Question

I am working on a group project in Visual Studio and using TFS for source control. I was working on the project from my laptop and the hard drive broke. Now the solution is eternally checked out by my laptop user. How can I clear the checkout from my laptop? None of the changes are needed, I have the log in credentials, and I can still get into Windows on the laptop (the secondary hard drive broke).

Answer 1

Easiest way to do this is using the tf.exe command line utility.

Find the exact workspace, if not already known, using:

tf workspaces /computer:computername

Then remove that workspace with:

tf workspaces /remove:workspacename

More info: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/54dkh0y3.aspx