I need to open some projects in Terminal frequently and the only way I can easily do that is to open the context menu and select "Open in Terminal".
However, the other three options all have a much easier way to access (as showed in the picture below).
Is it possible to have the option "Open in Terminal" also available on the right of the app so that I don't need to right-click my mouse every time.
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Is it possible for me to run multiple (2) projects at the same time?
I realize that you only have the option of making a single project the 'startup project'.
But I have 2 web projects in my solution, and I need to run both at the same time.
Is the only option opening multiple instances of VS?
Right-Click on your solution (Top-Most node in your Solution
Explorer)
Click on "Properties"
On the right panel, expand
"Common properties", and click on "Startup Project"
Click on "Multiple Startup Projects"
In the "Action" column, select "Start" on the project you want to start
Optionally, you can change the startup order by clicking on a project and moving it with the arrows on the right.
What I do is open another instance of VS and have each project open in the separate VS windows. Then I run both of them.
This saves the hassle of having to deal with changing the settings around.
I need to review many shelvesets using Visual Studio every day. I have added the TfsPendingChanges command to the my toolbar, but the rest of the procedure to access a shelveset (Actions/Find Shelvesets) still feels clumsy. In fact, shelveset review has nothing to do with my own pending changes. And VS11 just made it even one step longer than it already was.
Is there any way to add "Find Shelvesets" in some form directly to a menu or to a toolbar, in Visual Studio 2012?
If you go to right click and then "Customize" on any toolbar, it will bring up a dialog. Press the "Keyboard" button on it, choose File.TfsUnShelvePendingChanges and assign a Hot Key to it. I do believe that the Source Control Explorer window needs to be open and active for your hot key to work.
OR...This may not be exactly what you are looking for, but if you have the Source Control Explorer window open and active, then ALT-F ALT-R ALT-F ALT-F ALT-S will bring up the dialog. That is actually navigating File/Source Control/Find/Find Shelvesets.
The easiest way to work with Shelvesets is to use the new My Work feature. By suspending and resuming work Visual Studio will automatically do all the Shelveset magic for you with a simple drag/drop of the task that you want to have in progress.
The same applies to reviews, Suspend your current work, or create a new temporary workspace, open the Review Request, let it unshelve the changes automatically and when you're done go back to where you were by resuming your previous tasks.
It's really great once you get the hang of it. That it uses Shelvesets under the hood is nice to know, but this way you don't really need to know, it just works.
As for TWA Diff, there've been great improvements with TFS 2012 Update 2 which is almost ready to be released...
If this is only for reviews then maybe Team Web Access would be better for you?
Just navigate to http://:8080/tfs/web/, select team project, then click Source Tab and Find Shelvesets. You can then open each shelveset in new browser window and it will list all changes and allows you to quickly do compare etc.
Command that you are looking for is TfsUnshelvePendingChanges under File.
Right click on any toolbar, click on customize and a dialog will open. Go to 'Commands' tab on the top.
Choose appropriate button out of Menu Bar | Toolbar | Context Menu. Select the desired option under that. My favorite is to add it to Toolbar>Work Item Tracing (toolbar where New Item/Open Item appears).
After choosing from above step appropriately, click on 'New Command'. Then select to File>TfsUnShelvePendingChanges. This will add a shortcut to unshelve changes.
Thanks to #Alex for pointing out the correct command name. Writing here separately for people looking for answers in future.
I can find the shelve button okay, and had shelved changes earlier today, but now I can't seem to find a way to unshelve them! This has left me in quite a predicament!
If this button is in fact missing in the Visual Studio 11 Beta, perhaps there is a console based TFS command I can execute to temporarily accomplish this?
Thanks all, I actually can't find an answer on Google for this either.
Go to Team Explorer, then "Pending Changes", then "Actions", then "Find Shelvesets", then right click on the shelve you want to unshelve, finally "Unshelve".
Also :
File > Source Control > Find > Find Shelvesets
I always used to right-click on the solution and choose "Unshelve". To add this functionality back:
Click on the menu "Tools > Customize". This opens the "Customize" dialog.
