Menu
On the Source Control Explorer tab, in the Folders pane, select the folder that contains the item or items you want to add. Click the Add Items to Folder button. In the Add to Source Control dialog box, select the folder or items you want to add, and then click Next.
In Source Control Explorer, select the item that you want to move, open its shortcut menu, and choose Move. In the Move dialog box, either manually type the destination for the item in the To box, or choose Browse to use the Browse for Folder dialog box. Choose OK.
Use the tf.exe tool from the Visual studio commandline - it can handle wildcards:
tf.exe move <olditem> <newitem>
Example:
tf.exe move "$/My Project/V*" "$/My Project/Archive"
[EDIT] As noted in the comments: move is an alias for rename. Both commands move history.
Use rename instead of move
tf.exe rename "$/PROJECT/SharedLibs/Log4Net/*.*" "$/PROJECT/SharedLibs/3rdParty/"
tf.exe rename "$/PROJECT/SharedLibs/ZipLib/*.*" "$/PROJECT/SharedLibs/3rdParty/"
Check it out the help documentation: TFS Command Line Reference
Holan Jan has written a Visual Studio Extension which provides 'move' for multiple files within source control explorer (i.e. using a GUI) Works a treat, also has support for recent versions.
for VS2019 : https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=HolanJan.TFSSourceControlExplorerExtension-2019
for VS2017 : https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=HolanJan.TFSSourceControlExplorerExtension-18397
for VS2015 : https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=HolanJan.TFSSourceControlExplorerExtension-13343
for VS2013 : https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=HolanJan.TFSSourceControlExplorerExtension-11508
for VS2012 : https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=HolanJan.TFSSourceControlExplorerExtension-8896
Under the hood it does use the same commands mentioned above but it's just a bit friendlier to use. Each of the versions listed require RTM version of Visual Studio.
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