Team Development with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server

• How to perform a baseless merge
• How to resolve merge conflicts
How to Use Labels
Use labels to group a set of files and folders together for future operations. You can use
labels for branching, merging, diffing, or getting files. A label provides a marker to which
you can return when performing one of the above operations at a later date.
To apply a label to a file or folder
1. Right-click the file or folder in Source Control Explorer and then click Apply Label.
2. In the Choose Item Version dialog box, modify your choice of file or folder, choose
the version of the file or folder that you would like to label, and then click OK to
apply the label.
When applying labels, consider the following:
• Labels are markers that you can apply to only one version of a file or folder at a
time.
• You can apply multiple labels to a version of a file or folder.
• Labels that you apply by using Source Control Explorer are automatically scoped
to the root folder of the team project within which they are created. You cannot
create two labels with the same name within the same scope.
• Labels are un-versioned objects and there is no history associated with them.
• Labels are applied instantly, and they do not require a check-in
• Team Build automatically assigns a label to the set of files associated with each
build that it creates.
• Labels are not applied to deleted items; this means that merge-by-label will not
pick up deleted files.
To locate an existing label
1. On the File menu, point to Source Control, point to Label, click Find Label, and
then navigate to the label.
2. After finding the label, you can modify it or delete it from within the Find Label
dialog box.
Additional Resources
• For more information about using labels, see “Working with Labels” at
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms181439(VS.80).aspx
• For more information about applying labels, see “How to: Apply Labels” at
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms181440(VS.80).aspx
How to Branch
To create a branch, either use Source Control Explorer or use the tf branch command
from the command line.