I've set up the Team Foundation Server. I'm the Administrator with full Permissions on all groups.
I've created a new Collection in the Administration Console and "Allow" Create Projects in the Control Panel
I've installed the Team Explorer that Microsoft says is for VS2012.
When I try to create a "New Team Project" in VS 2012 Express for a Project that I want to add to the Collection I get the following error:
TF30172: You are trying to create a team project either without required
permissions or with an older version of Team Explorer...
I've read all the available online information on Team Explorer, they pretty much all skip straight to how to add/check-out/check-in project items to TF, but very inconveniently ignore the how to create a "New Team Project".
How the heck do I do that, when nothing works?
I can't download "Team Explorer 2013 RC" which was the other bit of advice, that no longer exists, I really do not want to install VS 2013 Express, I've wasted so much time with VS 2012 Express and that part of it is now working.
Why, oh why did Microsoft go down the Team Foundation/Team Explorer route when VSS was so easy to set up and manage, and then not allow VSS to be used with VS2012?
You need to create a Team Project using the same version of Team Explorer as your Team Foundation Server. If you have TFS 2013, then you need VS 2013; do not get the RC, the release has been out for a long time.
Do not bemoan VSS, it was a fine product in its day, but that day was over a decade ago.
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I am completely newbie to TFS. Need some help on Migration. We have a VS TFS 2015 and the requirement is to move a certain code with history and all the work items from current VS TFS 2015 to new VS TFS 2015. How can I achieve this. Any pointers will be of great help.
Just additional info. The current VS TFS 2015 was build by us on Azure and the new one is provisioned through Azure SAAS.
We don't widely support (as of August 3, 2016) importing your data from Team Foundation Server to Visual Studio Team Services. However, we have been working on a full-fidelity data import utility that will let you do this. It's currently in Private Preview and we're testing it out with a handful of customers at the moment. We've also shared some details with our Microsoft MVPs so if you have an MVP that is helping you, they will be able to help you migrate.
Feel free to vote on this User Voice item and we'll keep everyone updated there on our progress: Import data from TFS On-Premises
Tip: When the TFS to VSTS Data Import utility does become available, you'll want to make sure your TFS server is upgraded to the latest version of TFS including the latest update. At the moment, that would be Team Foundation Server 2015 Update 3.
You can use OpsHub Visual Studio Online Migration Utility.
OpsHub Visual Studio Migration Utility : Supports migration of source
code and work items from TFS 2010, TFS 2012, TFS 2013, and TFS 2015 to
Visual Studio Team Services.
New to StackOverflow so sorry if I'm doing this wrong. Trying to get set up with SharePoint 2016 Development. Moving from SP2010 and need to look into getting some things updated. Have a 2016 single server farm set up for evaluation/development and have VS2015 installed on machine, but cannot for the life of me get SP2016 development templates to show up in VS. I had them briefly after installing the Office Development Tools preview, but after upgrading it to update 2 they're gone again! Please help.
Also, looking for good information on converting SP2010 projects to SP2016 if that's possible.
You need to install: Microsoft Office Developer Tools Preview 2 for Visual Studio 2015
I'm looking for some advice. I need to develop some custom workflow activities for a SharePoint 365 online solution. To that extent I do not have a local install of SharePoint 2013. I am using Visual Studio 2012, and have the office developer tools for VS 2012 installed.
When I try to create an empty project for SharePoint 2013, I get the error stating:
SharePoint not installed. The required version of SharePoint
foundation 2013 or SharePoint server 2013 is not installed on this
system. To develop SharePoint solutions or browse SharePoint
connections in server explorer, SharePoint must be installed on the
local system. Make sure that the local server referenced by the
SharePoint project exists
Now, I understand that for SharePoint projects in the past that a local install was required, but with this being online, I do not have that luxury.
Ideally I'd like to identify a way in which I can create an empty project without the need for said local install.
Further to this, I have been able to create an "Apps for SharePoint 2013" project, into which I can create a custom workflow activity. I'm working through some excellent blog posts on how to develop custom activities and it seems to be working file to a point.
What I am now struggling with is that VS2012 is supposed to create an .actions4 file which I can edit to reflect what the workflow activity requires etc. I do not have this file, nor do I understand how I get it.
I would also appreciate information on how I can deploy this custom workflow activity to SharePoint Online so that I can use it in SharePoint designer workflows.
Appreciate there is a lot of asks here, but appreciate any help that people can provide.
Many Thanks,
Grant
Hope this link will help you to create workflows in office 365 . you cannot degug but you can allow visual studio to think that SP is installed on your machine.
https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/59065/how-visual-studio-checkes-that-sharepoint-has-been-installed-on-my-local-pc
I'm using Visual Studio 2012 Premium and couldn't find the section "My Work" in the Team Explorer to suspend my current work. My TFS is still on version 2010 ... does it have to be updated to see the "My Work" feature? Or how can I enable this section?
My Work is indeed a VS Premium feature. It does require TFS 2012 to activate, as it uses functionality that is new to the 2012 SDK.
On TFS 2012, you will have to settle on combining the work items and pending changes pages.
Yes, you need to be connected to a TFS 2012 server in order to see the My Work page. Also, I believe that My Work is a VS Premium feature only. You could test this by connecting your VS client to your account at tfspreview.com if you need a 2012 server to connect to.
I am setting up a VM with a brand new install of TFS 2012 using the RC just released. This is the first time we have tried to use TFS in my company and I need to upgrade some SourceSafe databases. I've also installed the RC for Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate Edition (everything but the MFC foundation classes) but I still can't find the VSSConverter.exe tool.
According to Google it's supposed to be in the Common7\Ide folder, but is nowhere to be seen. Admittedly the only internet links I can find at the moment are for VS2010 so they may be out of date, but I have scanned the entire C drive and still can't find VSSConverter.exe
ps. I know there is a "download and install VSS converter" link in the TFS Admin Console but that just takes me to the Microsoft home page! : http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx
VSSConverter is moving away from being a standalone tool and - as you noted - moving to be a part of the TFS Admin Console.
Unfortunately, the VSS -> TFS conversion experience did not ship as part of the TFS 2012 RC. It will instead be included in the released TFS 2012.
In the meantime, the VSSConverter that was included as part of TFS 2010 will properly migrate to a TFS 2012 instance. You will, however, need to install a 2010 instance just to run the tool.
If you do not require the full history, you could simply check-out your VSS databases and then check them into TFS. Another alternative is to install TFS 2010 and use VSSConverter to that database, then perform an in-place upgrade to TFS 2012.