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Are there any TFS plugins available for the Eclipse IDE? We are trying to centralise our SCM, and since we also develop Java 2 EE applications, we would like to have TFS integration in eclipse.
Which plugins are available? Which have you found most useful.
I heard that Microsoft may be releasing one, does anyone know about this?
I have had a look and found the reviews of Teamprise looks good, however would like to have > 1 option!
Thanks in advance.
Option 1: Microsoft Visual Studio Team Explorer Everywhere 2010
With the launch of Visual Studio 2010 ALM Microsoft also released Microsoft Visual Studio Team Explorer Everywhere 2010 which is an Eclypse plug in.
This is fully supported by Microsoft (they bought Teamprise) and supports:
Any of the following IDEs:
Eclipse 3.0 to 3.5 on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, AIX, or HP-UX.
IBM Rational Application Developer 6.0 to 7.5 on Windows.
IBM Rational Application Developer 7.0 to 7.5 on Linux.
Additional IDEs based on Eclipse 3.0 to 3.5 are supported including Adobe Flex Builder 3 and Aptana Studio 2.0.
Option 2: SVN Bridge
You can use the SVN Bridge to use any product that would normaly connect to SVN to connect to Team Foundation Server. Magic :)
(February 2010)
There might not be a free plugin and this SO question reports several alternative to a direct Eclipse integration.
Otherwise, there is Teamprise:
(Octobre 2010)
As Martin (mrhinsh) details in his answer (go upvote it):
Since Teamprise was aquired by Microsoft it has become Microsoft Visual Studio Team Explorer Everywhere 2010 (as mentioned by the teamprise.com page, and detailed in the Microsoft teamprise FAQ page).
It might be accessible for anyone with a MSDN licence.
(thijs confirms in the comment: "its free with an MSDN (Visual Studio Ultimate with MSDN) account")
(March 2012, mentioned in the comments by Buck Hodges, Development manager for Microsoft Team Foundation Server):
The blog post "Even Better Access to Team Foundation Server" by Brian Harry MS announces:
Starting today, we are eliminating the requirement to purchase Team Explorer Everywhere separately.
Before today,
Team Explorer Everywhere users had to purchase both a Client Access License (CAL) and the Team Explorer Everywhere software,
whereas Visual Studio Team Explorer users only had to purchase a CAL – the Visual Studio Team Explorer software has always been a free download (TE 2008, TE 2010, TE 11 Beta) for users who had a license to access a TFS server.
Starting today the story is the same for Team Explorer Everywhere (TEE 2010 with SP1, TEE 11 Beta).
Team Explorer Everywhere is now a free download. Here is the official post: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bharry/archive/2012/03/08/even-better-access-to-team-foundation-server.aspx. Prior to March 8, 2012, it was not free.
You must have a client access license (CAL) for TFS, and that comes with MSDN subscriptions, for example.
Teamprise integration I found to be filled with bugs, after days of trying to get it to work with the Zend IDE 6.1, I stopped. We decided as a large corporation to not use TFS for our OS development.
To provide updated information:
The eclipse plugin update site is public available and is free!
Installation instructions are here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh301122.aspx
If you want to install stable release http://dl.microsoft.com/eclipse/tfs
If you want to install and test the preview release
http://dl.microsoft.com/eclipse/tfs/preview
have a look at SvnBridge, then you can use an SVN plugin in Eclipse e.g. Subclipse (or svn command line or tortoisesvn depending on your development environemt)
Other than that you're stuck with paying MS for the TEE plugin.
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I am using SQL Server Data Tools (which = Visual Studio 2015 (Integrated)) and I am having trouble being able to connect to TFS. I can see the Team Explorer window, but when I click "Manage Connections" --> "Connect to Team Foundation Server" ....nothing happens. I get no error or prompt or anything. Has anyone else had issues like this? Spent most of my day googling the problem yesterday and I can't figure out what is wrong.
I cannot use VS community as I am part of a company and it would violate the TOS.
Unfortunately, TFS is not included in the minimal VS that SSDT installs. If you're not able to use VS Community due to license restrictions, I would suggest looking into the Express edition (Web or Desktop) of Visual Studio 2015. It has a less restrictive license and supports the SSDT tools.
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Our team decide to use Visual Studio Community instead of Visual Studio 2013. I wonder can we install TFS in Visual Studio Community and work well? Thanks!
Visual Studio Community edition is feature equal to Visual Studio Professional except that in an organization it can only be used for open source projects, academic research or learning. For other commercial scenarios you're only allowed to use the Community edition up to 5 users.
Team Foundation Server is a separate product. If you have an MSDN subscription (which you won't have if you're using VS Community), you get licenses to install TFS.
However, instead of installing TFS you can also look at Visual Studio Team Services, a hosted version of TFS which is free up to five users.
So, if you're with less than 5 users, you can use Community and Visual Studio Team Services completely free.
We are going to buy "VS 2013 Pro" and we need to know, if this product is compatible with tfs 2010 version. Are they able to connect properly. Maybe somebody tried or found an official post from microsoft about support.
Officially yes, TFS 2010 or higher supports VS 2013, but I have found you can get the following:
"You cannot connect to {IP Address here} because it is running a version of Team Foundation Server that is not supported by your version of Visual Studio" blah blah blah
If you get this, you may have to mess around with your Team Explorer version to get one that is compatible with TFS 2010. I have not experimented with the standard Visual Studio plug in. I do know that you can also download the MSSCCI client bits and switch to them in options if you are still having issues.
