Inline Images not showing for Work Items in Visual Studio with 401 unauthorized error

To fix this, right click the broken image link from the Visual studio work item description pane, then copy the link from the properties dialog (it looks like a label, but you can select all on it by right mouse clicking).

Then simply copy and paste that into Internet Explorer bar, and when prompted enter your credentials.

Next, back in Visual Studio, just click the refresh work item button on the header of the work item window, and do this once for each in line image in the description.

Visual Studio Work Item Images broken

The case of the missing image…

Turns out this was due to my old windows credentials being cached on the tfs server credentials cache.

To fix this, I logged onto the tfs server directly via my admin account and updated the credentials there in the windows credentials manager.

Also ran fiddler in the background and cleared the winnet cache as well

Then it refresh a few times on the work item ticket back in visual studio, and hey presto they are all showing again.

Setting up the task board in TFS

First ensure that you have set up the backlog iteration, to be one above the iteration path for your sprint items, and then check the items for your sprint iteration here

http://tfs.com:8080/tfs/DefaultCollection/TeamProjectName/_admin/_iterations

Then use this link to get to the task board

http://tfs.com:8080/tfs/DefaultCollection/TeamProjectName/_backlogs/TaskBoard/#_a=requirements

Unshelving from one branch to another in TFS

 

This works fine…

tfpt unshelve /migrate /source:$/MyProject/Fb3.9.8 /target:$/MyProject/Main

But put quotes round and it does NOT work

tfpt unshelve /migrate /source:"$/MyProject/Fb3.9.8" /target:"$/MyProject/Main"

Further information can be found here…

http://geekswithblogs.net/TarunArora/archive/2011/06/06/unshelve-shelveset-created-from-one-branch-to-another.aspx

TFS file date and time

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15230328/timestamp-when-getting-latest-from-tfs-and-does-it-matter

The case of the disappearing TFS task board

So after wondering where all our tasks had disappeared to, it turns out that someone had changed the default Area path, and ticked it in the _admin/_areas section of the portal.

This has the knock on affect of removing any items from the task board that are not under ticked area paths, hence the stuff that was in our task board disappeared, even though the items were all still there in TFS and accessible via team explorer.

Work Item finding with advanced search criteria in Visual Studio 2013

Hi guys

Something that's proving very useful to me now is the fact that you can use advanced search functionality in the quick search box in Visual Studio 2013 to find tickets that you're after.

Example 1,

1. Hit Ctrl+# to enter the team explorer search box

2. Drop down the arrow, and click the assigned to

3. Hit enter

This will then find all the work items assigned to you by default, although you can change the name to someone else to see what they're working on e.g.

Example 2 ,

1. Hit Ctrl+# to enter the team explorer search box

2. Type "Stack Rank":3.75

3. Hit Enter

You'll then get back all items where the stack rank is equal to 3.75

Other search examples as follows:

For all work items that have been changed on a given date

"Changed Date":2015-07-14

For all work items authorized by someone

"Authorized As":"Name Here"

For all bugs changed today

T:"Bug" "Changed Date":2015-01-14

For all items that you uploaded to TFS today

"Authorized As":"@Me" "Changed Date":2015-07-14

That last one is particularly useful, if you've just forgotten the task number you checked in and closed

TFS Http 404 not found error

If you get an HTTP 404 not found error when connecting to TFS

Delete all the files in this folder

%userprofile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Team Foundation\4.0\Cache

You also may receive an error message in the VS 2013 output window, reading as follows...

We were unable to automatically populate your Visual Studio Online accounts.

The following error was encountered: One or more errors occurred.TF205020: Could not connect to server ‘tfs.russellreynolds.com\DefaultCollection’. This server was used in your last session, but it might be offline or unreachable. Confirm that the server is available on the network. To attempt to connect again, or to a different server, click ‘Connect To Team Foundation Server’ in Team Explorer or the Team menu.

The server returned the following error: HTTP code 404: Not Found

How to find all your shelve sets in Visual Studio 2013

The Visual Studio 2013 IDE will by default only list the first 100 shelve sets that you have under your name.

To find all shelve sets for every developer, you can change the name filter to *

To find all the shelve sets for yourself, you can change the filter text box to *, and then hit Enter. This will then list all the shelve sets that you have not just the first 100 of them.

Migrating a shelve set to another branch

Use the following command from Visual studio team foundation server power tools

http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/f017b10c-02b4-4d6d-9845-58a06545627f

tfpt.exe unshelve "shelvesetnamehere" /migrate /source:"$/Main" /target:"$/Branch"

Unshelving just the items you want in VS2013

Say you have a large shelve set and you only want to unshelve certain file types from that shelve set, like the project references changes you've made.

