TFS Interworking

[Doug Blake]

My colleague Nick Hounsome has posted elsewhere regarding an error message from TFS. I think we now understand why we get the error message, so this is a request from anyone who may have a work around.

We are developing a product using the latest board support package which requires us to use Windows Embedded Compact 7. We cant yet use 2013 because BSPs dont yet exist.

The dev env for this requires that we use Visual Studio 2008, which in itself does not have a TFS client. Instead, there is a tfs add-in (VS 9.0). Its this tfs add in that isn't supported by EA which tries to use the TF INFO command that the add in doesn't have.

You might say why not use VS2010 or later for EA/TFS but we have it on authority from our supplier that WEC7 development doesn't work with VS2010 installed.

We are going to start looking at virtual machines to isolate the tasks, but if anyone has any ideas, they would be gratefully received.

[Eve]

Could you please run tf.exe without any parameters and send back what it outputs? It looks to me like EA is failing to get the version number from the output and as a result is using TFS 2012 commands.

[Doug Blake]

Nick actually sent you the output on Friday, the start of which I repeat here.
c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC>"c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\TF.exe"
TF - Team Foundation Version Control Tool
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
As you can see there is no version info in the output!!
With later versions the output is
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\VC>tf
Microsoft (R) TF - Team Foundation Version Control Tool, Version 11.0.60315.1
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.