tfs2017

In Team Foundation Server we have several child branches and a Trunk branch. But now we need to promote a child branch as the Trunk branch and discard the current Trunk branch. Furthermore, we need to maintain the history of both the previous Trunk branch and the child branch. PS: We cannot merge the current Trunk branch and child branch due to huge conflicts all over the project. Please go through the visual representation as well: Even without knowing the entire context, this doesn't look like a good branching strategy in your environment. You want to reparent to other branch, you must set a

Is there any way to show the parent PBI for a Task Work item under Release in the list under TFS2017? The screenshot below shows two tasks associated with Release-3. Here I wish to be able to display the parent PBI for each of them. Either by expanding them or just by displaying an additional column with link to the parent PBI I appreciate your help Edit: I know that that there is a possibility to create a query on TFS. The problem is that I need to display the information on the parent Work item that are related to a specific Release so the user can use them for reporting. I tried to to

I created a GIT repository on GitHub, then created a TFS Project with Git scm and Agile process template, then I chose Import Repository and specified the GitHub URL. After the TFS Project was created I see an error message in Team Explorer: Access to the registry key 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\15.0_8708a912\WorkItemTracking\TeamMenu\AddWorkItemMru\TFSServer01\XYZProjectCollection\64c06df7-220f-433c-b7d6-6a59426340e1' is denied. I get a msgbox with the same error when I try to create work items. The symptom of the problem is not the root cause; the registry key doesn't

I'm using TFS 2017, and regarding to title I found a term: Incremental build - but, I can not find out where to set it. I tried to add Incremental parameter in ' build parameters' (/p:IncrementalBuild=true) but always got error which says that this is wrong parameter. Is possible to deliver (or build and deliver) only changed files? If you want to have an incremental build. When you add a Visual Studio Build / MSBuild task to build the project, just uncheck the Clean option. Thus it will sync the source and only get the changed files from the second time to build. See Build task Arguments for

In short, the requirement is to verify that our latest released software can be built and then installed after the latest Windows updates and/or other patches were applied. So the build server VM(s) will be configured just for this purpose and the build only needs to run after an update. Since such updates usually are followed with a restart, I am thinking of a server restart event triggering a build and deployment. Does such option exist in TFS 2017? If there is no way to do it through TFS then, I guess, a PowerShell script that runs on startup should work? No such a build-in function to

The project is an MVC website coded and built using VS2017 and (on premises) TFS2017. The Build Definition is currently working and publishing to the staging location upon check-in. The PowerShell script below, derived from David Kittle's website , is being used but it uploads all files every time. I abbreviated the listing using comments to focus on the part of the script for which I'd like to ask for help/guidance. # Setup the FTP connection, destination URL and local source directory # Put the folders and files to upload into $Srcfolders and $SrcFiles # Create destination folders as