Identify missing files in source control explorer

Is there a way to identify which files are in the workspace and not in the TFS source control solution? The "Compare" option in the "Source Control Explorer" is grayed out. Tried using the power tools
but only the Analyzer is installed. The TFPT.exe is not installed. There is a solution in Stack Overflow however none of it works. Thanks in advance.

Hi Clem,
Thanks for your post.
In Source Control Explorer, right-click on source folder path and select Add Items to Folder…, then check which file(s) list in the opened dialog and can add to source control.
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Windows Explorer integration for Source Control Explorer

Hi together,
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Some time ago i've worked with TortoiseSVN for Source Control and there were a Windows Explorer Integration which was super easy to use for making new local repositorys, checkin and checkout, is there something similar for TFS? Because we only write Powershell
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Hi Rolf,
Thanks for your post.
You’re using VSO Account?
What’s the version of your VS? if you’re using VS 2013, you can install the
TFS 2013 Power Tools on your client. If you installed the TFS 2013 Power Tools on your VS 2013 client, after you mapped and got the source file to local workspace folder using Source Control Explorer, you can right-click on the local workspace folder and
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Hi Guys,
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We have created a table in our database which will have columns like names, latest, last_checkin.
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We need to create reports based on the locations and send it to our client.
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Why would you use SSIS to read from TFS?
And then create a report?
Wrong design to my taste.
You need a lot of .Net code as you need TFS APIs used this way.
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Show/Hide Directories in Source Control Explorer

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hi John
no that is not possible.
what you can do is
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Identify missing files ("The file could not be opened")

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Working on a few projects on my own I have used Team Explorer in Visual Studio Professional 2013 successfully for some time. I only use source/version control.
My default collection is hosted on visualstudio.com.
I now want to bring a second person, say Fred, who also has VS Professional, into the act in such a way that he can download but not modify my projects and I can download but not modify his.
Because all the projects are closely related, we each want to be able to quickly look at each others projects to see what has changed as well as being able to download them. I think this will be easier if all the projects are in the same collection.
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When, in VS, I sign myself out and sign in as Fred. As Fred I can download all the projects and I can update them. That is not what I want.
I clearly don't understand the relationships between Collections, Projects, Teams and VSO Groups.
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Hi Jeff,
Thanks for your post.
We can Deny the check in permission for user/group on separate folder(s)/file(s) in Source Control Explorer. In your VS>>Source Control Explorer, right-click on “zxzx” and select
Advanced>>Security…, then you can add Fred account in this opened dialog and deny his check-in permission in there.
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