I've visual studio 2013 express installed on an old computer without network connection. Now after 30 days, it requires me to sign in to online account to update the license, or else I won't able to continue to use it. Anyone knows how to update the license offline?
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I have Visual Studio 2013 and I have a number of projects in Visual Studio Online, but I still have some old projects that are in Visual Source Safe. It works fine on two pcs but we have a third that when you try to set you source control Visual Source Safe does not show up.
Doe anyone have any ideas on how to add Visual Source Safe to VS 2013 so it will show as a choice in the dropdown.
According to Microsoft support:
Visual Source Safe is no more is an active product and its no surprise
if the plugin is not available in Visual Studio 2013 as Microsoft
stopped supporting it long ago and its replaced by Team Foundation
Server. If you are still using Visual Source Safe, its recommended to
upgrade to Team Foundation Server.
You can use Team Foundation Server Express (up to 5 users) for free
and use the Visual SourceSafe Upgrade Tool to import your project
directly into TFS. Or buy a full server from $400 and up.
Alternatively, you can open a Visual Studio Online account (free for 5
users) and migrate your sources to the cloud. You can add additional
users for a monthly license fee.
If you are an MSDN subscriber or Microsoft Partner, your subscription
might actually include a full TFS license.
Source: https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/40136b63-96ab-4807-9599-ca80c3a7bb7a/how-to-open-visual-source-safe-in-visual-studio-2013-express?forum=tfsversioncontrol
Update : I've found that you have to install the VSS after VS2013 on your system. please reinstall it.
I installed Visual Studio 2013 Express for Web 30 days ago. I did not have access to this machine in the last two weeks and now the trail has expired. If i understand correctly you just need to sign in to your Visual Studio account from the application to extend this license. But the only thing i have access to is the screen Visual Studio shows me when starting the application.
This screen says:
License: 30 day trial (for evaluation purposes only)
This license has expired.
You are not able to update your license in this application.
I am behind a proxy but changed the VWDExpress config file as suggested as answer to other questions regarding extending the license behind a proxy. I have tried repairing Visual Studio and tried reinstalling it. Both did not change anything. I am wondering if anyone could help me what to try next.
I know VS 2010 Pro/Premium/Ultimate include TFS connectivity, does VS 2010 Express?
No it doesn't.
See this SO question (What is “missing” in the Visual Studio Express Editions?) - one of the bullet points is no Team Explorer support, meaning to TFS integration.
On this Microsoft page for VS 2010, you can see the the Pro edition with MSDN essentials subscription has none of the TFS features out of the box, suggesting that this is also the case for the express SKUs.
I'm not sure if you can install this http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=329
Though i don't know why you wouldn't be able to install TFS support for free, since microsoft provides a free plugin for Eclipse that you can use.
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=4240
If you log onto codeplex, it will give you a free key to use this.
Edit: The following link makes it seems like you can use it in VS
https://tfs.discountasp.net/KB/a843/visual-web-developer-20052008-and-visual-studio-2010-express.aspx
While Visual Web Developer 2005/2008 and Visual Studio 2010 Express will not directly integrate with Team Foundation Server, you can still use the Team Explorer application to connect to your server to check files out for editing.
Assuming that you have already
installed Visual Web Developer
2005/2008 or Visual Studio 2010
Express on your workstation, perform
the following step:
Download and install Microsoft Visual Studio Team Explorer 2010 - ISO.
I am trying to connect to my TFS 2010 RC server. When I try to connect I get a error message.
Here is a screen shot:
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This is the path I am using to connect: http://tfs2010test:8080/tfs/DefaultCollection
I have Team Explorer 2008 SP 1 installed.
I have read this question: Visual Studio 2008: Can't connect to known good TFS 2010. That is how I got my path that I tried.
I can connect just fine using Visual Studio 2010.
What am I missing?
Have you installed the forward compatibility update from here? Further details can be found here.
Here was my solution to get Visual Studio 2008 Team System to connect to TFS2010: (Beware convoluted).
Install Visual Studio 2008 Team Explorer
Uninstall Office 2007 (because of an incompatibility between Visual Studio 2008 SP1 installer and Office 2007)
Run the Microsoft Install Clean Up utility to remove all references to Office 2007 that did not get removed when uninstalling)
Re-Install Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1
Install Visual Studio Team System 2008 Service Pack 1 Forward Compatibility Update for Team Foundation Server 2010
Reinstall Office 2007 or go to OpenOffice
Access TFS2010 repository...
When I have added TFS servers before, I could not add the port in the URL. Have you tried this without the port, and allow discovery?
A few things to try:
Have you tried connecting with Team Explorer 2010?
Have you tried creating a new project collection?
On your server, open the TFS admin tool and confirm that you have permissions to use that collection.
Be aware, some options are just not available in Team Explorer 2008.
Let me know if you need help with the security/groups on the server. It was very confusing to me when I first tried to work with it.
Where is it possible to download trial of Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2005?
Microsoft is not offering it in Download section anymore.
Thank you for your answers.
The Visual Studio 2005 TFS trial is available to MSDN Subscribers. I don't believe it is generally available anymore, now that Visual Studio 2008 TFS is out.
If you have not already implemented TFS, then you should look at TFS 2008. It is much improved and a VS 2005 client can connect to it just fine. To download an 90-day trial version of TFS 2008 visit the following link:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=b0155166-b0a3-436e-ac95-37d7e39a440c
If you just wanted to play with TFS and Team System, then I would encourage you to download the pre-configured Virtual PC image as it will save you the time of installing the pre-requisites required for a full TFS installation. You can get the VPC here which will run until the end of the calendar year:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=72262ead-e49d-43d4-aa45-1da2a27d9a65
Is there any reason why you wanted TFS 2005 rather than the latest version?