TFS Management: Connecting VS2008 and TFS2010 Project Collections

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November 27th, 2009
by Olga Belokurskaya

Hi!

Did you know you can easily connect to any Project Collection of TFS 2010 from TFS 2008 server? Well, direct connection is possible. The only limitation is that the function is available for TFS 2008 SP1. So, those lucky guys who works with have the Service Pack1 o VS 2008 installed will have no problems with TFS management in terms of working with 2010th version’s Project Collections from TFS 2008.

You’ll need the full URL of the Project Collection you’re going to work with. Enter it in the connection box in the format like following: http://[tfsserver]:[port]/[vdir]/[projectCollection]

As in TFS 2010 you are able to specify a virtual directory that it will run under, so with “tfs” being a default, you can have the same ports for everything.

In other words, if your tfs server name is “tfs01.domainname.com” and you take the default vdir of “tfs”, all you need is to add the name of the Project Collection you want to work with. As a result, you get the URL looking like this: http://tfs01.domainname.com:80/tfs/MyNewCollection.

And that’s it.

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