Extending the new TFS Team Members Power Tool

re: Extending the new TFS Team Members Power Tool

Tof — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 13:29:43 GMT

Hi,

I'm very interested in this new collaborative tool. I'm trying to get it work with WLM, but i can't find where Team Members IM are defined ??

Should it be part of User AD info ?

re: Extending the new TFS Team Members Power Tool

bharry — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 10:34:44 GMT

It uses the groups in your TFS project groups: Team -> Team Project Settings -> Groups (or something like that).

You can add AD groups to those groups and that will work too.

There is a menu option when you right click on the Team Project in Team Explorer and click Team Project Settings for configuring which group with be your "team group". All groups contained in that group will be sub teams and so on.

Brian

re: Extending the new TFS Team Members Power Tool

Tof — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:25:53 GMT

Thanks Brian, I already have my team members visible (team & sub team). My question was : where does the WLM collaboration provider plugin take the IM-address ? I found, in my case, that it takes the mail-address from the user AD page. The problem is, my team members have different work-email and IM-account. Is there a solution to link them without creating a new provider ?

re: Extending the new TFS Team Members Power Tool

Colin — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:21:43 GMT

Thanks Brian - always enjoy your posts. I have a similar question to one posted by Tof - we are using Live Messenger, but each dev has their own "private" signon name (while AD is configured with "corporate" emails). We want to extend the Messenger provider in such a way as to configure the username/password (and save it to some config or registry). It looks like the SignIn() method takes a username and password, but it is unclear when (if at all) this method is called. Any tips?

re: Extending the new TFS Team Members Power Tool

Tof — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:20:41 GMT

So it seems similar to Colin remark...

re: Extending the new TFS Team Members Power Tool

bharry — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 01:14:03 GMT

You are correct. We use the email address from AD for your IM address. The issue was that we didn't have any obvious place to put a separate IM address. Fixing that issue is my #1 priority for our next update (in a couple of months).

Brian

re: Extending the new TFS Team Members Power Tool

Tof — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:53:25 GMT

Good news! I'm looking forward to this update! Thank you Brian.

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re: Extending the new TFS Team Members Power Tool

Achim — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:27:50 GMT

Hi Brian,

I tried to implement just a basic "dummy" provider which just tells TeamExplorer that it's capable of all things.

By doing this in IsSupportedCapability, the context menu of TeamExplorer contains several more entries, but all of them are grayed.

I simply return SignedIn in AutoSignIn and SignIn and Running in ProviderReadiness.

Any hints for me? When is "AddContact" called?

re: Extending the new TFS Team Members Power Tool

mikeb — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:40:42 GMT

Is it possible to extend team member functionality for a NON-IM function? I was thinking of a somthing that would allow members/admins to manage the public info on for each user on the team sharepoint portal

re: Extending the new TFS Team Members Power Tool

bharry — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:04:36 GMT

There's no specific extensibility in Team Members for this but I can't think of anything you would need. VS is extensible - you can add menu items and such. Team Explorer is also extensible - you can find the currently selected node, etc. You can use the VS SDK to get the info you need to write an add in for Team Explorer.

Brian