Visual Studio 2010 Professional and Team Foundation Server 2012 Express

Question

I can't create a New Team Project from Team Explorer in VS 2010 Profesional because of the below error message:

TF30172: You are trying to create a team project either without required permissions or with an older version of Team Explorer. Contact your project administrator to check your permissions or to determine how to upgrade Team Explorer.

I'm an administrator in TFS and part of the "Team Foundation Adminstrators" group. What could I possibly be doing wrong?

Also, I've installed SP1 for VS2010 and the KB2662296 Hotfix.

Answer 1

Yes, you need VS2010 SP1, and the forward compatibility upgrade GDR patch to enable VS2010 to connect to TFS2012. However, the Team Explorer shipped with VS2010 and all its variants (beta, RTM, SP1) do not support creating a Team Project by design.

See Buck Hodges post:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/buckh/archive/2012/03/05/permission-error-with-creating-a-team-project-from-vs-2010-on-tfs-11-beta.aspx.

Buck asserts you will need Team Explorer 2012 just to create the Team Project, but afterwards it is safe to use Team Explorer 2010 for all other purposes. That's an important point.

• The VS2010 SP1 Link is http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=23691

• The GDR Link is http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29082

• The Team Explorer 2012 Link is http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30656 (note this will install the VS2012 shell as mentioned by Edward Thomson )

I've confirmed that with this setup you can create a Team Project with Team Explorer via the VS2012 shell and then connect to it afterwards in VS2010 Team Explorer.

Answer 2

This error message is indicating that Team Explorer 2012 is required to create a Team Project against Team Foundation Server 2012.

You should install Team Explorer 2012 in order to create your Team Project. If you do not have Visual Studio 2012 installed, Team Explorer 2012 will install as a standalone application that you can use to connect to TFS. This will be installed side-by-side with Visual Studio 2010, it will not upgrade your existing installation. As Allen notes in his answer, you can connect to a TFS 2012 instance from Visual Studio 2010. You need a matching Team Explorer version only to create a Team Project.

Answer 3

Install VS2010SP1 first and then the compat gdr patch to connect to TFS2012.