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For those who are getting error when open Excel documents stored on the TFS.

“TF84037: There was a problem initializing the Microsoft Excel Team Foundation Addin.  Re-installing the Team Foundation Client may be required.”

The reason is because the Office .Net programmability support is not installed.  You need to modify your installed version of Office and install this option.

1.  In Add/Remove programs, locate your Office application and select it.
2.  Click on the ‘Change’ button
3.  Select ‘Add or Remove features’ and click ‘next’
4.  Select ‘Choose advanced customization of applications’ and click ‘next’
5.  In the tree view, expand ‘Microsoft Office Excel’ and make sure the .NET Programmability Support option is set to ‘run from my computer’.
6.  Click ‘update’

On 13th February 2009, usergroups from SPAN, SCUG, SPUG and myVSTS had organized a community day in Microsoft’s office. The objectives to have this community day are:
1. To have a technology update session for the community members on various technologies, including System Center, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft SharePoint and Visual Studio Team System.
2. Enable the community members from different user groups to get to know each other in the networking session.

In total, we had 4 tracks during the breakout sessions: System Center, SQL Server, Visual Studio Team System and SharePoint Server.

Attendees were listening to the keynote session.

Usergroup members were listening to the SQL session in one of the tracks.

Thanks for the speakers: Sin Min, CK Phua, KB Lim, Ervin Loh, Wei Kheng and Patrick. And thanks to the supporters who helped out in the events, Walter, Raymond, Keong Yee, Moy, Yu Tsing, Zhariff and Leo.

Some shots during the event.

Of course, there is food for the attendees. This round, we were getting PIzzas…Yes, is pizza again. Simple and easy to handle for the organizers

Speakers during the events (KB, CK and Patrick)

For those using Team Foundation Server 2005 or 2008, you might still have .NET 1.1 applications that need to be maintained in your organization. The good thing is you can still use MSSCCI provider for TFS 2005 or MSSCCI provider for TFS 2008 installed on your Visual Studio 2003 machines and check in your .NET 1.1 applications to the TFS. At least, you have the TFS as a single repository for all the source code.

How about the TeamBuild in TFS, can that apply to .NET 1.1 applications? If you are using the TeamBuild to build your source code in TFS, you might be wondering, wouldn’t it be good if I can use the TeamBuild to build my .NET 1.1 applications? However, the answer is “NO”!! Team Build doesn’t support .NET 1.1 applications by default.

There are few options you can do:
1. Update your project to Visual Studio 2005 and above projects. The MSBuild Extras – Toolkit for .NET 1.1 (MSBee) allows .NET 1.1 builds but requires that your projects and solutions be upgraded to Visual Studio 2005.
2. If you cannot upgrade the .NET 1.1 applications to Visual Studio
2005 projects and solutions, you can use a custom post-build step to compile the .NET 1.1 applications.
See Nagaraju’s blog entry at http://blogs.msdn.com/nagarajp/archive/2005/10/26/485368.aspx give you a heads up on how to enable TeamBuild for .NET 1.1 applications.

The Layered Architecture Sample is updated and you can download from codeplex now: LayerSample January 2009 Release (now comes with ADO.NET EF).

For more info, visit Serena’s blog post.

myVSTS had a monthly gatheirng on 20 Jan 2009. This time, we invited Ervin Loh, from K365 Labs to speaks on “Version Control in Team Foundation Server”

The turn up was quite good, in total we have 30 people attended the event regardless of heavy raining.
After the Pizza  dinner, we started the session by Ervin.
Some shots during the session…..

Thank you for the all the MVP in supporting the event. [Walter, Keong Yee, Kok Chian & Yee Jie]

myVSTS is going to have a Jan’09 Gathering on 20th January 2009. This time, we invited Ervin Loh, Software Architect from K365 Labs to talk about the “Tips and Tricks to Implement and Deploy Team Foundation Server Version Control.

For future updates on myVSTS, you may join the myVSTS facebook group

Came across this blog’s post by Brian Keller and learnt about the “Free Download Manager” tool. It is pretty useful to download the VPC, as:
- Auto-resume support for interrupted downloads.
- Multiple simultaneous download streams for (usually) a much faster download experience.
The most important is, it is FREE!!
You can download the software from here.

To get all the download links for VPC VSTS 2008 and Visual Studio 2010, pleas visit this url link posted by Brian.

 
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