Mike Williams

Dec 11

Tell both NuGet and TFS to ignore the packages folder

Categories:

NuGet, TFS, Visual Studio

Here’s the deal: We have to tell both NuGet and TFS to ignore the packages, because NuGet is trying to do source-control related stuff that it absolutely shouldn’t be doing (bad form, Microsoft!). So you have to do two things.

First, add a file named .tfignore to the solution folder (note the lack of s after the tf). It’s contents should be as follows:

# Ignore NuGet packages
\packages
!\packages\repositories.config

# Ignore hidden .vs folder
.vs

# Optional :-

# Ignore autogenerated folders (Mainly Azure Workers)
ecf
csx
rcf

The first three lines tell TFS to ignore your packages folder, the other lines are to exclude other special folders. You need to explicitly include repositories .config as it’s part of the NuGet stuff I outline below. (Double negative in exclude list above.)

OK, so now thanks to our .tfignore file, TFS is ignoring your packages and other special folders. Everything is fine, right? WRONG, because NuGet is mucking around with your source control and adding the packages to your pending changes. So now let’s tell NuGet to stop doing this.

Create a physical folder called “.nuget” {tip in Windows Explorer type “.nuget.” as folder name to create it}.
Add a virtual folder called “.nuget” in the root of your solution folder.
Now, create a file called “NuGet.config”, in the physical folder then add it to the virtual folder.
It’s contents should look like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?
<configuration>
  <solution>
    <add key="disableSourceControlIntegration" value="true" />
  </solution>
</configuration>

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <configuration> <solution> <add key="disableSourceControlIntegration" value="true" /> </solution> </configuration>

And now your packages should stay out of source control. Just remember to add the “nuget.config”, “nuget.targets” and “.tfingore” files to source control so they never get lost.

1. Add the folder using Source Control Explorer; right-click the solution->Add folder->.nuget
2. The nuget.config file MUST go in the .nuget folder. Even if you already have a nuget.config file in the root of your solution folder (because, say, your company has an internal nuget feed). Yes, that means you’ll have two nuget.config files, one in the .nuget folder and one in the solution root. My testing indicates that’s the way it has to be. Additionally, if you do have a custom feed, ensure that you have both the custom feed and nuget.org as keys in the Nuget.config file, or sometimes TFS will randomly decide it can’t restore the packages.

Here’s some documentation for you: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/vstudio/ms245454(v=vs.110).aspx#tfignore

Tags: Visual Studio TFS

Mar 09

Completely clear All event logs

Categories:

Uncategorized

Open an elevated PowerShell console

wevtutil el | Foreach-Object {Write-Host “Clearing $_”; wevtutil cl “$_”}

Tags: Windows

Mar 09

Recursively delete all .svn folders

Categories:

SVN

Direct in CMD Prompt
FOR /F “tokens=*” %G IN (‘DIR /B /AD /S *.svn*’) DO RMDIR /S /Q “%G”

In Batch file
FOR /F “tokens=*” %%G IN (‘DIR /B /AD /S *.svn*’) DO RMDIR /S /Q “%%G”

Tags: Subversion

Sep 16

Browser Info

Categories:

Chose a browser Browse Happy

HTML5 Test here

Acid Test here

Tags: Windows

Sep 15

Enable Hidden Administrator

Categories:

Enable

net user administrator /active:yes

Disable

net user administrator /active:no

Tags: Windows

Sep 01

How to enable the F8 key to start Safe Mode in Windows 8

Categories:

To enable the F8 key in Windows 8; Open an elevated command prompt and enter the following command:

bcdedit /set {default} bootmenupolicy legacy

If you would like to disable the F8 key and go back to the original Windows 8 setting; Open an elevated command prompt and enter the following command:

bcdedit /set {default} bootmenupolicy standard

Tags: Windows

Aug 05

Office 2010 Direct Download Links

Categories:

http://www.heidoc.net/joomla/technology-science/microsoft/18-office-2010-direct-download-links

Tags: Microsoft Office, Office 2010

Aug 05

Take Ownership of Folder and Files

Categories:

Take Ownership

takeown /f {folder} /r /d y
icacls {folder} /grant administrators:f /t

Prevent S.V.I. from being used on External HDD

rmdir "System Volume information" /S /Q
echo placeholder > "System Volume Information"

Source

Tags: File Owner

Apr 09

BIOS Recovery Keys

Categories:

PC Info

Starting a recovery via the BIOS recovery partition usually means that you have to press one of the “F” keys (such as F1-F12) the moment after you hit the power button. These should be:

Acer – Alt + F10
Asus – F9
Dell/Alienware – F8
HP – F11
Lenovo – F11
MSI – F3
Samsung – F4
Sony – F10
Toshiba – 0 (not numpad) while turning on, release key when Toshiba logo appears

Tags: Hardware