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Connect to TFS via Client Object Model

Here is a simple example of how to connect to a Team Foundation Server and display some of its properties.

To start we need to fire up VS 2005 and create a new console application.

TFS Authentication

Say you built an application that connects to TFS and you want a dialog box to appear if a user is not authorized to connect to TFS. To do this is quite simple. There are two methods you might have seen when you are playing with the TeamFoundationServer object, Authenticate() and…

IEventService: Filter Expressions, Event Types

When playing around with this Interface you will notice that it is very easy to subscribe and unsubscribe to events via the TFS Object Model.
The method signature for Subscribing to an event is:

Upgrading Team Foundation Server to SP1

So watch out for the mysterious 28002 Error Unknown. It really took me a little while to figure this one out. I was updgrading a client’s TFS server and they are using TFS Workgroup Edition and I was getting this annoying error when installing the KB919156…

How To — Delete a Team Project in Team Foundation Server

Just as a reminder… The simplest way to delete a team project in TFS is:

1. Open the Visual Studio 2005 Command Prompt

No Commands Available in Source Control Explorer

Okay… so in hindsight this is so stupid but I only post so it won’t cause you as much time as it did me!

So I’m in VS 2005 after installing the Orcas Beta 1 and I needed to get something from the Team Foundation Server……