TFS Tricks to remember

A few things I learned about TFS painfully this week.


1. TFS in VS2013 logs to the output window, it logs important things that you'd expect it to popup in warning dialogs, so watch the window.


2. TFS will not do a get latest if the files have pending adds... It just skips them and logs it in the output window.


3. To force a get all, you have to go to the get specific version and check both the check boxes, get selected version is not available in the obvious way, you have to dig for it


Go to Source control window,
Click on rot folder (i.e. solution folder) you want to do the get from
Right click,
Choose Get Specific Version
Check both overwrite check boxes


This is the equivalent of a get with force all in StarTeam.