I'm trying to delete some dummy test cases and user stories and I found the official doc to do that. Seems I need to use a cli tool called witadmin.
They mention an incorrect path to that tool. I have Visual Studio 2017 installed and found it at:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\TeamFoundation\Team Explorer
Then I tried to run this command, which tells which work items to delete from which collection.
.\witadmin.exe destroywi /collection:https://<ORGANIZATION>.visualstudio.com/<PROJECT> /id:405,440,403
A dialog box appeared for me to login, I filled with my user and pass and got this error after a while:
TF31002: Unable to connect to this Team Foundation Server: https://ORG.visualstudio.com/PROJ.
Team Foundation Server Url: https://ORG.visualstudio.com/PROJ.
Possible reasons for failure include:
- The name, port number, or protocol for the Team Foundation Server is incorrect.
- The Team Foundation Server is offline.
- The password has expired or is incorrect.
Technical information (for administrator):
The remote server returned an error: (404) Not Found.
The pass is correct, the server is online. So it can be only the TFS name. What should also be correct, right? I used the same URL of the project. I also tried adding /defaultcollection but then I was unable to pass the login dialog.
I saw this other question suggesting that "you need to have TFS Admin permissions" -- which I don't have.
Any ideas? Should I give up and change the state of the items to "Removed"?
Refer to these steps to permanently delete work items:
Go to Work page
Right click a work item > Delete
Click Recycle Bin button
Right click a work item > permanently delete
Delete work item via witadmin tool:
witadmin destroywi /collection: https://ORG.visualstudio.com /id:405,440,403
More information, you can refer to: Delete work items
There's no need to use WITADMIN for this. If you have the "Delete work items" permission, you can drag and drop work items into a Recycle Bin and delete them from there.
With WITADMIN, you shouldn't include the project in the path.
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My objective is to get the files in the TFS into my local computer.
The computer I am using has previously been used by someone else, which I assume is the root of my problem.
I connect to the server, and in Source Control Explorer I find the folder that I want to download. I right click it, and a popup with the following pops up:
Source Control Explorer
All files are up to date.
No files were updated because the requested file versions were previously downloaded.
To force an update, use the "Get Specific Version" command with the "Overwrite all..." option checked.
Ok, so I do this, as is also suggested in this question on StackOverflow. It gives exactly the same result. I tried all different combinations of checking and unchecking the boxes.
I also tried to delete the workspace, and cleared the caches for Visual Studio and Team Foundation.
What should I do?
Problem solved.
I was not yet added to my team on the Team Foundation site.
Wierd that I could still see all the code.
I have a project in Team Foundation Server. Every Time I try to either check out and check files in I get the following error.
Team Foundation Error
TF10121: The patch is not found or not supported. Type or select a different path.
I am running from the web based Version of TFS and i am using Visual Studio 2013.
Any one any idea how to fix this pop up its not allowing me to check items in.
Please check your workspace mapping, to what disk path it is mapped. Quick way to do this is to fire up VS 2013, Open "Source Control Explorer" and navigate to the SLN file. Check if it provides a path or says "Not mapped" on top. If it is mapped, try clicking on the path's link and open it.
So far I was working my my project myself using Visual Studio Team Services using VS 2012, everything was good. Now I have added another user for my project and things are NOT working as I expected, below are my basic questions.
After my developer is done adding/editing files, does he needs to tell me the ChangeSet # to refer to? so I can get his Check-in's?
How Can I see What files he modified/Added? And is there a way I can get only the changes I want from the user instead of getting his/her entire changeset/files?
"Get Latest Version" does not really gets me the Latest Version of files which my developer modified.
See below answers:
After my developer is done adding/editing files, does he needs to tell me the ChangeSet # to refer to? so I can get his Check-in's?
--> He doesn't need to give you Changeset# to get latest(his check-ins). You can go to Team Explorer --> Source Control Explorer and then right click on your project and select "View History" to look at all the changes done to the project. Do you see his changes in the history? If yes then "Get Latest Version" should work. Sometimes what happens if you try to get latest version in Visual Studio Solution and if the files changed are not part of solution you won't get those files. In those cases you need to get latest from Source Control Explorer.
How Can I see What files he modified/Added? And is there a way I can get only the changes I want from the user instead of getting his/her entire changeset/files?
--> If you double click on the changeset after following the above steps to go to View History you will see all the files changed. If you want to get only few files from a check-in you will have to get the latest at file/folder level instead of getting it at project level. i.e. Find out all the files changed using above method and then go to individual files/folders in the Source Control Explorer to get latest.
