Oct '08 TFS Power Tools are Available!

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Martin — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 19:56:49 GMT

I especially love the shell extension and powershell snapin. Great stuff.

Is there a reason why the shell extension does not offer a "View History" command?

And a minor issue: The shell extension dialogs do not have the Vista "theme" look, but are like the classic pre-XP Windows dialogs.

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buckley — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 23:40:08 GMT

I was excite about the shell extension but they don't show up. I read in the help file that they are retreived async but I've waited a few minutes.

I am testing it over remote desktop and don't know if this would explain it.

I'll check later Monday when I'm at our office.

Should and extra action be taken to enable it?

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bharry — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 02:10:57 GMT

Dang, I should have mentioned it. Because the impact of the shell extension can be system wide, we decided to not enable it by default. When you run setup, you have to explicitly choose the option to install it.

History is one of the next things to add. Expect to see it in the next release. I'll look into the Vista theming, thanks.

Brian

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Rory Primrose — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 06:17:59 GMT

I've been eagerly waiting for this one. Wicked! Thanks.

Mistake in text?

mjurek — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 12:39:30 GMT

I do not understand the sentence "improvement is that the setup will NOT automatically uninstall" - should be NOW? Or how can NOT uninstalling eliminate one step?

TFS Power Toys

Richard Fennell — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 14:21:47 GMT

I am not a fan of blog posts that are just a repeat of an announcement on other blogs, but in this case

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Mathias Olausson — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 14:49:27 GMT

Thanks for the updated release! The new Shell extension is really valuable, not least to convince users of Tortoise etc that TFS is a worthy substitute.

My other favorite this time is the "Team Member" folder. Very handy to have quick access to things team members can do. An unexpected feature but I'm really happy with it.

Keep up the good work!

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bharry — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 15:26:36 GMT

Thanks mjurek! What a difference a letter makes :) I've fixed the post.

Brian

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Vincent Bergbauer — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 08:12:56 GMT

The PowerShell extension is a great addition.

One little issue to look at for the next release though:

It is easy to check-out and lock a file in a single command:

tfpend -edit -Lock checkin MyFile.cs

Checking-out a file first, then locking it later does not seem possible:

tfpend -edit MyFile.cs # Works fine

tfpend -edit -Lock checkin MyFile.cs # No error, but does not do anything

Of course, one can revert to the tf.exe command:

tf lock /lock:checkin MyFile.cs

In the future, you could either add to the semantics of Add-TfsPendingChange to make changes cumulative, or create a Add-TfsLock command...

Keep up the good work!

Vincent.

!!! Tfs beschikbaar in Windows Explorer !!!

Mark analyseert — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:26:13 GMT

Oktober was nieuwe release beloofd van de TFS (team foundation) power tools. Ik had deze post al een

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Gurb — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:59:34 GMT

I'm afraid the Windows Shell Extension doesn't work for me.

I can see a Team Foundation Server option in the Windows Explorer context menu but the sub menu just lists "Reconnect to server".

When I select it I just get a dialog box with a message reporting that it is unable to connect to Team Foundation Server. Everything TFS related works as expected in Visual Studio. So not sure what is missing.

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Achim — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:37:14 GMT

I was searching for a docu to develop my on CollaborationProvider for Lotus Sametime, but couldn't find anything. When will it be available?

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bharry — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:47:52 GMT

Good feedback Vincent, thank you.

Gurb, I'll forward this on to the developer and see if they have ideas.

Achim, I expect to blog something about it this week.

Brian

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bharry — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:28:09 GMT

Gurb, is it possible that you connect to TFS with something other than your Windows credentials? Right now the shell extension only supports Windows credentials. We'll be adding support for explicitly providing credentials in a future release.

Brian

Oct '08 TFS Power Tools are Available!

ZaydKara — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:14:15 GMT

The latest version of the TFS Power Tools is available for download here . You can read about all the

Oct ?08 TFS Power Tools are available!

Daniel Sack — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:43:45 GMT

Oct ?08 TFS Power Tools are available!

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Jeff Schumacher — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:07:31 GMT

Nice work guys. I did not have any issues with the install on two machines, and logging out and back in was enough for getting the Windows Shell extension to work.

There seems to be something major lacking from the Windows Shell extension though - no support for "View History...". People who are used to TortiseSVN may find this very annoying, because almost everything is there, except the capability to view the history of a file or folder. Is that feature planned for a future release?

