Video: How Do I: Create and Manage Workspaces Using Team Foundation Server Control?

Presented:Richard Hundhausen

In this lesson, Richard Hundhausen demonstrates creating, managing, and deleting workspaces, which are the local versions of the files and folders on a server.

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A monitor that has been a principal consultant with accessing a Microsoft regional Director and Visual Studio team system MVP in this lesson look at creating and managing workspaces for works they have a local copy of the files and folders on the server plus any changes you ve made locally to have when you add edit delete and rename or otherwise change initial phone via your changes are isolated in your workspace or you can make and test your changes your pending changes are committed to the server become available to other users outside the workspace for which I have before you can add files to team foundation version control or get in and check them out you need to create a workspace oftentimes Visual Studio will credit default workspace with the same name as your computer people aren t aware have little to demonstration of creating and managing workspace and Visual Studio got to team projects one s adventure Works and what is Kinko s

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And if we take a look at our workspaces under source control you ll see we currently have no workspaces to find and this is how most new installations but if you start working with the studio for while they understand the possible workspace you may find a single workspace here with an integer computer running out of workspace number is a kind of easy approach in which his great one big goober workspace and Apple or team projects and their wonderful projects in order to win here now for source control folder adventure Works to a local folder here which will create old CU drive and will screw to folder your code projects and this is normally how I d like to do it like in a single team projects to the proper folder projects and projects

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Conduce ignition at the root year old teen projects I don t recommend this book to people who don t want to workspace will screamed one massive workspace roots of personal control folder in the multiproject underneath their will become folders underneath your C4 products in particular have voted in previous and close it in all of source control and prevention Works rhetoric until so these are great out because I have no a nothing downloading in fact there are no files to download a register his latest version of the roots and nobody seems to regard her because yes I have the latest versions of my workspace if I bring up by Explorer view and going to projects ill suited to the operation to screw these high level folders for Dutch work schedules will slide in critical projects in each one of these

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Products will create a couple Visual Basic class libraries and will call this one of the subjects are handled by the letters he projects adventure Works for source control and you ll see your pending changes window we have several files have been added in the frustrations over a bit those who are currently looking at our workspace projects of this drop down won t have anything of interest to you until you start having multiple workspaces is not a simple middle of an object of much interest created a visual projects and what object that only close my solution and will do another project for

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Other team Project blue class library or cold data access and defensive or sure this will go in and tells had the potential to same thing here we ve got several files were about to add the source control under the projects workspace and was included in the project and check that it and close our solution and take a look at source control sort of have a Clinton era got some high level folders for solutions that are projects of her projects with gutter class one files but it exes can for example if the conundrum of Windows Explorer we conceive this folder structures being created as well and here s one of the gotchas working with a

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Space as lots and lots of pending changes in the sale working on my BusinessObjects code under Metrowerks and exchange like I have some new method was before I can actually check in code or were a finish it I might come back over here and have closest solution for much of the work and so severe and open up its code and will add some publics of new vitamin and will save us and will close at solution with God hears actually to pending changes now from multiple team projects I ve got class one currently edit changes for the eventual escape project and one for controls and this is the way you work throughout the day you jump back and forth from different

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Projects making changes you want to organization and one workspace of a 57 were more compartmentalized like you fix the bug you check in the code you want your next task and 81 workplaces is good for you I can recommend an alternate approach would have shared this code in made several changes to several projects this is or is he going to have closes Dallas Fort Worth is a different way it always returns your workspaces are a lot here and make edits change the name change the comments were mapped additional new working folders in several one to many mapping in those one of the options in here for a working folders hopeful outlook folders is a special flag U turn on networking

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Over and says he will do it yet don t get any of the assets outsourced for when this folder sometimes you can use these of her workspace called folders redoing kits for bills in your gifts for some people on the team is going to see everything under source control and actually to cancel this edit or remove this workspace or Studios is ruled under a blue workspace any pending changes you have been there will be lots I was sure to check in my pending changes in public office click okay The tick look out here under my seat products to try something different well I can tell my clients is create a folder structure is consistent across all the developers will teach you now hold homelessness code projects and I d highly recommend hanging a rough root folders see the Visual Studio s default

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Is to create folders underneath see documents and settings slogans have no doubt of your Koran down about 40 characters in Athens the missile of the projects to work on very large pathnames such as database projects in database Professional Edition so I recommend having a baby workspaces folder right off the roots middle in creating and hear high level folders for her evangelist and for your social any other team project like working in a creating one workspace mapping to folder so back to source control workspaces and a great one here and I recommend the name of adventure Works with you for licensable and in the workspaces and inserting projects between to hear the server and hear the local folder by Cindy

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A variation on this might be if you ve got a laptop and a desktop computer development both you might want to name the workspaces at the Schwartz laugh and adventure Works to workbench works best she can keep the different workspaces separate actually sit it on my laptop while talking to my desktop workspace you go back and forth by and this would make one more workspace for pencils and paper but not have a okay closer down with jump over to source control Explorer can only notice here is that we have more than one workspace so he tend a workable mess you throughout the day and you have adventure Works pending changes needed to overcome so so it s not a big deal of this drop in control here choose themselves a workspace and it just goes filed

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org since same of the pending changes when you can choose bedrock on which the Senate confuses people as if you go to the pending changes window and it s fairly narrow here you don t see the problem people don t know to pull down from this little more drop down control here so if you are nice which monitor you hopefully this pending changes Windows nice and wide and you will see this drop down got applied to be working okay to also pending changes and it shows like you are because maybe it s going to eventually the last is this is not as I do recommend this having won one workspace and being able to Boston between substance that is like anything else seems as you plan your workspaces team projects even your local photographs is a commandline utility you can musical you off and you can use the workspace and the workspaces command to get a good a quick way to create the league you qualify properties

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Associate workspaces was a little workplace environment is monitored is a principal consultant with access to a Microsoft regional Director and the Visual Studio team system MVP Beckett

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