I spent hours to solve this problem…

My customer has VB6 SP5, we installed Team Explorer 2008, MSSCCI provider…and nothing! I started the VB6 IDE, but I cannot find any source control or Team Foundation menu’s.

Then I found this thread.

The Solution:

Add the line:

vbscc=1

To c:\windows\vbaddin.ini

Then restart VB6, and you get a new menu item: Tools, Team Foundation.

Tags: Team System, Team System Tips

I’m working on my TechEd demos which includes DB Projs and MSBuild + Team Build .I needed to remove one of my build agents.

To remove a build agent, navigate to to the Build Menu,  or the Build Explorer.  Click on Manage Build Agents in order to remove/edit/add a build agent.

In order to use the Build Menu, you must first open the Team Explorer. Otherwise, the Manage Build Agents will not be part of the menu.

Tags: Team Build, Team Build 2008, Team System 2008, Team System Tips

I’ve been asked several time about this issue – are there any restrictions  in setting up Team Foundation Server on a virtual server as a development server?

The answer is NO. There are no issues for such installation.

Read about it here.

Tags: Team System, Team System 2008, Team System Tips

Sometimes you need to restrict users to use work items or make it obsolete. We can’t delete a work item type from the process template, so we must find other ways. I didn’t find a good solution for that issue.  (There is an article from MS, how to make a work item obsolete, but I needed other solution. read here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms184761.aspx)

You can do that by editing work item type definition for the type and setting permissions on the first transition:

<TRANSITION from="" to="Opened" for="YOUR DOMAIN\USER OR GROUP" >

That way, only authorized users can open work item of this type.

Tags: Team System, Team System 2008, Team System Tips

I often visit customers and work outside the office, means I work disconnected for a while.

It’s laborious when I open VS (2005 or 2008) and waiting for VS to connect automatically to TFS.

Colin Beales has an excellent tip that explains how to stop Visual Studio from automatically connecting to a TFS server when it starts up.

• Backup your registry
• Navigate to Team Foundation key:
  • For VS 2005 navigate to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\TeamFoundation
  • For VS 2008 navigate to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\TeamFoundation
• Add a registry key “AutoLoadServer” (type DWORD)
• Setting the value to be 0 (Do not connect automatically or 1 to connect automatically).

Tags: Team System, Team System Tips, Visual Studio 2008, Visual Studio Team System

Over the last year I frequently asked by our customers “What is the best way to structure my team projects?”.
This is a good question!
And the answer?….

Miscrosot produced a whitepaper (Guidance for Structuring Team Projects) that summarizes the factors to consider when making this choice.

Tags: Team System Tips