Whenever I create a new team project in TFS2012 I get a wiki.htm file appear in the shared documents folder (it is blank).
What do people do with it?
Is there something on the sharepoint portal that will produce it automatically or is it a something where you just add your own HTML when required?
it's a wiki file, you can update it as you would with any other type of wiki file. if you don't add any data to it, it will remain empty.
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I created a folder called BatchFiles in TFS for an SSIS project, but the folder will not show in the solution explorer. I've also noticed that .dtproj file will not show, even if I click the "Show All Files" button on top. Is there any way to show the new folder I created in solution explorer? Also will the .dtproj file always be hidden?
Add new item directly to the project does this:
Adding an existing item option automatically dumped it in Miscellaneous Folder, that looks like this:
Seems like those existing items are not being considered as project files but as misc files when being opened from solution explorer.
This seems to be an expected behavior
Any files in the dialogue box which does not have extension such as
dtsx or config .Selecting these files will automatically place them in
Miscellaneous folder
How to Add a File to the SSIS Project Miscellaneous Folder
If the file exists on disk (physically in the folder) but does not show in the solution then it is likely that the file was checked in, but the modification to the solution was not. And for BatchFiles folder, you just add them in the source control explorer. That's why there are not the in the solution explorer.
Also will the .dtproj file always be hidden?
Seems to be so. I have also reproduced and got the same behavior like this. Sorry, not very familiar with SSIS project. But according to some tutorials in google such as this
Blog : Building your SSIS project in Azure DevOps It not appears, but we also able to build it through Azure DevOps.
Unlike the other projects, new files in the database project (.sqlproj) are not available while trying to check-in from solution explorer. I can able to see the changed files but not new files.
Every time I add new files, I need to go to Source control explorer and look for "Add Items to folder" option.
It messes when there are few changed files and few added files. We will check-in from solution explorer and after some time the production team will curse us for not including the files.
Anyone facing the same? Do I miss anything?
I am working with ASP.NET C# MVC 5.
.mdf/.ldf files in App_Data do not appear on Pending Changes in team explorer. Therefore I can't check them into TFS(visual studio online). I've tried recreating the project a few times and none worked. What might be the cause for this?
Go to Team Explorer and locate Excluded Changes and you should find it excluded. Right click the App_Data folder and include it.
But you might want to reconsider including the database files. As you're developing and testing, every little database interaction will trigger a change and most of those are trivial. Also, if someone else is working on this project, they may not want your database file to overwrite theirs when they Get Latest Version.
If you're using Entity Framework Code-First, the database is automatically generated when you build the project I believe, otherwise you just run the Update-Database command to do it. This lets everyone collaborating have their own local database file to work with. You can also utilize migrations to make updates to the database structure. If you want the database to be generated with pre-populated data, you should utilize the Seed method.
This is a general question. As already answered by 'Ty Morrow' in above comment there is an initial Seed Method in Entity Framework which ensures that all values are inserted. However there are many scenarios that you also need to work with the latest added / removed DB entries not present in the seed method.
Please perform the following steps to ensure that your data directory file is included in the source control.
Click App_Data folder and on encircled toolbar click on Show All Files as shown below in the snapshot
Right Click on your MDF (Data Source) File and click on Include in Project
Right Click again on your MDF File and click on Include in Source Control
Simply Check in the file by Right Clicking on root project folder link and file show be now part of Source Control
I have a core project and several sub projects. I link to files in the core project for the sub ones. I righted clicked my csproj and said existing file > add > link. Here is how my project looks:
Here is a picture of my Windows Explorer:
When I check in, I receive this error:
Could not find file C:\Users\joe_a84\Documents\JMASoftware\QuickBooks\Main\Source\Platform Support\NOP\Source\Versions\nop265\Nop265\Module\QuickBooksSettings.cs
The file does not exist there because it is linked. How can I tell TFS that it's a linked file?
There is the following question which states that symbolic links are not supported in TFS 2008 or TFS 2010. Symbolic links in TFS 2010 Source Control?
However, I did find the following ancient blog post which seems to show how to do it for TFS 2005: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlee/archive/2006/07/20/sharing-files-in-team-foundation-server.aspx
That said I would highly recommend that you simply don't do this.
If you really need to share a file between projects then you should be using the branching functionality built into TFS. Typically you don't want just a single code file due to namespace and assembly generation concerns. It is much cleaner, and certainly easier to maintain, by having a separate project for those artifacts that are passed around. This way you either branch the entire assembly project; or just refer to it in it's normal place.
This is a local file level linking by another project. There is only one file at a specific subfolder. Other projects can link to the file via this approach. The problem with this approach is that from TFS viewpoint, you cannot tell if a file is shared by other projects. A good practice will be to keep such files in separate folder with name like Common or Shared etc.
People who have been using File linking across branches in Source Control would have to change their approach quite differently.
Linking between files in TFS is pretty simple. You just open the "Add existing item" dialog and search for the file you want to link in your local workspace. If you would click "Add" now Visual Studio would create a copy of the file in your projects directory. What you do instead is to choose the other option (you have a little drop down menu on the button) and add the item as a link. Thats it.
I faced the same problem. I just did undo on the file which was showing this error in the TFS Pending Changes window and checked-in. This undo did not remove the link that was added in the project. Make sure you do not undo the project file.
I am trying to add a new work item type. Where the heck are the XML files that define these?
I don't see them in solution explorer, they aren't in the file system on the TFS server, so where the heck are they?
I am following instructions from Microsoft but it doesn't say where to look
You get these from Team > Team Foundation Server Settings -> Process Template Manager, then download the template you want. Then you'll find all the WITs in there. You can edit and create new ones, then upload the changed template. Just be careful to rename the process template (inside process.xml file).
Use WitAdmin to alter existing project WITs. Use this method above for future projects.
Do you have your XML and are trying to deploy it? Reading the link you posted, it looks like you deploy the work item types by using the witadmin utility. The link to instructions to witadmin is below and under the references section of the instructions you gave a link to.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd312129.aspx