Trouble getting Team Explorer in VS 2005 RC1 installation.
I have installed TFS Beta 3. When I installed VS2005 RC1 on the server machine, it has Team Explorer.
But when I did what I actually wanted to do, which was install RC1 on a different machine, it lacks the Team Explorer, connect to team foundation server menu item, etc. Based on older posts on this forum, I installed the Team Foundation Client from the TFS Beta 3 bits to see if this "plugged in" the missing items. The install said it was successful, but I still see no signs of Team features in my Visual Studio.
Thanks in advance for any help,
John Rhoads
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jr3465] at [2007-12-17]
Hello John!
These are the steps I've done to install VSTS RC1 and SQL 2005 September CTP.
We are 8 people working here and the procedure worked great!
NOTE: We worked with VSTS Beta 2 so we needed to uninstall it and same thing with SQL 2005 which was an earlier CTP...
Once this is done, these are the steps:
1- Check Windows Update
2- Install SQL 2005 September CTP
3- Remove SQL 2005 September CTP CD :-)
4- Insert Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite CD
5- Select Custom Installation and remove(uncheck) the last option(SQL Server Express)...since in step 2- we've installed SQL Server
6- When install is finished, and launching VSTS, you'll notice that the Team Explorer isn't available...Close VSTS
7- You need to install the "Team Foundation Client" from the TFS BETA 3 CD
8- Our machines have 1 GB of RAM and while making the installation, we were getting an error of insufficient RAM...Ignore this error message (if you get it)
9- ReOpen VSTS you now see the Team Explorer from the View menu.
10- What you need to do next, and this is only for people that had VSTS BETA 2 installed is *clear* the cache of the "Application Data" folder.
Here is a link of known issues for BETA 3...
(http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/teamsystem/tfsknownissues.aspx#TeamExplorer)
11- Once the cache is cleared...you should be able to connect
12- If not, check your Host file (C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc) and make sure you have the proper IP address for your TFS Server...13- Save and close the Host file and ReOpen VSTS, everything should be working now, you'll be able to "Add Existing Team Project"
So the trick was to clean the *cache* of the old VSTS Beta 2 and the host file since we changed server for TFS(hence why I say check for the proper IP address)
Hope this helps!
Sincerely
Vince
I followed this, but with SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition. Also when it came time to install Team Foundation Client, I got a message saying that I need to remove all pre-release software for it to install. The list of software it gave me included VSTS. What's up with that? Has anyone had any issues similiar to this?
I ended up giving up on this and formating my machine. I then installed the three pieces in the following order:
Team Foundation Client
VSTS 2005 RC1
SQL Server 2005
This seems to be functioning 100%.
Hope this helps anyone else that runs across this problem. Though I hate having to reformat!!
