How to Recover Deleted TFS Files and Folders

MJ Hufford — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:04:47 +0000

I recently went in search for a “how to” regarding file and folder recovery in Microsoft Team Foundation Server. One of our project files was corrupted and removed its reference to an ascx file, but left the .cs and .designer.cs files behind; ultimately breaking the build on our continuous integration server. Google doth continue to rock. I quickly found a solution. It’s relatively easy:

In Visual Studio, click on Tools -> Options -> (make sure the “show all items” check box is checked) -> Source Control -> Visual Studio Team Foundation Server
Check the “Show deleted items in the Source Control Explorer” check box
Click “OK”
In Team Explorer, open Source Control
Then just right-click and click “Undelete” -> sooooo not a real word

Enjoy!

Listing checked-out files in Team Foundation Server 2008 (TFS)

MJ Hufford — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:20:59 +0000

I needed a list of all checked-out files in TFS today. This page came in handy! Thanks Clay! Here’s what he had to say (slightly modified for VS 2008)

You can get a complete list of checked out files by using the tf.exe command line tool found in: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9\Common7\IDE or C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9\Common7\IDE for you 64 bitters.

All checked out files in $/MyProject:

tf.exe status $/MyProject /user:* /s:http://MyTfs:8080 /recursive

All files checked out to Mark:

tf.exe status /user:mark /s:http://MyTfs:8080

You can write the output to a file:

tf.exe status /user:* /s:http://MyTfs:8080 > c:\tfsCheckedOut.txt

I also created this little batch file that will automatically output results to your desktop. It’s very simplistic, but saves time having to mess with the command prompt. Edit with your favorite text editor, save, and away you go.

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How to Recover Deleted TFS Files and Folders

Listing checked-out files in Team Foundation Server 2008 (TFS)