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Visual Studio 2015 Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Jeff Martin
Book Image

Visual Studio 2015 Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Jeff Martin

Overview of this book

Visual Studio 2015 is the premier tool for developers targeting the Microsoft platform. Learning how to effectively use this technology can enhance your productivity while simplifying your most common tasks, allowing you more time to focus on your project. Visual Studio 2015 is packed with improvements that increase productivity, and this book walks you through each one in succession to help you smooth your workflow and get more accomplished. From customization and the interface to code snippets and debugging, the Visual Studio upgrade expands your options — and this book is your fast-track guide to getting on board quickly. Visual Studio 2015 Cookbook will introduce you to all the new areas of Visual Studio and how they can quickly be put to use to improve your everyday development tasks. With this book, you will learn not only what VS2015 offers, but what it takes to put it to work for your projects.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Visual Studio 2015 Cookbook Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Using local workspaces for source control


Long-time users of TFS may recall an era where using it required that their development machine have constant contact with the TFS server, even for relatively benign operations. This was because the TFS server would track the files you had on your development machine, which meant that all check-in and check-out operations required communication with the server.

The consequence of this behavior is that it makes offline work very difficult. In areas of poor network connectivity (on a plane, café, and the like), it may even mean work is prevented. Since the use of source control is something to be encouraged, this behavior is very frustrating, especially when conflicts emerge during check-ins and "get latest" operations.

In an effort to mitigate this, TFS sets the read-only flag on all files that are under source control, which only frustrates developers more, since they can't easily edit files unless they use a tool that is aware of this behavior and...