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Ravings of a Developer TS — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:44:39 GMT

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hempels — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:20:40 GMT

Not sure it's worth spending a ton of time on, but I wanted to point out that (at least) the Shell Extensions do not "work" when the workspace mapping in TFS is a logical (but not literal) match for the actual filesystem path to the source controlled files.

E.g. After I already had workspaces configured in TFS, I moved some source files to a different drive and created directory junctions to point to the new locations. Everything has handled that move swimingly until I tried the new Shell Extension. After changing the TFS workspace mapping, the extension works as expected.

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burton — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 01:13:46 GMT

just was looking at the new Alerts node in Team Explorer. i noticed that in the alert designer, the "Alert Definition:" label is painting over the top of the toolbar. I'm running 120dpi.

Velká novinky v TFS Power Tools

BonzBlog Michaela Juřka — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:32:08 GMT

Poslední edice TFS Power Tools byla vydána 7.listopadu, ale nese název "October 2008".

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bharry — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:32:17 GMT

Jeff, yes, History is next on our list and will be in the next release.

Hempels, thanks for the feedback. We'll investigate it.

Thanks burton.

Brian

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Czech MSDN Team — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:51:37 GMT

Windows Shell integration is nice but needs lots of UI polishing. Line spacing of text is smaller than line spacing of standard context menu. Also icon and overlay quality is beyond Windows standards and icons are 1-2 pixels clipped from right.

But nevertheless, great job !!!

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crowleym — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:05:33 GMT

The collection of presence information fails on my machine with the following error:

Creating an instance of the COM component with CLSID {B69003B3-C55E-4B48-836C-BC5946FC3B28} from the IClassFactory failed due to the following error: 80004005.

The team members node hangs with "working...", then the error appears, and then all of the collaboration features are disabled.

Windows Vista Business SP1 (32-bit)

Windows Live Messenger (8.5.1302.1018)

Visual Studio 2008 Developer Edition SP1

The personal settings screen is populated as expected.

Thanks.

Can't install Oct '08 TFS Power Tools

Ыркшлу — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:59:54 GMT

Hi.

I'm using Windows Server 2003 x64.

TFPT setup fails on my maching. During "removing beckup file" setup's step I get error "something failed" and setup rollbacks.

In EventLog I only can see regular "module devenv failed at.. bla-bla-bla"

VSTS Links - 3

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Dennis van der Stelt — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:12:02 GMT

I have the same error as crowleym.

Using Vista Ultimate SP1, Messenger 14.0.5027.908 and VS2008 Team Suite SP1.

I'm running in a workgroup, but got passwords setup to auto connect to the TFS server on the domain.

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Rob Siklos — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:52:58 GMT

I also have the same error as crowleym, but the error code is 8007000e (instead of 80004005).. Same GUID though.

Seems related to Live Messenger, so I set the Collaboration Provider in "Personal Settings" to "none", and the error no longer appears.

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Rob Siklos — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:19:47 GMT

For some reason, none of the TFS powershell commands are available to me. (e.g. "help *-tfs*" returns nothing).

I'm using Windows XP, maybe that makes a difference.

Any ideas?

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mrbelk — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:01:27 GMT

Same error as crowleym, but when I disable the Collaboration Provider, I can no longer bring up the "Personal Settings" dialog box. I get an "Invalid Argument=Value of '3' is not valid for 'Selected Index' popup.

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robogob — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:07:10 GMT

Same error as crowleym too (every member of our team is having the same error :( )

MS Windows Server 2003 Standart Edition SP2

Visual Studio 2008 SP1

MS Live Messenger 8.5 (tried from MSN Messenger 7.0 to Live Messenger 9 beta 2)

It seems like PowerTools is using the old Windows Messenger library for sending IMs

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robogob — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:37:35 GMT

Solution for Windows Server 2003:

Goto C:\Program Files\Windows Live\Messenger, right-click on msnmsgr.exe -> Properties -> Compatibility -> Run this program in Compatibility mode -> Windows XP -> OK

The same for C:\Program Files\Messenger\Msmsgs.exe.

It Helped in my situation.

P.S.: I had Windows Messenger 5.1 installed before...

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robogob — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 12:18:54 GMT

Hi,

sorry for my previous post. After restarting VS the problem occured again :(.

After 2 days of trying I found a solution (works for Win Server 2003 and Win XP).

Tested on Windows Server 2003 with WLM 8.5 and Windows XP with WLM 9 beta.

