Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC)

"Fixing" massive parallel builds on Azure Pipelines with TFVC

Last weekend I helped migrate a client from Team Foundation Server 2017 to Azure DevOps in the cloud. One of the many reasons to migrate was the ability to leverage the hosted pool to do builds and not having to maintain build servers.

Azure DevOps Pipelines

Solving TFVC error TF14067 and Azure Pipelines

When this happens you'll see the following cryptic error message that mentions: A path you are absolutely certain exists; A workspace name that was created minutes before when the build agent initialized; TF14067.

Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC)

Workspace management tips for TFVC

Workspaces are maybe the least understood feature in TFVC (Team Foundation Version Control). They're a great way to isolate different sets of files and changes from TFVC repositories.

Azure DevOps

Connect any version of Visual Studio to Azure DevOps or Azure DevOps Server

Visual Studio has been around for a long time and there are still people developing in Visual Basic 6 or Visual Studio 2008. Even if you're using a more recent IDE, you could need one or more hotfixes and/or service packs.

Azure DevOps

Mimic the XAML build's Output Location option in Build 2015

If you've been using XAML builds in the past, you've probably discovered that, by default, it drops all the outputs of all your projects into one folder called the Binaries Folder. Unless you do anything using a post-build script, the contents of that folder will be copied verbatim to the

Azure DevOps

Manipulating your TFVC repository from Build 2015

Though generally considered a bad practice I crafted two build tasks to manipulate your TFVC repository from the build. You can now edit, delete and add files and check those changes in when you're ready. Before I explain how they work and how you can use them, I need to

Azure DevOps

Access multiple TFVC repositories in a Build 2015 definition

When you have a TFS project collection with many Team Projects, it's a common practice to have a "shared" project containing a collection of commonly used libraries. This library may consist of Checkin policies, Build Activities, MsBuild tasks and Custom MsBuild targets. The alternative used to be to

Team Foundation Server

NDepend 6 offers native integration into TFS 2013

When Patrick Smacchia contacted me a couple of weeks back to look at his new TFS support for NDepend I was very excited. We've integrated NDepend through commandline calls with numerous clients and though that works, it's not very easy to get trend analysis or act upon the findings in

TFVC Checkin Policy

Ask a developer for confirmation in a TFS checkin policy

A TFS checkin policy can normally only be dismissed by overriding the policy. There is no way to selectively allow a user to override one, but not another policy. And there is no way to interact with the user from the Check-in dialog using custom UI other than the message,

Visual Studio 2012

One of my new favorite plugins for Visual Studio and TFS

Today I stumbled upon a new Team Explorer extension for TFS in Visual Studio. It almost immediately made it on my shortlist of things that I need to have on every Visual Studio installation. It's simple, but brilliant. Ok, enough praise :). This extension nests itself into Team Explorer and adds