Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Team Explorer Everywhere login issue (network Username/pwd changed)

Verify the useDefaultCredentials is true on the profiles.xml. If the value is false (or not exists), change it to true (or add the property), so that whenever the network username/pwd changes, the profile.xml no need to be changed/updated.

<property name="useDefaultCredentials" type="boolean">true</property>

The profiles.xml file can be found at

<TEE Cache folder>\Profiles\profiles.xml

Your TEE cache location can be found at

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The <property name="useDefaultCredentials" type="boolean">true</property> can be found at workspaces.xml at <TEE Cache folder>\workspaces

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Setup Visual Studio 2010 to working with TFS Azure

Visual Studio 2010 requires VS2010 SP1 and Hosted TFS patch for SP1 to working TFS Azure.

Step 1
Download and Install Visual Studio 2010 SP1. You can ignore this step, if you have VS2010 SP1 already.
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=23691

Step 2
Wait for Service pack 1 installation complete. Download KB2581206 and install.
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=212065&clcid=0x409

Step 3
Once the KB2581206 is installed, open up the VS2010 and add Team Foundation Server dialog.



Step 4
On the “Add Team Foundation Server” window, start typing the TFS Azure url (example: https://adhiblog.tfspreview.com)



Step 5
Click ok. You will be presented with Windows Live ID sign in page





Once you successfully login, you will be presented with list of projects. Here after you will work with TFS Azure as if you were working with an internal TFS Server. Enjoy!