How can I find out all of the checked out files in TFS 2010?

Question

We are using Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate and TFS 2010 Enterprise on Windows Server 2008, R2. For an upcoming code freeze, I need to quickly check whether any developers have files checked out. Is there a way to do this which is built into TFS and/or Visual Studio 2010?

Answer 1

As an alternative to using the tf status command you can also install the TFS 2010 power tools.

You can then right click on any folder in Source Control Explorer and select "Find in source control" > "Status"

the default option is to find all checked out files in the path you have slected.

Answer 2

For a built-in method, you can use the tf command line tool's status command.

Just open a Visual Studio command prompt from your start menu to use it. By default it lists the status of your own workspace but if you can figure out the command line you can list other people's workspaces too.

Edit:

tf status /user:* /recursive should do what you want. If you run it in a locally-mapped folder you won't need to specify which files to search, or you can just include a filespec like tf status $/MyProject/SomeFolder/*.* /user:* /recursive

Answer 3

I know this is old, but none of the answers gave specific examples of how to make this work. So here is what I came up with (TFS Server 2008).

First, open the Visual Studio Developer command prompt.

Execute the following command:

tf status $/MyFolder /user:* /recursive

The form being:

tf status itemspec /user:username /recursive

The key is the /user:* parameter, which forces TFS to look at the server and determine all the checked out files in the path specified in the itemspec parameter. If you don't use the wildcard you will only see files you personally have checked out.

For the specific use case, you would want to put this in a file versus to screen so it would look like this:

tf status $/MyFolder /user:* /recursive > c:\MyPendingCheckouts.txt

Note I ran this with VS2012 command prompt.

Answer 4

1. Right click on the top most folder that you want to start in
2. Choose "Find In Source Control"
3. Choose "Status"
4. Check "Recursive"
5. Check "Status"
6. Enter userid in the "Display files checked out to:" box (i have to include my domain, i.e. domain\userid)
7. Click "Find"

Answer 5

I find TFS Side Kicks useful for this. You can use the status side kick to look for checkouts.