In our source control, we have a dependencies folder. It is not part of any project, but shared by a few. I have to update a couple files in there, but not sure how to go about updating these files and adding check-in notes.
How can I do this? Thanks.
EDIT: I should mention. These are DLLs, so it's not like I can edit them directly.
Go to Team Explorer
Open the Team Project
Double-click the "Source Control" node
This will display the Source Control Explorer, which will let you check out and check back in.
You can manually check out the files, then edit them in your favorite editor, and manually check them back in.
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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'm using Visual Studio Professional 2015
Version 14.0.24720.00 Update 1 with TFS 2013 (30723.00).
Let's say my local TFS workspace is d:\workspace
Some of my existing projects which are not in source control are lying under d:\projects and I want to add them to TFS.
When I copy Solution_A from d:\projects to d:\workspace\solution_a_team\Main, where solution_a_team is the team project folder with a branch named Main, Team Explorer says Detected: x add(s) - where I'm assuming x is the number of files transferred.
What's confusing is that the number x is not consistent. Sometimes all files are detected sometimes only small percentage of files. What am I doing wrong, or what's the best way to check these folders into TFS?
First, please check whether there are some files adding in the excluded changes. There are included changes and excluded changes in the pending changes page.
Also, it's not recommend to just copy files or projects to the workspace folder. It's not the right way to add files in source control.
If you want to add a solution in source control, just open the solution in solution explorer and right click the solution ,in the explorer select "Add solution to source control" and choose the location you want add to. If the solution have added in the source control, there will be a lock icon in front of it.
If you want to manually add files in version control, the simplest way you can Drag the folders or files from Windows Explorer into the folder in Source Control Explorer . More details please refer the link from MSDN: Add files to the server
Moreover, you can also achieve this through TF command, or check in files through windows file explorer directly by TFS Power Tools.
Hi guys when I open my solution from source control(TFS 2013) in the morning some folders in a class library project does not load but they are in the windows explorer so I had to "Include in project" the folder after showing all files in the solution explorer but there are no contents even though i "Get Lastest(Recursive)" but I checked the web(Tfs) in the code -> explorer there are files shown in the tree view. Is there a problem with tfs? or visual studio? or both? what can I do to resolve this?
Looks like you have files checked-in TFS but your project file in TFS doesn't have those files included. Also, when you get latest from TFS looks like you override the local changes.
I have three(ish) suggestions:
You have the directory with the included files mapped to a different place on your local drive. You can check this my looking at your workspace mappings (File -> Source Control -> Advanced -> Workspaces). If you have more than one workspace then make sure you're using the right one.
You can force TFS to download files that it believes it has already downloaded. Instead of GetLatest, choose Get Specific version (this may be on the same menu or under Advanced - can't remember for 2010). Check Overwright writeable and all files and select Get.
Install TFS Power tools and try adding the files that way (i.e. through windows explorer)
This isn't really a suggestion, as I don't believe it will work, but if the above don't, try it. As above, select get Specific version, but instead of Latest version, select Changeset and choose changeset 1. THIS WILL DELETE ALL FILES IN YOUR WORKSPACE. The do a get latest as normal.
HTH
I am working on a PHP project, so I am not using Visual Studio, however the company I work at is mostly a .NET shop so we use Team Foundation Server for version control. I can use VS to manually add files to the TFS project but that is a bit cumbersome when I am adding a bunch of new files, I pretty much have to add the file right after I create it so I don't forget.
What I want to know is if there is a way to have TFS pick up a new file added to a directory that is under source control for a project. For instance if I added a few PHP files to the source controlled html directory I would like to be able to just go to check in pending changes in TFS and have the newly added files included in the list. Does anyone know if this is possible? Thanks much!
There's no way to have this happen automatically with TFS 2010 or below. I've seen a video that says they'll be adding this feature for the next release.
In the meantime, you can use Source Control Explorer, then right-click a folder in the left pane and choose "Add Items to Folder". Follow the dialog and you'll be able to add any of the items that haven't previously been added.
I have multiple projects in our solution that is in our TFS 2010 repository. I've added about 5 new projects to this solution in recent days.
I have found that for one of the projects, that the project file itself will not check-in to TFS. All of the artifacts contained in this project are working fine; they are checked in and I can see them in the Team Explorer. But I cannot see the project file in Team Explorer, nor is their an icon next to the project in Solution Explorer that would indicate its checked in status.
Also, clicking on any of the TFS related option in the context menu in Visual Studio results in those options being applied to the file contained in the project, not the actual project itself.
Can this be remedied or do I have to create an entirely new project and add all of the artifacts from the old project back into it?
Your project doesn't have appropriate Source Control Bindings! With the solution open, you'll need to go to File -> Source Control -> Change Source Control to view the bindings for your projects. The failing one probably will show an "Unknown" or not binded status. You can then use that dialog to correct the binding and check in the project file.
Appended Alternate Solution -
Navigate to the Team Explorer -> Source Control and manually add the files using the "Add Items to Folder" menu item.
You can try following steps
1 Unbind the project in "Change Source Control" dialog
2 Refresh project to update source control status
3 Right click the project and click Add the Project to source Control in solution explorer
I was faced with the same issue but the solution is slightly different than those mentioned so far. My project's contents were checked in but the project itself was not. The project's bindings were valid.
In the Team explorer's Source Code Explorer, the project files were greyed out. After a get-latest, TFS opened the Merge Conflicts screen where I could choose to keep the local copy.
After this, the project was part of TFS.