This pix shows switching to the MSSCCCI client:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GYFtUDIlZcg/UI1jVHwlaaI/AAAAAAAAVgQ/lVKlW_Mc-XU/s400/Select+Source+Control.png
See Compatibility between Team Foundation clients and Team Foundation Server
I'm a .NET developer and use VS2008/TFS2008. Recently, another developer has left our company and now I have to maintain his code. He was a Delphi developer (Delphi 7 mostly, but also Delphi 2007) and he didn't use any source control.
Is there a way to put his code in Team Foundation Server? Integration in the Delphi IDE is a big plus.
To get IDE integration with TFS in Delphi 7, you need can use the MSSCCI provider for TFS in conjuction with SourceConnexion which gives MSSCCI support to Delphi. You will need to install the following on your machine if you do not have them already:
Microsoft Team Explorer 2008 (The TFS Client)
The Microsoft MSSCCI provider for TFS 2008
SourceConnexion
You need to ensure that you have TFS client access licenses for any of the Delphi folks connecting to TFS and get them a license for the SourceConnexion plug-in.
As you already have VS2008 installed on your machine talking to TFS2008 you probably only need to install items 2 and 3.
See Eyal's blog post for more information (a little out of date but stil valid).
We use SourceConnexion (3rd party plugin) with D2007:
http://www.epocalipse.com/scx.htm
(Works nice with SCC api plugin of Plastic SCM, which has better branching support than TFS :-) )
I realize that this is an old thread but during my reserach on how to use TFS2012 with Borland Delphi 2006 the posts here helped me a lot, so I wanted to share my experience.
To use TFS2012 or TFS2010 with Borland Delphi 2006 please follow these steps.
Download and install Microsoft Team Explorer 2010.
Download and install TFS MSSCCI provider TFS2010 (make sure you download the 32-bit version even if on a 64-bit machine!).
Download and install SourceConnexIon.
Open Borland Delphi 2006, click on the Source Control menu item and follow the configuration wizzard.
You must follow this order or SourceConneXion won't detect TFS.
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I have to setup team foundation server for a company, something that I don't have any experience in.
The company will have about 5 or so developers that will be using it.
Is this a big task or something that is fairly easy to do (with instructions)?
Any helpful tutorials that you can recommend?
Any recommendations on server specs for a team of 5-10?
Your first step should be to download the latest TFS Installation Guide (TFSInstall.chm) from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=FF12844F-398C-4FE9-8B0D-9E84181D9923&displaylang=en
You should use TFS 2008 SP1, since it is the latest release and includes many new features and performance improvements.
If you are planning on installing with Windows 2008 & SQL 2008, you will need to "integrate" the TFS 2008 SP1 into the installation disc. Instructions are included in the TFSInstall.chm, but Martin Woodward also has a walkthrough on his blog:
http://www.woodwardweb.com/vsts/creating_a_tfs.html
(This isn't required for SQL 2005 SP2 + Windows 2003)
The install guide also has hardware recommendations.
For a team of your size, you should also consider running your TFS instance as a Virtual Machine. This will allow you to up-size and move your installation around more easily at a later date. TFS is supported on the Hyper-V virtualization platform: http://blogs.msdn.com/granth/archive/2008/06/27/team-foundation-server-and-hyper-v-virtualization.aspx
And if you need help along the way, you have three options:
Call up MS product support ($$, but you will get an answer)
Post on the official Team Foundation Server - Setup forums: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=68&SiteID=1
Sign up to the http://OzTFS.com/ mailing list. The people on this list are pretty good at responding to questions almost instantaneously. It's also a great list to join if you just want to "watch" what's happening.
Disregard the "Cliff's Note" link - it's for VSTS 2005. There's no reason to install an old version - the installer (and everything else about the product) is MUCH improved with VSTS2008. Also make sure you install SP1 - it's not just bug fixes but some MAJOR enhancements.
Instructions for install are here: Team Foundation VSTS2008 Install Guide make sure you closely follow the recommendations for the Accounts necessary for install.
Blog post with recommendations for server specs
The link that Espo posted is excellent walkthroughs for configuring TFS after you get it installed.
TFS 2008 SP1 Download
Also you will want the following
TFS 2008 Power Tools in particular there is a "Team Foundation Server Best Practices Analyzer" which you can run against the server before the install to make sure everything is patched correctly etc (and afterwards to make sure the install went properly). It will require Windows Powershell installed on the server as pre-req.
Also you will want Team System Web Access 2008 SP1 - (formerly Team Plain) which will allow you to access the features of TFS as a web application.
Here is a great guide for setting up TFS 2012 on Windows 8 machine with Visual Studio 2012
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/426135/Team-Foundation-Server-2012-RC-Install-Configure
Here's TFS 2012 on Windows Server 2012 with SQL Server 2012
http://blog.hinshelwood.com/installing-tfs-2012-on-server-2012-with-sql-2012/
See the link below for a condensed walkthrough:
Cliff's Notes for a Team System Install
VSTS2005 was quite challenging to install and configure correctly. I have heard 2008 is MUCH better, but have yet to try it yet. Be prepared to spend a fair bit of time on this and read everything before starting. However, don't loose heart, TFS is well worth the effort!!