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TFS Quick Tip: Cloaking

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In the Source Control Explorer in VS2010 or VS2012, you can cloak any folder in the source tree that want to recursively excluded from "Get Latest Version" operations.  Just right-click on the folder, select "Advanced" and "Cloak...".  VS2010/2012 will even delete all the local files and folders for those that are checked in; this means you will have to manually delete obj and bin directories, etc.

I have found that this saves me a lot of time when pulling from TFS.

Rob

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  • Anonymous
    August 21, 2013
    I do not have the option to cloak in my right click menu. It's annoying! I can, however, cloak by going to Workspaces -> Edit, and then pick each folder and mark it cloaked. Do you have any ideas why it's not in my right-click menu? Is it related to privileges maybe?

  • Anonymous
    February 08, 2014
    You can find this option in the sub menu under "Advanced" item when you right click the folder in explorer.

  • Anonymous
    November 03, 2014
    if you dont have the 'clock' option that means you have not made a mapping of your files to local. attention: after mapping do not 'get' your folder yet (a pop up will ask you to). now you can clock the folders you want!!!!!!

  • Anonymous
    July 26, 2016
    and how about of uncloak ?? does is possible?