If you get the above error while connecting to Team Explorer from either Visual Studio 2008, the reason “might be” Microsoft Communicator or Live Messenger installed on the machine and on top of it if you also have Team Foundation Server Power Tools installed. I have seen this error so far only with VS 2008 with TFS 2010. Somehow the Power Tools –> Team Members feature is trying to collaborate with the Microsoft Communicator members and throws below error as it might be failing to connect. Quick ......
Hello, Microsoft finally released the Team Foundation Service in late October 2012 after its long time in the preview phase. I was already using the TFS Preview which was free but I was happy to see Microsoft releasing the Team Foundation Service also FREE for upto 5 users. Isn't that great news? I know there are bunch of other free source control repositories (Github, Bitbucket, SVN etc.) out there but I somehow like TFS better. Also the other good thing about the final release was that I didn’t ......