Visual Studio 2008: Can't connect to known good TFS 2010

Question

A freshly installed TFS 2010 is at http://serverX:8080/tfs.

A Windows 7 developer machine with VS 2008 Pro SP1 and the VS2008 Team Explorer (no

Answer 1

I'm surprised no one here has mentioned the Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 Forward Compatibility Update for Team Foundation Server 2010. I followed the directions above, but still was unable to connect; Installing the Forward Compatibility Patch finally let me connect.

Answer 2

To Connect Visual Studio 2008 to a TFS2010 server this is what it took for me to connect: Install TFS plugin; install VS2008SP1; install TFS compatibility update. Before I did this I was getting an error tf3002 Here are some details:

1. Install Team Explorer 2008 from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=0ed12659-3d41-4420-bbb0-a46e51bfca86. It's an iso file so I used MagicISO to mount it. After this when the source control options (Tools --> Options --> Source Control) will have TFS in drop down in addition to VSS.

2 Install VS2008SP1 - Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyId=FBEE1648-7106-44A7-9649-6D9F6D58056E

3 Install Compatibility Update - Visual Studio Team System 2008 Service Pack 1 Forward Compatibility Update for Team Foundation Server 2010 from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=cf13ea45-d17b-4edc-8e6c-6c5b208ec54

Also when I opened the Connect to TFS window (Tools --> Connect to TFS). After I entered in the complete path such as http://YourServerName:8080/so/TFSProjects including the http://. Also I noticed that when it's installed correctly on the Add TFS window when the http:// is typed in the Port # txtbox will be disabled. This question helped me & I Hope this answer helps.

Answer 3

Check out this article 'Connecting VS2008 to any TFS2010 Project Collection'.

The only catch here is that the author didn't mention that you need to install/reinstall Service Pack 1 'Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (Installer)' for Visual Studio 2008 after installing Team Explorer 2008. This will take care of the invalid characters error message when trying to connect.