Scripting TFS Command Line for Get Latest Version, Check Out and Check in, programmatically
I use WinXP, VS 2008 and Team Explorer to connect to Team Foundation Server.
I need to script (e.g. BAT file script) the following:
Get latest version of folder in Team Project.
Check out files of folder in Team Project.
Check in files of folder in Team Project.
My TFSProject is $/Arquitectura/Main/, mapped to the path C:\TFS\Arquitectura
Does anyone have any sample code or suggestions?
Use tf.exe in the command line.
In the following examples, the %PathToIde% is usually on a path like this: %ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE, or on Windows x64: %ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE (depending on Visual Studio version and installation settings).
Example for get:
cd C:\TFS\Arquitectura
"%PathToIde%\TF.exe" get $/Arquitectura/Main /recursive
Example for checkout:
cd C:\TFS\Arquitectura
"%PathToIde%\TF.exe" checkout $/Arquitectura/Main /recursive
Example for checkin:
cd C:\TFS\Arquitectura
"%PathToIde%\TF.exe" checkin $/Arquitectura/Main /recursive
See for more information on the tf commandline.
Update for VS2017
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Enterprise\Common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\TeamFoundation\Team Explorer\tf.exe'
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\tf.exe" get "$/ProjectName/Main" /force /recursive
/force in this standard case?
get up to date code for Windows 7 64bit
"%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\TF.exe" get /recursive
This worked for me.
I tried the following piece of code in Powershell on Windows 10 64-bit and it worked for me:
cd C:\MyWorkspace & "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE\TF.exe" get $/TFSFolderPath /recursive
Please note that the second line starts with an Ampersand (&), my code doesn't work without it, don't know the reason for it though.
Update for Visual Studio 2022
Create a Batch file for taking the latest version from TFS. Save this file with .bat extension
TakeLatest.bat
@echo off
title Project Builder
echo Taking Latest of All Projects which are listed here
cd /d %~dp0
call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Professional\Common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\TeamFoundation\Team Explorer\TF.exe" get /recursive
pause
Note: cd /d is your project folder location drive
For Visual Studio 2019
Update with this line into batch file ,
call "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Professional\Common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\TeamFoundation\Team Explorer\TF.exe" get /recursive
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