.
Using the tf checkout command line.
By removing the read only flag, you are allowing yourself to edit the file, but not instructing TFS that you have changed it, so TFS won't know to check it in when the time comes. TFS doesn't scan you workspace for changes like Subversion.
I am using TFS's Team Explorer to manage Visual Studio projects.
Recently, I've created a new Java project (not in Visual Studio) which I manually added to TFS using the Source Control Control explorer in Visual Studio.
After I added the Java project to TFS, I made some changes and bug fixes. Then, I went into Visual Studio and opened the Source Control Explorer to check in my changes, but TFS thinks that no changes were made.
It seems that I needed to check out the project before making changes. I guess I erroneously expected TFS to track that automatically, but okay.
So, using the Source Control Explorer in TFS, I checked out the project, and then I tried to check in pending changes. When I tried to check in, I got the following message:
All of the changes were either unmodified files or locks.
The changes have been undone by the server.
Is there a way to convince the server that indeed my project has changed? How can I check in the changes that I have made?
Thank you for any help.