Say goodbye to TFS 2008

by jhagal 15. April 2011 17:53
"But wait," I hear you say, "Visual Studio 2008 is still necessary for some types of development." 
 First step, assuming you haven't already, which you probably have, install Visual Studio 2008 Team Explorer, then, and this is vital, reinstall the VS2008 SP1. Again, you've probably already done this. After that install the Visual Studio Team System 2008 Service Pack 1 Forward Compatibility Update for Team Foundation Server 2010 which allows you to connect to TFS 2010. But you're not done yet.
 When you try to add the server, it'll complain because you have to add http://[servername]:8080/tfs/collection to the Servers list in TFS. And when you try that, it says, no. Something, something, no slashes, something. Anyway, long story short, no. However, you CAN add the server more directly, via regedt32! Edit your registry, and go to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\TeamFoundation\Servers
From here, you can add a string value that is your tfs server, something like http://[servername]:8080/tfs/

So, to sum up the six easy steps are:

  1. Check to see if you've already got Visual Studio 2008 Team Explorer - if you do skip to step 4.
  2. Install Visual Studio 2008 Team Explorer
  3. Install/Reinstall Visual Studio 2008 SP1
  4. Install VSTS2008SP1FCUTFS2010
  5. Add servers via Registry
  6. Say hello to the future - flying cars and TFS 2010.

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