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Hello, I'm working on an embedded software team that has been using git to manage our source code. Soon, we plan on switching to TFS. Currently, we use a command-line program that automatically formats our source code - it enforces proper indentation, spacing, etc. I'm not sure that I fully understand TFS check-in policies... would we be able to create a check-in policy that automatically executes this command-line program on source code as it is committed?

Thank you so much,

Erik A. Snider

Friday, July 23, 2010 2:19 PM

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A checkin policy validates whether the user has satisfied the policies to be able to checkin, such as are all unit tests passed, has the user provided checkin comments.

What you want to do is execute code after the checkin event. You can do that with the Event Service in TFS: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc507647.aspx. Another possibility is to use the pre/post build events: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ke5z92ks(VS.80).aspx
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Monday, July 26, 2010 4:53 AM