I was searching for a plug-in that will integrate with StarTeam and allow user to check-in and check-out files directly through Visual Studio 2010 environment. I did found a StarTeam Visual Studio Client provides an integration that allows users of the Visual Studio IDE to manage their digital assets (files) and activities (requirements, tasks, defects) in their StarTeam repository from within the Visual Studio development environment. Unfortunately this client works only with VS 2008 and not with Visual Studio 2010 and this is the vision of IDE that is I will be using for one of the project that I am workign on. I would really appreciate if someone could guide me in getting StarTeam integration with VS 2010.
There are two types of integration you can use:
SCC Integration: This is a standard that lets any development environment talk to any source control provider, if they both support the standard. (Visual Studio & StarTeam both do.)
StarTeam Visual Studio Integration: This is sort of a plug-in to Visual Studio that lets you access StarTeam and adds some additional features.
SCC Integration should let any version of StarTeam talk with any version of Visual Studio. However, with the StarTeam Visual Studio Integration, newer versions don't support older versions of StarTeam.
For instance, the version of StarTeam Visual Studio Integration for Visual Studio 2010 only supports (I think) StarTeam 2009.
Even if you aren't able to use StarTeam Visual Studio Integration, SCC Integration should still work.
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We have an old MVC2 project stranded in Visual Studio 2010 and assigned to TFS 2010.
Is it possible to copy this project into VSTS and access VSTS in Visual Studio 2010?
Because it is an old project there is no need to migrate the version history.
What are my options?
Yes, you can access Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) from Visual Studio 2010, however, you will need two software updates:
Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 (KB2736182)
TFS 2012 compatibility update for Visual Studio 2010 (KB2662296)
Having said that, upgrading to Visual Studio 2017 is preferable if you can do that.
To bring your data into VSTS, the easiest way to do that is to use the TFS to VSTS migration tool, which providers an easy, high-fidelity migration into the cloud. However, since you don't require history, you can also perform a manual migration, where you simply check your assets into TFS directly.
I'm currently involved in a technology upgrade project in my company, and would like to know if VSS6.0 is compatible with latest Visual Studio 2015?
Thank you.
VSS is not included since VS 2010 due to performance issues. According to
Can I Use Visual Source Safe with Visual studio 2013?
and
Visual Studio 2015 Professional and Visual SourceSafe (VSS)
you can choose "Microsoft Visual SourceSafe" plugin from Tools -> Options -> Source Control.
I suggest you to use TFS/CVS/Git/SVN rather than VSS for better version control of your application.
I recently got a copy of Microsoft Test Professional 2013, where previously I used Visual Studio 2012. I'm unable to run any projects within Visual Studio 2013 - Shell Integrated, which comes with Test Professional 2013.
The development team have upgraded to Visual Studio 2013 with no issues and we have tried changing the project versions.
I have checked that I have the correct .net framework and mvc installed.
Should I be able to open the projects and if so what might be going wrong?
I'm looking at the MSDN subscription comparison (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/subscriptionschart.aspx) and am a bit confused. Regarding VS2010 Premium and Ultimate: what is the difference between the two? Both offer TFS but only Ultimate comes with Team Explorer. Can you use TFS without Team Explorer?
Ultimate comes with Team Explorer "Eaglestone" - an eclipse plugin. All of the versions offering TFS come with the visual studio Team Explorer.
The answer is a bit outdated now so here is an update and some context: Team Explorer is the rich client for Team Foundation Server. All Visual Studio 2010 (and later) editions come with Team Explorer built in. For previous versions of Visual Studio (2005 and 2008) it came as a seperate install. You can still download it for free from the Microsoft website and install it even if you don't have Visual Studio installed. Team Explorer "Eaglestone" is now branded as Team Explorer Everywhere; it is an equivalent rich client, but instead of running as a plug-in to Visual Studio, it is a plug-in for Eclipse. There used to be a seperate license fee for Team Explorer Everywhere, but it is now available for free.
I am just wondering on what version of Visual Studio 2010 to install (Professional or Premium) If there are a few people in the team with a mix of VS2010 professional/premium, would opening solution/project files be an issue, ie incorrect version or prompts to upgrade prjects..
Projects include: asp.net mvc, database and silverlight.
In general projects created by the same version of different editions are compatible with one another - if the edition installed lacks features necessary to load a given project, it will inform you of such and simply not load the project.