I want to use a free tfs account for a sample project. So i created a free account on visualstudio.com and created 2 collections. And i want delete one them but i cannot delete it.
There is no any members in the collection. It doesn't allow me to delete. As you see on the screenshot, delete button is disabled. Also Is there any way that if i've an admin account, is possible to change or delete collections from visual studio?
I'm not sure how/if it applies to free TFS versions, but the following link shows how to delete Team Project Collections in general. Looks like doing it via command line tool is the way to go.
https://rules.ssw.com.au/do-you-know-how-to-delete-a-team-project-collection
Here is the main part:
On TFS server, open Administrative Command Prompt and change to TFS Tools Directory.
%programfiles%\microsoft team foundation server[versionnumber]\tools
Type the command:
TFSConfig Collection /delete /collectionName:[COLLECTION NAME]
You're mixing collections and team projects. You cannot create a collection in Team Foundation Service as of now. That may or may not change in the future. When you sign up, there is one collection created for you and that one will contain your team projects and you will need to live with that one. If you have a need to have another collection then you can sign up under another account. You can however delete team projects but not from the web UI. You will need to use the command line tool DaveShaw gave a link for. You can also check out the blog post below:
How to delete a team project from Team Foundation Service (tfs.visualstudio.com)
You look like you are trying to deleted a "Team" from a "Team Project"? You have to have at least one "Team" in a "Team Project", and that will have the same name as the "Team Project".
If you are wanting to delete the entire "Team Project" (containing all the Work Items, Source, Builds, etc), you can do it using the tfsdeleteproject command line tool.
Even we had similar issue. Unfortunately we had deleted a Collection DB without Stopping and Detaching the collection from TFS admin console in TFS 2018. Later we tried to detach the collection, but no luck. Initially we had ignored this issue since it was test TFS collection and that too in QA server. Later during up-gradation to Azure DevOps 2019 server we faced issue with Existing Deployment option. we couldn't complete the upgradation. we followed below steps to fix the issue:
**1. Restored the VM/QA TFS server with VM snapshot backup created before upgradation.
Run below command to remove the deleted collection from TFS Config DB.
"TFSConfig Collection /delete /collectionName:[COLLECTION NAME]"
Stop TFS services and done upgradation to Azure DevOps Server 2019 successfully.**
I am new to TFS. I checked out a folder from TFS using Visual Studio and then deleted bunch of files/added couple of files within that folder using windows explorer (actually I didn't do it, but that folder has third party libraries and I used an installer which made all these changes).
Now if I go to Visual Studio and try to check in that folder, I am getting this error:
Check in: Operation not performed
Could not find file : /ThirdPartyFolder/aDeletedFile.aspx
I tried to follow the solution proposed in this post, but that didn't work out:
http://www.woodwardweb.com/tfs_top_tip/tfs_top_tip_11.html
When I do 'Get Specific Version' and specified 'change set 1', it doesn't show the deleted files in red as it does in the screenshot of that blog post. Also, when I click OK, it shows the Pending Changes-Conflicts window with all the files that got deleted. Even though I selected "Keep Local Version", when I try to check in, I am getting the same error again.
Is there a way in TFS to take what is in my local version and over write what is in the server with my local version files?
I have done similar operations using Subversion, and this has never been a problem. Hopefully someone will let me know how to achieve this in TFS.
Team Foundation Server requires that you explicitly pend changes for these files - if you delete a file locally, this does not explicitly pend a delete against Team Foundation Server. This is actually a useful feature - the server optimizes the data it sends you based on its knowledge of your local filesystem. That is to say, if you say "get latest", it knows your current versions and will only deliver the changes. If you're working with very large projects, this can be very efficient.
However, when other programs decide to make changes without pending the changes to the server, things can get a bit confused. Fortunately, TFS has the ability to detect changes that were made outside without explicitly pending those changes. You can use the "return online" capabilities of your TFS client.
You'll need the Team Foundation Server Power Tools installed, then you can simply run: tfpt online to detect those changes and select which ones to pend to the server.
(VS2012) Select the missing files from TFS "Check In" list and then right click on them and click on "Undo Changes" to exclude them from the list of "Check In"s forever.
This is one of the major differences between svn and tfs. Svn is somehow more integrated with windows shell and every change in your working folder will affect the server on commit. I propose you to perform any move, delete and rename actions within tfs UI, not from shell.