CODEWITHSUNDEEP
visual-studio-2012tfs
grimmus
grimmus

Reputation: 513

Team members panel not displaying in VS2012 with TFS power tools

I have VS 2012 professional update 4 and the TFS power tools installed. In team explorer i see the usual items (pending changes, work items, builds, reports, documents, web access, settings) but nothing new because of the power tools. We have a number of groups in the team project with active members. How can i view the team members panel in the team explorer ?

I think we are running TFS 2012 but i cannot be certain. How can i check what version of TFS we are running ? I assumed there would be an error if it was 2010

Thank you for any advice

I checked the following links but they did not help me

Where is the "Team members" panel in Team Explorer 2012

Team members power tools 2012 with TFS 2010

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2263

Answers (1)

jessehouwing
jessehouwing

Reputation: 114641

The TFS Team Collaboration tools for Visual Studio 2012 and up only work with TFS 2012 and higher (including Visual Studio Online). They do not show when connected to TFS 2010 because the data model changed between 2010 and 2012 and the TFS Team Collaboration tools are not backwards compatible. This means you need to use Visual Studio 2010 unfortunately to access the Team options, or upgrade TFS 2010 to 2012 or higher.

You need to install the version that matches your Visual Studio version. If you're using 2010 and 2012 you need to install them side by side (you can do this by unchecking the Powershell and Explorer Integration in the older versions and leaving these enabled in the most recent versions of the Power Tools.

In Visual Studio, make sure you have the TFS Team Collaboration tools listed and is enabled in the "Extensions and Updates" screen. If it's not, try removing and re-installing the Power Tools:

Extensions and Updates listing TFS Team Collaboration Extension

Upvotes: 2

Related Questions