Question

I ve been trying to use the Forbidden Patterns part of the TFS 2010 Power Tools and I m just not understanding something - I simply cannot get anything to change as I try to use this! I m using the version that was released recently (I believe April 23, 2010), so it s not an old version.

First off, yes, I know it s regex based, so let s clear that doubt...

I have tried to block the following scenarios:

1) I have modified all of my T4 EF templates to generate files named EntityName.gen.cs. I then attempted to prevent TFS from wanting to check those files in. I used the regular expression .gen.csz and it didn t change a single thing! I even tried it without the z and nadda!

2) I don t want app.config and web.config files to be checked-in by default because we have these things stored into app.config.base and web.config.base files that our build scripts use to generate our per-environment app.config and web.config files. As such, I tried the following regexes and again, nothing worked! web.configz, app.configz, web.release.configz and web.debug.configz.

What is it that I am screwing up with this?

Answer 1

Here s a set of expressions we use that work. We have the December 2011 Team Foundation Power Tools installed, which is where the Forbidden Patterns Policy feature comes from, not from a base TFS 2010 install.

.*/[Bb]in/.*

.*/[Pp]ackages/.*

.*/[Oo]bj/.*

.*/_[Rr]eshar[Pp]er./.*

.((?i)suo$)

.((?i)user$)

thumbs.db

I also found another site that has a good write-up with example patterns.

Answer 2

After playing around for a while I found a working solution for excluding *.config files (derived from the following blog link text)

^(.+.config$)

Please don t ask me why it s the way it is, I don t really get it myself, especially the part with $) ( )$ does not work!)

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