TFS and the pain

We have been using TFS (Microsoft Team Foundation System) at work for Source Control for a few months now; we've run into numerous issues none of which I am going to get into now; this post is really just some notes for my future reference.

if you get into real trouble with TFS the following steps should almost definitely get you back to a fresh place

• Start -> Programs -> Visual Studio 2005 Tools -> command line
• tf workspaces
• - this will show you your workspace name; probably the same as your machine
• tf workspaces /remove:*
• - this will remove local system cache of TFS
• tf workspace /delete /server:{servername} {workspacename}
• - this will remove from the server
• - it will prompt you to verify - type in y
• tf workspace /new /server:{servername} {newworkspacename}
• - this will launch the GUI to map the server to your local system
• - server = $/
• - local = C:\TFS
• cd C:\TFS
• tf get
• - pull down all the files

This maps the root of the TFS server to C:\TFS, you may of course want it mapped to another location on your drive.

Check out tf command on msdn