We're rolling out the VSTS Azure solution enterprise wide and have some users that will need to use a Citrix environment. Does anyone know if the TFS Office Addin (Office 2016) for work item updates, etc will work in a Citrix environment?
I know it installs to
C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\Team Foundation Server\15.0\x86\TFSOfficeAdd-in.dll
Well, you can try below things to use the TFS Office Add-in on your Citrix VMs (Windows only):
Install Microsoft Office (Office 2016 in your scenario), then install
Visual Studio or at least install the Team Explorer, the TFS
Office Add-in will automatically integrate to office.
If you don't want to install Visual Studio/Team Explorer, then you can use the TFS
Office Integration Installer (Download from here). This new
installer just includes the Office integration component (Excel,
Project, etc) and is therefore lighter weight. See this blog : TFS
Office Integration Installer
You can reference this blog for details : Work with VSTS (or TFS) Work Items from Excel without installing Team Explorer
If you cannot see the Team ribbon in excel, you can refer to below article for troubleshooting: TFS-Office integration issues
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We have a Microsoft word add-in that is working fine on the majority of pc's.
On a particular windows 7 pc, it has the visual studio 2010 tools for office installed correctly.
But when a user creates a new template word document, they get teh following error:
The customization assembly could not be found or could not be loaded.
You can still edit and save the document. Contact your administrator
or the author of this document for further assistance.
We have tried unloading all dependencies but still does not make any difference.
This is an issue effecting a small amount of windows 7 pc's with office 2016 installed. It seems to be pc related rather than the application.
Usually, the reason behind such an error is that the permissions for loading the VSTO solution are missing. One thing that often gets "missed" when deploying VSTO solutions is that the document must be in a "trusted location". You might want to check that this is the case by looking in the Word "Trust Center" (in the Options). You also need to be sure you've installed the correct version of the VSTO run-time for the version of Windows and Office. Read more about that in the Troubleshooting Run Time Errors in Office Solutions article.
Also it may indicate that you didn't include all required dependencies to your add-in's installer (any platform-specific assemblies). Something is missing on the target machines, so I'd suggest looking for any difference between machines. You can add the .NET Framework, the Visual Studio Tools for Office runtime, and the Office primary interop assemblies to your Setup package as prerequisites that are deployed with your Office solution. For information about how to install the primary interop assemblies, see Configuring a Computer to Develop Office Solutions and How to: Install Office Primary Interop Assemblies.
The required steps for deploying Office solutions are described in the following articles:
Deploying an Office Solution by Using ClickOnce
Deploying an Office Solution by Using Windows Installer
You can use the event viewer in Windows to see error messages that are captured by the Visual Studio Tools for Office runtime when you install or uninstall Office solutions. You can use these messages from the event logger to resolve installation and deployment problems. For more information, see Event Logging for Office Solutions.
See Troubleshooting Office Solution Deployment for more information.
I am on a mac machine and I'm planning to connect to a TFS git source control, I have a collection under the companies' TFS server, but I'm unable to create team projects in order to push my code to.
I have tried the following:
Team Explorer Everywhere ( Eclipse plugin ), doesn't have the add feature
Team Explorer web access
Is there a way to achieve this without having visual studio and a windows machine ?
Regrettably, no. Team Project Creation involves many steps and includes things like setting up SQL Reporting Services and a Sharepoint site, the clients for which only exist on Windows.
To create a new Team Project on an on-premises Team Foundation Server installation, you will need to use Visual Studio on Windows. (Note that this is not true for Visual Studio Online, though, which allows you to create a new Team Project on the web, since it does not support SQL Reporting Services or Sharepoint).
Was wondering if anyone has had success with getting a local TFS 2010 build server to perform builds for a project hosted in Visual Studio Online?
We have some legacy components (and some more recent .NET components) in our build (VB6, NSIS) and we have XP machines running TFS 2010 which can build these (we also have reasons to want to perform the build under an x86 OS).
Moving to Visual Studio Online, we had hoped to be able to keep our existing TFS 2010 build servers (or clone the VMs at least) and just point them at the cloud; however running the TFS 2010 installer and its setup wizard does not seem to work; even after installing TFS 2010 SP1 and the Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Team Foundation Server Compatibility GDR.
The problem seems to be that TFS 2010 does not recognise MSDN accounts as the credentials for the connection to TFS; I can get as far as entering the URL for our VS Cloud, selecting the project, and then proceeding through the wizard to specify the build controllers and agents, and the user the service runs under, but the verify step then fails saying that the account the build server runs under (I have tried my personal account and Network Service - MSDN accounts are refused) does not have permission within our Visual Studio Online project.
I have seen that other versions of TFS allow a separate MSDN account to be specifies for the Visual Studio Online credential, but even after installing SP1 and the hotfix this does not seem to be supported under TFS 2010.
Online searches for this have been unhelpful.
Does anyone have direct experience of this kind of setup?
This might sound like a silly question but is there a manual or a guide on how to set up Team Foundation Server 2010 in Visual Studio 2010 Premium or Ultimate? It comes built-in right?
I've only got up to the Server list part. It's asking me to select a TFS server and port, but I don't think I have one. All I have installed is Visual Studio 2010. According to this product comparison page, TFS 2010 should come pre-installed with Visual Studio 2010.
Team Foundation Server is the source control server application. It is not the same as Visual Studio 2010 Premium/Ultimate.
In order to use TFS, you must install it on a machine on your network, then connect to it using the client, which is what comes preinstalled with Visual Studio.
Back in 2008, you'd have to download the TFS Client separately and install that in order to connect Visual Studio to a TFS instance. This might be what's leading to your confusion.
No, it doesn't come built in. Team Foundation Server is a separate product from Visual Studio; the (slightly misleading) table on the page you linked does indicate that TFS "can be purchased separately."
I have Visual Studio 2010 installed on my Windows XP development machine along with Office 2007 Professional and Office 2010 Professional. I am trying to develop several add-ins for Office 2007; however, I prefer to use Office 2010 on a day-to-day basis.
How do I set Visual Studio 2010 to install the add-in and open Word 2007 when I press debug? Currently, Word 2010 opens, but does not recognize the add-in. Unless I have to, I would like to keep Office 2010 installed.
I don't know the specific answer to your question, but I am running Office 2010 and still working on Office 2007 add-in development.
My solution to this problem has been virtual machines. I don't do any development work on my laptop's primary OS. I don't even have Visual Studio installed there, but I am running Office 2010 and really like it so far.
For development I've got dozens of different VMs with various configurations of OS and Office version and other 3rd party software that I need to integrate with. I'm currently using Windows 7 and the new version of Windows Virtual PC, but I started this practice when I was using Windows XP and Virtual PC 2007.
One benefit of this is that if something goes wrong on one of my VMs, it doesn't bring down my whole machine.
I also don't start from scratch each time I need a new VM. I've got base images with only the OS installed, as well as OS + Office and OS + Office + Visual Studio, but nothing else. That way, whenever I need a new VM, I just make a copy of the base image that's closest to what I need and go from there. The only limitation is that the base images can't be joined to a domain, but that's not a big deal for me.
I would encourage you to try this yourself. It works great.