I have some questions regarding TFS 2010 please:
1- Where the pending changes are stored when using TFS 2010 (When you make changes to a file and close Visual studio without checking it in where these changes stored)
I beleive they are are not stored in the workspace.
2- When youopen Visual Studio and open the file from the workspace the changes appear in the file.
I am so confused about that. Can someone explain to me how this works please?
Thanks.
When you make changes without checking in, the modifications are stored locally but the file is flagged as "modified by" on the tfs. If you want to store the modifcations on the server without checking in you can use the shelving functionality.
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I am getting the aforementioned error most times I unshelve from Team Explorer > Shelveset Details, but unlike this question, I have my workspace set correctly under my Pending Changes window. The weird part is that I am always able to unshelve after trying a second time without changing anything.
It didn't always do this to me, and it seems to not affect anybody else on my team. I've not messed with any settings that I can think of as being relevant either.
And yes, I've restarted my computer since it started happening.
Another thing it does is deletes all ADD changes upon reconciling after passing a gated check-in build.
Thanks.
Using VS 2015 Update 3 (version 14.0.25431.01) connected to TFS 2015 (version 14.102.25423.0)
According to your description:" it seems to not affect anybody else on my team". The issue should be a client side issue.
First,you could use another TFS account to unshelve Shelvesets on your develop machine. This will narrow down if the issue related your account or not.
Suggest you try to clear TFS and VS cache:
For TFS cache:
close all instances of Visual Studio on the client machine,
manually delete the corresponding Tfs client cache folder, and then
start Visual Studio
The corresponding Tfs folders to manually delete are as follows:
Tfs 2015: "%localappdata%\Microsoft\Team Foundation\6.0\Cache\"
For VS cache:
Delete the contents from the following folders
C:\Users\<<Your Alias>>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio
C:\Users\<<Your Alias>>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VSCommon
If above not work, you could also delete the old workspace(back up local changes first), and create a new one. Then test it again, which should do the trick.
It turns out that opening the shelfset before changing my workspace from pending changes causes the issue. The solution is the change the workspace in pending changes before opening the shelfset.
I'd definitely call this a bug in VS since the shelfset viewer does not indicate which workspace it is referencing before unshelving.
I had about 20 files pending changes in my solution in Visual Studio 2015,I had a problem with repository so clicked on "Undo pending changes" thought I had already had shelved my changes. After undoing pending changes I noticed that I hadn't created any shelveset of those change.
I googled a bit about it and I found this link How can I get my changes back after clicking “Undo pending changes…” in Visual Studio 2013 and TFS
I tried the solution mentioned in answers of link above but there is no TFSTemp folder in my AppData\Local\Temp folder do notice that I'm using Visual Studio 2015 but the user asked this question is using Visual Studio 2013. Maybe vs 2015 store TFSTemp in different location but where ???
Any Idea about how I can get my changes back???
Any help would be greatly appreciated
The TFS Temp folder should be the same path "AppData\Local\Temp\TFSTemp". It's not related to VS version. If you could not find it in your own account, give a try with Admin account (If the VS run in Admin mode)
You should be checking in frequently or setup some sort of backup system to avoid mistakes like this. If the files are gone from your file system, they're gone. Maybe a file recovery utility could do the trick, but the solution is too complicated. Besides past that, there's no way to get them back.
I've been through all the Visual Studio Source Control documentation and so on but I can't find an answer as to whether it's safe to keep working in Visual Studio whilst it's doing a check-in?
We're using Visual Studio 2015 with Visual Studio Team Services source control.
Sometimes there's one or more files (like video files) that take a while to check in, sometimes an hour or more. I'm worried that if I keep working (specially if I work on the same files that are busy checking in) it'll corrupt the process.
Normally, it is safe as TFS won't check the changes again after you click check-in button. It just check in the changes you made before click check-in. So edit the file does not affect the check in process.
But in some case, for exmaple, the internet access is disconnected during check-in, then you click "Refresh" button to reconnect to TFS service. The changes will be refreshed too. That means the changes you made during checking is been included now. And there isn't any way to restore to the version that you'd like to check in.
So, you'd better avoid this as possible as you can and check in large files when you are not working with them.
In my company, we are using Team Server Foundation 2010.
Last week when I was checking out some ssrs (sql server reporting services 2010) files, I obtained the correct files from TFS. I could see that the files were still connected to TFS.
However, I think there was a time last week where there was a message saying that I was working offline.
Now when I obtained the most current code from TFS, I do get the correct code. However I do not see that the code is connected to TFS any longer. Basically when using Source Control Explorer, I do not see that this code is linked to TFS
Thus I would like to know how to get my code back to accessed in TFS 2010?
Do you see the same problem with all files in TFS or only specific set of files?
Do you see this problem in only one workspace or in all workspaces on a single machine? Or does it affect all users?
What does it mean that files are not linked to TFS, can you post a screenshot?
TFS 2010 was quite weak story for offline and it worked only for solutions (as visible in Solution Explorer). Source Control Explorer always required connection to TFS
I'm also confuse about “files are not linked to TFS”you describle ,can you post a screenshot.
Simply offline mode means TFS 2010 goes offline (disconnect the connectivity properly between your local machine and TFS 2010 server) while your solution is already open though VS 2010.If you checkout files while you are in offline mode, then TFS 2010 source controls system doesn’t record or track any changes you made. But when you reconnect TFS server, the server will get you changes in pengding changes, then you can check in manually.
To get your solution back online to TFS you can try this solution:right-click on the solution name right at the top of the Solution Explorer and select the Go Online option.
More detail: How do I get my solution in Visual Studio back online in TFS?
You need to use the "go online" command to re-sync:
Cannot see go online option in tfs
Note: TFS 2010 is no longer supported and you should upgrade soonest
A colleague and I are working on the same area of code using Visual Studio 2008 and TFS 2005 on the server.
When we both edit the same file concurrently and I check it in first, TFS does not recognise this when he either gets latest version or checks in, meaning his or my changes get overwritten without a painstaking manual merge.
This only seems to be a problem for him.
Any ideas what the problem might be or how we can fix it?
We removed and recreated the workspace and that fixed it. Job done.