Using Team Foundation Server 2010 from Visual Studio 2005 and 2008

On my project the TFS server has just been upgraded, ready for us to replatform the software onto .Net 4.0. In the meantime we're still working on a mixture of Visual Studio 2005 (for BizTalk 2006 R2) and Visual Studio 2008 (for the rest of the .Net and database code).

Team Foundation Server 2010 is not compatible with Visual Studio / Team Explorer 2005 and 2008 without the compatibility upgrade.

In order to install the compatibility pack for Visual Studio 2008 go here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=CF13EA45-D17B-4EDC-8E6C-6C5B208EC54D&displaylang=en

In order to install the compatibility for Visual Studio 2005 go here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=22215E4C-AF6F-4E2F-96DF-20E94D762689&displaylang=en

Workspace issues

Once you have connected to the new TFS server and mapped your projects back, you should be able to map your workspaces without any problems.

However, you might find that your workspaces do not work. This is especially an issue in Visual Studio 2005, which seems not to recognise the workspace that you have reapped the workspace. If this is the case, run the following command from the VS2005 Command Prompt:

tf.exe workspaces /remove:*

Then get latest on your source branch. It should be OK.