1. Windows Messenger 5.1 (not Live Messenger) has to be installed on the PC:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a8d9eb73-5f8c-4b9a-940f-9157a3b3d774&displaylang=en

2. A Live ID has to be created as in the TFS (AD account). And Microsoft Live Messenger has to be running.

3. Open VS 2008.

4. Error : "Creating an instance of the COM component with CLSID {B69003B3-C55E-4B48-836C-BC5946FC3B28} from IClassFactory failed due to the following error: 8007000e" -> OK

5. Refresh Team Explorer

6. New error: "Exception from HRESULT: 0x80040200" -> OK

7. Refresh Team Explorer

8. VS wants to send an error report to Microsoft -> Don't Send

9. New error: "The server threw an exception. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80010105 (RPC_E_SERVERFAULT))" -> OK

10. Open new instance of VS 2008

11. Repeat steps 4,5,6 on that new instance of VS 2008.

12. Close that instance of VS 2008 and return to the old one (opened first).

13. Refresh Team Explorer. If error occures refresh it again (1-5 times may be needed).

14. Everything is functioning.

P.S.: this procedure has to be done every time you open VS :(.

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Bodie — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:53:20 GMT

Seems like a lot of work to go through just to get collaboration working. Does anyone know the status of this bug with M$?

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bharry — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:43:43 GMT

I'm going to be investigating it in the next few days.

Brian

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Jack Vinitsky — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:58:09 GMT

I get the error when clicking on Reconnect to Server as well. Looking in the event viewer shows an error where the TFSShellExt is trying to connect to an old instance of TFS that we were using previously but whose trial license has expired.

How do I get it to point to our production TFS server?

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Jack Vinitsky — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:06:21 GMT

Nevermind...I was using a local folder that itself was part of a workspace from our old server. Disregard my prior post.

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Ryan Rousseau — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 01:13:48 GMT

I had the same problem as others - found some tips on this thread (http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/tfspowertools/thread/e80f0333-9ef6-48a0-a409-1a693d5afcc6/?ffpr=0) and managed to stumble across an apparent solution.

Quoting my post from the other thread

I think I've found _a_ solution - not necessarily the correct solution.

I followed theses steps (as described above)

1. Open VS 2008 and wait until Team Members is not "working..."

2. Right-click on it and select Personal Settings

3. Under Collaboration, click Change

4. On the opened dialog select None and click OK

5. Click OK once again

But then I got this error (also described above)

InvalidArgument=Value of '3' is not valid for 'SelectedIndex'

Parameter name: SelectedIndex.

I went to the PersonalSettings.config file (C:\Documents and Settings\<user name>\Application Data\Microsoft\Team Foundation Server\PersonalSettings.config) and changed the xml element from

No particular reason other than it matched the text in the drop down on the personal settings page, but it works. I don't get the errors anymore and I can open the personal settings page.

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Carlos — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:46:50 GMT

Hi,

Editing the PersonalSettings.config to chenge the element to <CollaborationProvider connection="<None>" /> , It does not work for me.

When I re-start VS, error shows again. Personal settings now can be opened, but instead of showing <None>, again appears Windows Live Messanger. It seems that the configuration file , even that is changed , is re-generated again.

Also, I have Xp and if I set "Run as" administrator for the messenger application, it does not work for me.

It seems that this collaboration feature has not been tested enought and can not even be uninstalled or deactivated !

I hope this gets solved soon. If not, I will uninstalled the whole Power tool.

Hope anyone solves this ,

Best,

Carlos.

Tfs beschikbaar in Windows Explorer

Mark analyseert — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 22:40:49 GMT

Oktober was nieuwe release beloofd van de TFS (team foundation) power tools. Binnen deze release zit

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Daniel Berghold — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:09:12 GMT

Hi,

we are planning to use TFS at our company for other IDEs than Visual Studio and use the TFS Power Toys Shell Integration for Source Control with TFS.

But we would really need the feature, that a file is automatically checked out for edit whenever any application changes that file. Is this somehow possible? This is really critical to us.

I would be very grateful for any suggestions!

- Daniel

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Gary Menzel — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:46:13 GMT

Just a final word on the PersonalSettings.config.

I had the same problem. Editing it to be an empty string DOES WORK.

I found when I edited each of my projects they were added to the PersonalSettings.config file but the <CollaborationProvider/> tag is global. Changing it from having "{none}" to "" AND restarting VS seems to fix it for all loaded projects.

You can open up each project and see that there is no Collaboration Provider.

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bharry — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:46:06 GMT

Daniel, no, I'm afraid there's no "auto checkout on modification feature". You can overwrite the writable file and later go back and check it out (checking a file out does not replace it from the server).

We will be looking at eliminating the requirement to do a checkout in a future version.

Brian