Visual-studio – Does Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 Include a TFS server

Sorry this is so confusing. Few things first of all.

VS 2010 Professional with MSDN comes with TFS. Not just TFS "Basic" but a full server license to TFS and a CAL (client access license) to access it. When you install TFS you can then pick what installation option you require. You can go for "Basic" which configures all the pre-requisites for you (such as IIS, SQL Express etc). Or you can go for Advanced if you want the more traditional TFS installation where you can install IIS, MOSS, full SQL Server with reporting services etc first and then install a full TFS that is integrated with these products. You can think of "TFS Basic" - as "Easy TFS". It's the same TFS, just easy to install (including on non server operating systems such as Windows 7 etc). You can move your project collection created on a basic installation of TFS to a full blown TFS installation in the future if you find you outgrow the basic installation.

Check-in policies are bits of client side code that run every time you perform a check in. The particular one that you selected actually runs some features in visual studio to do with code analysis. The problem you are running into is that those features are only available with the premium editions of Visual Studio and is not included in Professional. The feature on the TFS (server) side is just being able to run check-in policies. The feature on the client side is what the check-in policy is calling. Confusing I know.

My tip with check-in polcies would be to not enable them at first and switch them on gradually (see http://www.woodwardweb.com/vsts/policy_override.html for my rationale behind this).

Hope that helps.

Martin.

Check out this article 'Connecting VS2008 to any TFS2010 Project Collection'.

The only catch here is that the author didn't mention that you need to install/reinstall Service Pack 1 'Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (Installer)' for Visual Studio 2008 after installing Team Explorer 2008. This will take care of the invalid characters error message when trying to connect.