Team Explorer Everywhere - A Plug-in to access TFS from Eclipse (TeamBuild with Ant)

Comment posted by Undefined on Tuesday, July 20, 2010 6:47 AM

Good article.. I have a question regarding licenses for team explorer everywhere. We already have team explorer CAL purchased to use team explorer with TFS . Can the same license used here or do we need separate licenses

Comment posted by Subodh Sohoni on Wednesday, July 21, 2010 9:01 AM

Since the CALs are issued for accessing TFS and not for which client are you accessing it from, you can use the existing CAL to access TFS from TEE. What you should take care of is not to exceed concurrent connections to TFS that exceed the total CALs that you have.

Comment posted by Ismail Ahmed Syed on Friday, February 4, 2011 11:43 AM

I followed the way u showed but my build is failing when it is loading antcontrib.properties file whereas when i open the command prompt and run the build(ant build ) it works perfectly fine. I used the same user in both the cases(tfs build account), Can you please help me in this regard. I appreciate your help for helping me out

Comment posted by Sen on Monday, October 17, 2011 6:57 AM

Hello Sir,

Thanks for the post on eclipse plug in. I have a query related to eclipse IDE.
Currently we have written custom control and check in policies for WIN forms and web access. But we currently use windriver(eclipse IDE) tool to access TFS (use Team explorer everywhere) and here the custom control and policies we created are not reflected. Please let us know how to deploy the custom control we created as DLLs in eclipse plugin to reflect in IDE. Or whether we should write new custom control in JAVA..?

Thanks & Regards,
Sen

Comment posted by Subodh Sohoni on Thursday, November 10, 2011 2:12 AM

The custom controls of WIN Forms and web access written in .NET do not work for Eclipse even if you are working on MS platform. MS has published a Java SDK for TFS that has a sample of custom control for eclipse. You will find it at http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=22616. You will have to develope your own new custom controls using this SDK.

Comment posted by Gabriele on Wednesday, January 11, 2012 4:57 AM

Hi,
I am using TFS with the eclipse plugin (TEE), and build extension which is illustrated in this article. I found problems in the build. The result is 'partially succedeed', but I did not log on to refer to understand the reason for the error ..
how can I proceed?
this is my build.xml
<project name="ProvaBuild" default="init" basedir=".">
     <description>
         Sample JUnit Tests
     </ description>
   <! - Set global properties for this build ->

   <property name="project_name" value="junitSamples"/>
   <property name="src" location="src"/>
   <property name="build" location="bin"/>
   <property name="dist" location="dist"/>
   <property name="lib" location="lib"/>
   <property name="res" location="res"/>
   <property name="reports" location="reports"/>
  
   <! - Various names of the distributable files ->
   <property name="jar_name" value="${project_name}.jar"/>
   <property name="war_name" value="${project_name}.war"/>

<! - Supporting targets ->

<target name="init" description="initialize the build environment">
     <! - Create directory structures ->
<mkdir dir="${build}"/>
<mkdir dir="${lib}"/>
<mkdir dir="${dist}/lib"/>
<mkdir dir="${reports}"/>
<mkdir dir="${reports}/raw/"/>
<mkdir dir="${reports}/html/"/>
</ target>
  
</ project>

Comment posted by Imad Ghaleb on Monday, January 23, 2012 1:21 PM

Very Useful info. How one can build multiple Java projects on a build system with different JDK level?. Is there a way to set the JAVA_HOME variable in the build definition instead of defining it as Windows system variable?.

Thanks
Imad