List of checked out files

Question

We are using VSTS with Server Workspaces and enforce single user check-out locking. I'd like to get a list of what files are currently checked out and to who.

Is that possible?

Note: we are using Visual Studio 2017 Community Edition

Answer 1

We cannot straightforward achieve that.

However you can run below commands in developer command prompt for visual studio to get the pending changes details. See Status command for details.

1. Get the list of workspaces users have. This will provide you all the workspaces of the users in all the computers they have.

   tf workspaces /computer:* /collection:https://xxx.visualstudio.com/DefaultCollection

2. List of what files are currently checked out (get all the pending changes) in all the workspaces using below command (Just provide the specific workspace name if you want to retrieve the pending changes from a specific workspace):

   tf stat $/0522TFVCScrum /recursive /collection:https://xxx.visualstudio.com/DefaultCollection /workspace:*
   

3. To get all changes from all users you can use command below:

   tf stat $/0522TFVCScrum /recursive /collection:https://xxx.visualstudio.com/DefaultCollection /user:*
   

You can also try the tool Team Foundation Sidekicks, it can retrieve the status locked/checked out by other users. But unfortunately it's not support VS 2017, the latest version is Version 6.0 only for Visual Studio 2015.

But these will not retrieve the details about pending changes in a remote local workspace.