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Team Foundation Server (TFS) is the on-premises version of Azure DevOps, providing Git and version control hosting, continuous integration, agile planning (issues, Kanban, Scrum, dashboards) and release management for continuous delivery to the cloud and on-premises.

TFS provides a set of collaborative software development tools that integrate with your existing IDE or editor, enabling your cross-functional team to work effectively on software projects of all sizes. TFS combines activities such as Source Control Management, Work Item Tracking, Project Management, Build Management, and Reporting into a single product with strong integration points to the Visual Studio and Microsoft Office product lines. Find out more here.

Additionally, the rich API and extensibility points of TFS allows for custom applications and plug-ins to be created to customize TFS beyond the standard clients and server actions.

TFS and VSTS are highly related, sharing the same code base and most features, with the differentiator being TFS is the on-premise version, while VSTS is the hosted, software-as-a-service offering. Upcoming TFS features are usually made available in VSTS before being released in a quarterly update.

Looking to migrate from TFS to VSTS?

Move from TFS to VSTS and bring your data along. The TFS Database Import Service can help make your move to the cloud a reality! Follow the step by step migration guide to import your entire TFS database so your team can always be on the latest version in VSTS and take advantage of the many developer services available with VSTS. Find out more here.

Tag Usage

It is recommended to use the tag along with the specific product area tags:

  • : work items, boards and sprint planning
  • : continuous integration build in TFS
  • : migrating from TFS to VSTS
  • : Team Foundation Version Control, the centralized version control system
  • : Git repositories in Team Foundation Server

Also see the tag if you're using Visual Studio Team Services instead of the on-premises .

Other resources

We have channels that you can also voice your concerns, FAQs, documentation and submit an idea:

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Build number Format in TFS

I want to include the version number of a specific assembly in my Build defintion number format, for example, instead of having the default [$(BuildDefinitionName)$(Date:yyyyMMdd)$(Rev:.r)] i want to have something like…
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Dependency management with TFS 2010

What is the best way to manage dependencies with TFS 2010 ? EDIT: I would like to know if there is a system such as Maven or NuGet which allows to easily manage dependencies of .dll (externals or created by our team) inside TFS 2010. However we face…
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Stop Visual studio Auto-selecting files in Pending Changes after checkin with TFS

I use the Pending Changes window in Visual Studio 2010 to manage my files and to checkin with TFS. My problem is that I will often be working on something and have files checked out then go onto something else, and then something else etc.... I have…
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Building electron linux distro : The SUID sandbox helper binary was found, but is not configured correctly

I am generating electron distro for linux. This is how the app is built This is how app is built in packge.json "builderForLinx": "electron-packager --out linx64 --overwrite --platform linux --appname myApp --asar" this app structure myApp ->…
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Why does my TFS workspace path keep remapping itself?

We're using Visual Studio 2008/TFS 2008. We have a small team of developers and for some reason, periodically, when any of us "Get Latest," one of our paths remaps to a different path on it's own. This causes the "Get Latest" to start deleting…
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How to find build event output in TFS build

We have a solution with a lot of projects. One of those projects contains a Visual Studio pre-build event, that auto-generates all code files used in that project. This works rather well on our local machines. However building it using TFS build it…
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VS2010 T4 auto checkout of generated files from TFS fails

I'm trying to use such simple scheme in my project: Item.cs -> this contains c# partial class with simple entity properties. It has set also property "Custom Tool: T4ScriptFileGenerator" so it attaches "grouped" file Item.tt to it. Wich on its way…
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How to check files against TFS without getting latest?

While reconciling an old solution I have been getting historical file versions from TFS without checking out. That is, for a bunch of files in my solution I did "Show History" > "Get This Version" Now I have all the mix-and-match of historical…
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TFS WorkItem Layout problem

I'm customizing a TFS Work Item Type, adding a 'Business Description' HTML Field, but I cannot get the Layout right:
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Where should you store 3rd party assemblies?

Okay, so we have a rather large solution with about 8 different projects inside it. Each of these projects depend on various different 3rd party assemblies. This solution is in the trunk branch of source control. We also have about 5 different…
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How would someone who is not the part of windows group or active directory access the TFS projects?

I have configured TFS on my live server which is in our office premises. Right now, we can access it i.e. windows domain users/active directory users but when I give my user name password to someone out of our office premises and ask him to connect…
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npm install from tfs feed (on build process) give error: Unable to authenticate

We have our own npm package and a project that uses it, I want to publish it to a tfs feed - repository and install it from there instead of from a physical file. I published the package to the feed from my development machine, and I changed the…
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TFS 2010 Team Build - rename a file

As part of my TFS 2010 team build, I'm trying to copy a configuration file from a network location to the output folder where the build goes to. Using xcopy as an invoke process task, I've successfully gotten it all working EXCEPT that I want to…
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How to add a new tab in Azure DevOps build result to show HTML content?

I need to display HTML content in a new tab in the build summary of an Azure DevOps pipeline. The HTML file is generated from a task of the pipeline. How to do that? I have followed this guide…
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"Save all comments" button on a Pull Request

When you create a pull request on TFS you have a button called 'Save all comments'. When I press the button, nothing happens. You can find the button on the overview page pressing the '...' menu. We expected to have a download with all the…
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