tfs2013

I have an Excel worksheet with hundreds of TFS 2013 Work Item IDs populating both Column A and Column B. For illustrative purposes, let's just say I have the following: Row 1 to Row 100 of Column A: Populated with the Work Item IDs of 100 Bug Work Items Row 1 - Row 100 of Column B populated with the Work Item IDs of 100 Task Work Items. What I'd like to do is have an automated process, e.g. a script that iterates through the hundred rows of my Excel spreadsheet and link the work item IDs in Column A with the corresponding work item IDs in Column B on the same row, e.g. link the work items

We use company Team Foundation Server 2013 for source code and task management. Is there a way how can I manipulate work items within backlog over REST API? Our project is accessible via web url: https://tfs.company.com/tfs/ProjectCollection/Project I have found this: https://tfsodata.visualstudio.com/ but this seems to work only for projects within https://visualstudio.com . I would appreciate also some examples. Thanks! Richard Banks Not in any officially supported manner. That said, it doesn't take too much exploring to see that some of the APIs are already present in TFS 2013 already. For

As the resident TFS admin, on occasion I am asked to undo a checkout (usually a lock) that a user has on a certain file checked into source control. How do you undo another user's checkout? brett rogers There are at least 2 different ways to do this: Command Line There is a command-line utility called Tf.exe that comes with Team Explorer. Find the documentation here . It can be accessed by launching a Visual Studio Command Prompt window. The syntax of the command is: tf undo [/workspace:workspacename[;workspaceowner]] [/server:servername] [/recursive] itemspec [/noprompt] For one file tf undo

Does somebody know if it is possible to Copy files from TFS (2013 Update 2) source control to a specific folder on your computer? Let's say I have the server path $/BuildTemplate2013/BuildProcessSource and I want all the files of that directory to be copied/downloaded to C:\destinationDir with PowerShell. Is that possible? I have the TFS 2013 Update 2 Power tools installed but I can't find any command for that... I've created a PowerShell script that connects to the TFS server with the TFS assemblies. I then loop through the files on the server (in a specific path) and download it recursively.

I deleted some files and some folders in TFS. Many check in's later I found out that I need the deleted functionality back in my project. How can I restore the deleted files and folders? In Team Explorer (in Visual Studio): Tools | Options | Source Control | Visual Studio Team Foundation Server and select Show Deleted Items... Then in source control explorer you'll see the items greyed out. You can right click on them and Undelete. (This option will only be available if they, after the undelete, will be included in your current workspace). NB. in newer versions of Visual Studio (eg. 2013)

I'm creating a work item migration application from "something" to TFS 2013, and I want to have the TFS work items to be in corresponding workflow states as in source system. For instance, if the source work item is in "Closed" state, I want it to be in "Done" state in TFS. I have followed advises in this article , which suggests to set BypassRules property of the WorkItemStore object to true in order to be able to set CreatedDate field. I suppose, the same applies to changing the workflow state, as it also requires bypassing rules. So, I tried the following: // obtain collection and