This is an older post, but since the only given answer seems “not entirely correct” to me I’d like to answer anyway: I blogged about this (in german) here: blog.nils-andresen.de If you have a local copy, that you want to un-get or un-download like this: simply right-click the folder and then click “Get Specific Version” … Read more
Shelving has many uses. The main ones are: Context Switching: Saving the work on your current task so you can switch to another high priority task. Say you’re working on a new feature, minding your own business, when your boss runs in and says “Ahhh! Bug Bug Bug!” and you have to drop your current … Read more
The is no official way to pass variables from Build to Release. The only way to accomplish this is to store the values in a file (json, xml, yaml, what have you) and attach that as a Build Artifact. That way you can read the file in the release and set the variable again. Martin … Read more
The OAuth mechanism is used against the VSO api at the time of writing this as you’ve seemingly identified. official docs for VSO OAuth tokens here. For on-prem however, the following is required: Via a javascript client (note I’m using jquery for the ajax request here) Since alternative creds or token based auth isn’t available … Read more
For the compilation step, you have a couple of options: You can reference the Microsoft.Net.Compilers NuGet package on a per-project basis to use that version of the compilers. You can install the Microsoft Build Tools package that is part of the VS 2015 CTP package without installing all of VS. However, as @MrHinsh notes, these … Read more
I’ll throw an option in to the ring, it may or may not not be useful to you. If it’s any consolation I’ve been pondering over this one for a while now and haven’t been able to come up with a completely satisfactory solution. It’s a really good question and I’d be very interested in … Read more
According to this blog the solution is (and Yes it worked for me) Close all instances of Visual Studio Open the Task Manager and check if any TFS Services are running. Select each of them and click on End Process Tree (in my case I did not find any of them to End) Browse to … Read more
I just blogged another method here: http://mikehadlow.blogspot.com/2009/06/tfs-build-publishedwebsites-for-exe-and.html but if you can’t be bothered to follow the link, here it is in full: It’s generally good practice to collect all the code under your team’s control in a single uber-solution as described in this Patterns and Practices PDF, Team Development with TFS Guide. If you then … Read more
Here’s what I do in Visual Studio 2012 (Note: I have the TFS Power Tools installed so if you don’t see the described options you may need to install them. http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/b1ef7eb2-e084-4cb8-9bc7-06c3bad9148f ) If you are accessing the Source Control Explorer as a team project administrator (or at least someone with the “Undo other users’ changes” … Read more