Select the "Commands" tab.
Choose the "Context menu" radio button in the "Choose a menu or toolbar to rearrange" section.
Choose "Project and Solution Context Menus | Solution | Source Control" from the drop down.
Click the "Add Command" button. This opens the "Add Command" dialog.
Choose "File" in the "Categories" list.
Choose "TfsUnshelvePendingChanges" in the "Commands" list.
Click the "OK" button to close the "Add Command" dialog.
Use the "Move Down" button to place the new menu item in the proper place.
Click the "Close" button to close the "Customize" dialog.
Generally if you can't find an option among the thousands available in Visual Studio there is a very useful "Quick Launch" (Ctrl-Q) function.
In this case if you type "shelve" it will show you where to find shelvesets.
Just like to add to Nock's answer that you can only see the unshelve option if you open a solution under source control.
You will not see the option if you open a blank solution, regardless if your Visual Studio workspace is connected to Team Foundation or not.
This is how it looks like if you tried unshelving a shelveset in a blank solution (with TFS connected to your Visual Studio workspace and source control all connected), where there isn't an option to unshelve from source control.
This is how it looks like with a solution under source control opened.
Moral of the answer is to open any solution/project you may have that is under the source control which has the shelveset you want to unshelve.
Is is possible to have right-mouse-click entries only appear when my application is running? What I am thinking is that I want people to be able to right-click a file in windows explorer and be able to select an entry "Email this file to technical support", but I need my app to be running in order to do that, so I want the entry to disappear when my app isn't running.
I guess the second part of my question is how to implement that function - i.e. how can I get a right-click menu entry click from Windows Explorer recognised and acted on my my app if the app is already running, or will I have to have a minion app that just passes a message to the main app?
A shell context-menu extension can decide whether to create any menu items easily enough. Change your handling of the IContextMenu.QueryContextMenu method accordingly. (Delphi comes with a sample project for context-menu extensions. Start from there if you don't already have one.)
Another option is to keep the menu item visible all the time. If your application isn't running, then have the menu extension start your program first. Why should the user have to worry about what order to do things?
I have multiple projects in a couple of different workspaces. However, it seems like I can never figure out how to change my current workspace. The result is that files that I have checked out on my machine are shown to be checked out by somebody else and are not accessible.
I'm going to assume you mean "workspace", not "workstation", as your question doesn't quite make sense to me otherwise.
In Visual Studio, go to the Source Control Explorer (View->Other Windows->Source Control Explorer). At the top of the source control explorer window you should have a toolbar with a few buttons. Somewhere on that toolbar (for me it's at the right) there should be a Workspace dropdown. Just select the workspace you want to use from that dropdown.
Are you wanting to change the location of the files on the workstation? If so, here's how I do it:
Open Visual Studio
Open the Source Control Explorer window.
From the Workspace dropdown select "Workspaces..."
The Manage Workspaces dialog should show up.
Select the workspace you want to modify, and click Edit...
You should be able to adjust the folders from here.
First, you should active you workspace window.
choose the window menu
click Source Control Explore.
click Active button.
The Workspace window appears
click the WorkSpace name in Workspace window.
from the popup list choose the Workspace name you want.
In Visual Studio 2013
If you just regret which local folder you choose for a project under version control. Do like follows:
In the Source Control Explorer in the Folders pane
Select the project which local folder destination/mapping you are not pleased with.
Right click. --> Advanced --> Remove mapping.
A window opens: Press the browse button and choose another local folder for the project and then click "Change".
Click on: File -> Source Control -> Advanced -> Workspace and then you can edit or remove the existing mapped locations
I don't entirely understand your question.
Are you saying that files you check out on one machine seems to be unaccessible on another of your machines? I'd say that would be entirely by design, as now you have a file that has local modifications done on one machine, which may or may not be available on your other machines.
When you say checked out by somebody else, what does that mean exactly? How are you verifying this, what are you looking at?
Or do you mean something else? In that case, please elaborate.