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BrooklynDev
BrooklynDev

Reputation: 890

Team Foundation (TFS 2010) Folder Cloaking - Server Side Alternative?

I have a website project that is consuming user controls from another shared project. I am using a build event to copy the *.ascx files over from the source user control project.

I don't want the ascx files to be checked into TFS source control from the consuming project, only the source project. Is there a way to keep TFS from trying to check in files from a specific folder other then cloaking?

My issue with cloaking is that it's a client side function, which means every developer who takes down the project would have to manually cloak the folder or folders in question themselves. I'd like to be able to setup the solution in such a way as a developer could take the project down from source control without having to manually configure it to accommodate my separate project for shared user controls.

There is an article here: http://devio.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/shared-aspx-and-ascx-files-in-visual-studio-and-tfs/ that seems to address this issue but I think they're setup is different then mine in that I am using a website project and not a web application project. Being that I have no .csproj file there's no way to include or exclude files from my project.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 4623

Answers (1)

Daniel Morritt
Daniel Morritt

Reputation: 1817

Check out the TFS Power Tools (if you haven't already) http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/c255a1e4-04ba-4f68-8f4e-cd473d6b971f, under Team Members > General Settings, you can setup a Worspace Template to cloak as needed.

Not played with it myself, but looks to be the functionality that you need.

Upvotes: 3

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