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MSSCCI Provider and SQL Management Studio

I have just installed the lastest MSSCCI Provider with hopes to use it with SQL Management Studio 2005. The install seam to go fine. I have set "Team Foundation Server MSSCCI Provider" as the source control plug-in. I can see the File->Source Control menu which has two options:

1. Open From Source Control

2. Launch Team Foundation Server MSSCCI Provider

One issue and one question.

If I choose "Open From Source Control" I get a dialog for connecting to TFS. My TFS server is properly defined but when I press OK to connect I get the follow error dialog box. It states: Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client.TeamFoundationServer..ctor(System.String, System.Net.ICredentials) the only option is to press OK but nothing happen after that.

What is the purpose of "Launch Team Foundation Server MSSCCI Provider"? When I select this it launches a new copy of Visual Studio 2005. Even after launching VS the issue I described above still exists.

Addtional Info:

I have been successfully using VS2005, Team Foundation Explorer and TFS for months.

Scott

ScottPGlover

Hello,

The error you are getting looks like mismatch between the apis' version of tfs OM. Two questions arise:

do you have RTM version of Team Explorer on your box? The error you are getting happened quite often when using Msscci against Beta3. Have you used beta3 and then upgraded to RTM, or have you installed RTM from the beginning?
just for the sake of sanity please check if your Msscci Provider is 1.1 (readme.txt in the install directory)

"Launch Team Foundation Server MSSCCI Provider" is a Msscci way to bring up external client tool, in case of TFS it is Team explorer or Visual Studio 2005.

Thanks

Michal Malecki

Michal,

Thanks for the reply.

First I just want to clarify what you mean by "apis' version of tfs OM"? Specifically what is "OM"?

I do have the 1.1 release of the MSSCCI Provider as determined by looking at the Readme file.

I did previously have Beta releases of Visual Studio and possibly Team Explorer on my workstation. I know there were many issues with the beta releases and that you had to be very careful to fully remove them before installing the production releases.

How do you determine the version of Team Explorer? If I look at the entry in "Add or Remove Programs" it is listed as "Microsoft Visual Studio Team Explorer - ENU". If I look at the "About Microsoft Visual Studio" information it states that I have VS 2005 Version 8.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200) and that Team Explorer is one of the installed products.

I thought I was running all of the lastest production releases of VS and Team Explorer; would the above information lead you to believe otherwise?

Scott

ScottPGlover

Hello,

I'm sorry that I have written it in such a confusing way. What I wanted to say is that the error can be caused by the difference in the constructor signature between TeamFoundationServer class which the Msscci was built against (the RTM) and the one that is loaded when you start the Msscci provider.

Please go to "About Microsoft Visual Studio" dialog, select Visual Studio 2005 Team Explorer, in the Product deails you should see version of the Team Explorer. What is it?

Next please, go to GAC using the command prompt (or file manager different the Windofile ws Explorer) - "cd /d c:\WINDOWS\assembly\GAC_32\Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client\8.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a" and check size of the Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client.dll - I'm pretty sure on RTM it was 163.840 B

Michal Malecki

Michal Malecki - MSFT

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