patterns & practices: Visual Studio 2005 Team System Guidance

Team System Product Documentation

- J.D. Meier, Jason Taylor, Alex Mackman, Prashant Bansode

This page is a quick index of some of the how tos and walkthroughs provided in the product documentation.

Profiler

• Main starting point

Source Control Documentation Index

Walkthroughs

• Walkthrough: Exploring Team Foundation Source Control
• Walkthrough: Working with Team Foundation Source Control from Command Line
• Walkthrough: Advanced Functionality of Source Control
• Walkthrough: Shelving Source Control Items
• Walkthrough: Customizing Check-in Policies and Notes

Administration

• How to: Control Access to Team Foundation Source Control
• How to: Remove Access to Source Control Files

Team Foundation Source Control

• How to: Configure Team Foundation Source Control to use Proxy Server
• How to: Change Source Control Environment Settings
• How to: Configure Source Control User Tools
• How to: Clean Up Files When Users Leave

Working with Source Control Workspaces

• How to: Create a Workspace
• How to: Add and Remove a Working Folder in a Workspace
• How to: Edit a Workspace
• How to: Cloak and Decloak Folders in a Workspace
• How to: Remove a Workspace

Getting a Local Copy of the Files from the Source Control Server

• How to: Open Solutions and Projects from Source Control
• How to: Get the Source for your Team Project
• How to: Update the Source in your Workspace
• How to: Check Out and Edit Source-Controlled Items

Working with Source Control Files and Folders

• How to: Add Non-Project or Non-Solution Files and Folders to Source Control
• How to: Delete Files and Folders from Source Control
• How to: Move, Rename, and Delete Source-Controlled Files and Folders
• How to: View Source Control File and Folder Properties
• How to: Configure Source Control File Encoding
• How to: View and Manage All Pending Changes in Your Workspace
• How to: View Pending Changes in Other Workspaces
• How to: Undo Pending Changes

Working with Source Control Change Sets

• How to: Find a Changeset
• How to: View Details for Changesets
• How to: Retrieve Old Versions of Files from Changesets

Working with Source Control Shelvesets

• How to: Shelve and Unshelve Pending Changes
• How to: Find a Shelveset
• How to: View Details for Shelvesets
• How to: Delete a Shelveset

Working with Labels

• How to: Apply Labels
• How to: Find Labels
• How to: Edit Labels
• How to: Remove Labels

Working with Source Control Locks

• How to: Lock and Unlock Folders or Files

Adding Projects and Solutions to Source Control

• How to: View and Manage All Pending Changes in Your Workspace
• How to: View Pending Changes in Other Workspaces
• How to: Undo Pending Changes
• How to: View Historical Data
• How to: Identify Source Control Item Status in Solution Explorer
• How to: Add a Project or Solution to Source Control
• How to: Choose an Alternate Mapping for a Solution
• How to: Bind and Unbind Projects and Solutions
• How to: Migrate Source Control Bindings from Visual SourceSafe

Sbumitting Changes to the Source Control Server

• How to: Check In Pending Changes
• How to: Associate Work Items with Changesets
• How to: View Work Item Details from Pending Changes Window
• How to: Associate Check-in Notes with Changesets
• How to: Override a Check-in Policy
• How to: Roll Back a Changeset

Branching and Merging Team Foundation Source Control

• How to: Branch Files and Folders
• How to: Merge Files and Folders
• How to: Associate a File Type with a Merge Tool

Comparing Files in Source Control

• How to: Show Differences between Two Files or File Versions
• How to: Associate a File Type with a Difference Tool

Resolving Conflicts

• How to: Resolve Conflicts

Additional Resources

• Visual Studio Team Foundation Documentation Page
• MSDN Team System Product Documentation Index