What is TF EXE?

You can use version control commands to do nearly all tasks you can do in Visual Studio, and also several tasks that can’t be done in Visual Studio. You can use the tf.exe tool to run version control commands from a command prompt or within a script.

What is label in TFS?

With labels, you can also apply later changesets to an existing label if there were code changes by simply getting that label and then getting specific changesets and then doing a quick label or creating a brand new label. Labeling is very powerful, convenient to use, and is a part of TFS.

Where is TF EXE in Visual Studio 2019?

Where is tf.exe located?

  1. C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\TeamFoundation\Team Explorer\tf.exe.
  2. C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE\tf.exe.

Where is TF command executed?

If you have created a TF workspace and mapped a local folder to the workspace, then in an command prompt navigate to that folder and run tf commands. (It might be good to add this path C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10\Common7\IDE\ to your PATH evironment variable).

What is TF status?

You can use TF. EXE STATUS to display information about pending changes to items in one or more workspaces. I use this prior to migrations to see what users have files checked-out and locked, and they types of pending changes I’m up against. The utility can give you two outputs: Brief and Detailed.

How do I add a label to a changeset in TFS?

If you right click in source control explorer and select -> find -> find by label, then select your label and click edit, you’ll see a list of all files in the label and the changeset of when they last changed prior to the label changeset.

How do I open the TF command line?

To do so, login to TFS as the administrator user. From the ‘Start’ button, select ‘All programs’ > MS VS 2010 > Visual Studio tools > Visual Studio > Command prompt. You can test a couple of tf.exe commands on this command prompt. Get a list of tf commands by just typing tf /? on the command prompt.

Where is TFS command line?

The tf.exe command line is included in the VSTS agent package in folder externals\vstsom.