1. Find your shelve set
2. Open it in VS2013
3. In the filter box type *.csproj
4. Select all in the results and then right click
5. Choose Exclude unselected from the context menu
   
6. Unshelve the resulting items, which should just be the csproj files.
   

TFS work item query shortcuts

Just discovered this little gem today, via some help from the newer VS 2013 Ctrl+# work item search box. Turns out in VS2010 work item tracking box, you can enter the short cuts of A: C: T:  and S: to filter on Assigned To, Created By, State and Work Item Type

E.g. all my bugs... is just A:@Me T:Bug

GOTCHA: The resurrection of TFS source control folders

Today we found something very interesting with Team Foundation Server (TFS) source control folder workflow. A colleague of mine had deleted a source control folder from TFS source control, but as I hadn't got latest on the parent folder, I was not aware that he had done this.

I was then able to add a script to this deleted folder, check in my change, and this had the implicit effect of undeleting the folder that my colleague wanted removed.

One to watch out for in case you don't always do a full get latest from the route of your source control project.

Team foundation server power tools

Had completely forgotten about these handy little tools that helps you figure out what your team members are up to in source control…

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/bb980963.aspx

This one, http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/c255a1e4-04ba-4f68-8f4e-cd473d6b971f,  for example allows you to see your team members in team explorer, and run queries against them. Didn't even realise there was a status search built into source control until I found this option this morning.

How to query the TFS 2010 Source control database (TFSWarehouse) using TSQL

Found this blog useful today, when a colleague of mine asked how he can produce a report of all the changes from members of his team on their database scripts in TFS source control...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/834107/tfs-query-in-visual-studio-to-get-all-check-ins

Something like this example was what we ended up using ...

USE [Tfs_DefaultCollection]  

SELECT distinct cs.CreationDate, cs.[ChangeSetId], c.DisplayPart, cs.[Comment] , v.[FullPath]
from [tbl_ChangeSet] AS cs
left outer JOIN [tbl_Identity] AS i ON cs.[OwnerId] = i.[IdentityId]
left outer JOIN [Constants] AS c ON i.[TeamFoundationId] = c.[TeamFoundationId]
left outer join dbo.tbl_Version as v on v.Versionfrom = cs.ChangeSetId
WHERE creationdate > '04/12/2012'
and (v.FullPath like '%\Database%')
ORDER BY cs.[CreationDate] desc

Using Beyond Compare with TFS source compare

http://www.scootersoftware.com/support.php?zz=kb_vcs#tfs

TEAM FOUNDATION SERVER (TFS)

Diff

1. In Visual Studio Choose Options from the Tools menu.
2. Expand Source Control in the treeview.
3. Click Visual Studio Team Foundation Server in the treeview.
4. Click the Configure User Tools button.
5. Click the Add button.
6. Enter ".*" in the Extension edit.
7. Choose Compare in the Operation combobox.
8. Enter the path to BComp.exe in the Command edit.
9. In the Arguments edit, use:
   %1 %2 /title1=%6 /title2=%7

3-way Merge (v3 Pro)

1. Follow steps 1-6 above.
2. Choose Merge in the Operation combobox.
3. Enter the path to BComp.exe in the Command edit.
4. In the Arguments edit, use:
   %1 %2 %3 %4 /title1=%6 /title2=%7 /title3=%8 /title4=%9

2-way Merge (v3 Std, v2)

Use the same steps as the 3-way merge above, but use the command line:
%1 %2 /savetarget=%4 /title1=%6 /title2=%7

Using Beyond compare with TFS

If you need to remember the settings to set your external tools in visual studio to use beyond compare then follow the steps here under the heading MICROSOFT TEAM FOUNDATION SERVER (TFS)

http://www.scootersoftware.com/support.php?zz=kb_vcs

Diff

1. In Visual Studio Choose Options from the Tools menu.
2. Expand Source Control in the treeview.
3. Click Visual Studio Team Foundation Server in the treeview.
4. Click the Configure User Tools button.
5. Click the Add button.
6. Enter ".*" in the Extension edit.
7. Choose Compare in the Operation combobox.
8. Enter the path to BComp.exe in the Command edit.
9. In the Arguments edit, use:
   %1 %2 /title1=%6 /title2=%7

3-way Merge (v3 Pro)

1. Follow steps 1-6 above.
2. Choose Merge in the Operation combobox.
3. Enter the path to BComp.exe in the Command edit.
4. In the Arguments edit, use:
   %1 %2 %3 %4 /title1=%6 /title2=%7 /title3=%8 /title4=%9

2-way Merge (v3 Std, v2)

Use the same steps as the 3-way merge above, but use the command line:
%1 %2 /savetarget=%4 /title1=%6 /title2=%7