I have code on my local machine and want to put that into TFS. I have a new folder in TFS and I've mapped my TFS workspace to the local folder. How can I add code from my local machine to TFS?
Right click on the solution and select Add to source control.... It will then ask you to choose where you want to put it into TFS.
Right click on the folder where the code file need to be uploaded You will get these options and then select on + Add File. It will give you two options either to create new file or to upload existing file
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I have two tfs server one is test and other is live, i want to update my test server with live server.
Can someone please suggest how can i do that?
Seems you just need the source code and want to move the code in branch from one TFS server to another TFS server.
Just follow below steps:
Connect to Old TFS server
Get latest of the code
Copy all to a new directory.
Then, open Team explorer and connect to your new server. Open Source
Control Explorer by clicking the Source Control Icon.
Create a new Workspace to your new directory.
Click the "Add Files" icon in Source Control Explorer and add your
files and folders. If you like you can first delete all files you do
not want to add like (bin and obj folders)
Check in changes
Then...Most important! Open your solution from the Source Control
Explorer !! It automatically binds to the new server now
More detail steps and tutorials please refer this link: Moving source from one TFS to another
I have a bunch of Word files in VS2015 solution. These files had ben modified by end user and I am trying to update them in TFS source control. What I did was I checked them out in my solution and copied user copies into solution folder in Windows10 File Explorer. I was hoping that the pending changes would include new files copies. However, when I checked them in I had a TFS message reading there were no changes done in those files. Am I missing something? Please, help if you can. Thank you.
Possible duplicate with this question How to have TFS 2010 detect changes done to files outside of Visual Studio?
The best solution is using reconcile in TFS. After you compare a server folder and a local folder, you can reconcile the differences between the folder contents and between files that have conflicting pending changes in your local folder. Detail steps as below:
Open the Source Control Explorer
Right-click on the folder with the changes and choose Compare
Select the files you want to reconcile (press CTRL+A to select all files)
Click on the Reconcile button
Set the options in the Reconcile Folder Differences dialog. Make sure Files that do not have pending changes is set to Check
Out
Click OK
If you have local changes the Check Out dialog will be shown. Set the preferred Lock type
Click Check Out
I have an existing Visual Studio 2013 solution, and I want to put it under source control using VisualSVN Server. I installed VisualSVN Server and created a new blank repository. Their Getting Started page doesn't explain how to add a folder structure and files to the repository. I am expecting an import or add files option when right clicking on the repository node in the UI.
How do I add an exiting root folder and all its files and folders of a Visual Studio solution to a repository and make it ready so any SVN client can check out files from it? I am planning to use TortoiseSVN as the client.
You need to install TortoiseSVN and check out a working copy of the repository. Copy from solution into the working copy, select all files, and make a rightclick and select TortoiseSVN -> Add.
Commit the changes and now you have the data added to the repository.
My Visual Studio 2013 solution has a project "Test". I can rename it in solution explorer, but I also want to rename the project folder in disk and also reflect the change in Source Control(TFS). How can I easily do this?
Thank you
#CodeCaster, Thank you. Based on your advice, I have done some quick experiment, and worked it out. First step is rename the folder name in TFS; the new folder will appear in local workspace and all contents of the folder moved to this new folder. The old folder stays there with rest content which not belong to source control. You can delete it manually.
Or
Using TFS Power Tools to rename from Explorer.
I followed those steps to preserve the version history of the files inside of TFS:
Rename/move project file (.csproj) in source control explorer in VS (alternatively, this also works from within VS Solution explorer, simply select "rename")
Rename/move project folder in source control explorer in VS
now the project should be unavailable in VS, solution also gets closed
remove project from VS
add project (new path) to VS
fix project references in other projects
adjust namespaces if desired
adjust assembly name and default namespace in project settings
Don't know of an easier way. Was searching for this myself, and this should be the way to go.
I think you can rename it from the TFS Database.
Try going into tbl_Project of the Tfs_DefaultCollection Database, which you can find on the SQL Server Instance used by tfs. You can know which one is that by going into the TFS Console, click on Application Tier, then find the details of the Server under the Data Tier Summary. Run an update query against the project you want to rename.. I haven't tested this but just assuming it should work (some educated guess)..
I am using TFS 2015 Express and rename project is grayed out.
You can still rename the project using the TFS Site for the project.
Here is a link that shows how to do it.
https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/docs/setup-admin/rename-team-project
I was facing a similar issue while trying to rename a folder in Visual Studio 2015.This is what I tried.
Right click on the project file
Open with Notepad
This will generate your current solution file
Change the occurences of your prev file name. (Find and Replace with the desired name)
Save it and close
Change solution explorer name and rename the folder to your desired name.
This should work.
I have an existing directory structure that is all nicely checked into SVN, so I don't really want to mess with it.
The website code lives in a folder called C:\Projects\TheProject\Website. I want to bring the website files into a new Web Application Project without changing the directory structure.
Ideally the resulting file structure would look like this:
C:\Projects\TheProject\TheProject.sln
C:\Projects\TheProjects\Website\Website.csproj
No matter what I try I dont get what I want. There is no option to create a web application from existing code. This is very frustrating. Does anyone know if it is possible?
OK I figured it out. It's weird, but the following steps will work:
Open fresh copy of Visual Studio
File->New Project, select Web Application
Use the following settings:
Name: Website (this is the name of the existing folder with the website files in it)
Location: C:\Temp\ (anywhere will do for now)
Solution Name: TheProject (name of the existing project's root folder)
Check "Create directory for solution"
Delete the auto-created Default, Global and Web.config files
Save All and close Visual Studio
In Windows Explorer, copy the new folder on top of the existing folder so that the files are merged.
Double click on the sln file to open Visual Studio again.
Select "Show all files" (at the top of Solution Explorer)
Right click on any files or folders you want to add and select Include in Project.
Have you tried something like this?
Create a new Visual Studio Blank Solution from File-->New Project-->Other Project Types-->Blank Solution, making sure to specify c:\Projects\TheProject as your solution directory.
Copy the folder with all of the existing website stuff into c:\Projects\TheProject\WebSite.
Back in Visual Studio, right-click your solution in Solution Explorer and select "Add Existing Website." Then, pick your c:\Projects\TheProject\WebSite folder.
Good luck, HTH.
Create a new web project with a .csproj file. Delete all the files it comes with. Drag everything into the project.
In the File menu, click Open, and then click Web Site. Choose the root folder where your Web Site is located
On top of #cbp answer I would like to add that if you would like to keep the Version control history of those files - in step 6 - instead of copy do:
git mv original-website/* new-web-application-directory/.
What have you tried? I normally create a blank solution and add existing folders (drag and drop on solution explorer works best), and have not had a problem.
in VS 2008 File->New->Project From Existing Code