Tag: command promt

TFS: Delete Folder without a Workspace

Sorry about this title, but actually you cannot delete a source controlled folder without assigning first a workspace, BUT, but you can avoid wasting disk space avoiding to recursively download all the files in that folder, so it’s what I think you want to do, and then here’s the steps:

  1. Open the “Developer Command Prompt for VS2013”
  2. Go to the workspace folder where you have the folder you want to get without recursively get all the items
  3. run the command “tf get <folder path>” without the /recursive switch

TF will get only the first level content of the <folder path>, then you can go back on visual studio team explorer, delete the folder and checkin the changes 🙂

Visual Studio: Create self-signed certificate for ClickOnce (.pfx)

When you want to create a ClickOnce deployment you should sign the automatically generated manifest using an Authenticode certificate, providing a certificate took from the local computer cert store or passing a .pfx file.

To create an homemade self-signed .pfx file (for testing purpose only!!!), open the “Visual Studio Command Promt (2010)” or the “Developer Command Prompt for VS2012” and run the following two steps:

makecert.exe -sv TestCodeSign.pvk -n “CN=Test Code Sign” TestCodeSign.cer

pvk2pfx.exe -pvk TestCodeSign.pvk -spc TestCodeSign.cer -pfx TestCodeSign.pfx -po password

If you want, you can also omit the password.

Now that you have your own homemade certificate you can use it, especially useful while using command-line tools like mage (or mageUI with GUI support).

Stay Tuned! 😉