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TFS Notification Web Services - Project Template v.1.2

Over the past few weeks I've been getting more and more messages from people who can't seem to get v1.1 to work with Visual Studio 2005 SP1. Fortuitously for them, a long train delay last night gave me the opportunity to make some fixes that have been long overdue since v1.1 was released almost a year ago.

Visual Studio Project Template Dialog

Changes in this release

  • Rebuilt to work with Visual Studio 2005 SP1 and Visual Studio Orcas Beta 1
  • Changed from a Web Project to a C# Project.
  • Slight refactoring of the codebase
  • Updated the EndpointBase class to deserialize the XML message using an XmlReader rather than an XmlDocument.

Installation

For Visual Studio 2005:

  • Copy the "TFS Notification Web Services.zip" file to the directory "X:\Documents and Settings\YOUR_USER_NAME\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Templates\ProjectTemplates" and then open Visual Studio 2005 and select File > New Projects. From the "My Templates" section select "TFS Notification Web Services"

For Visual Studio Orcas Beta 1

  • Copy the "TFS Notification Web Services.zip" file to the directory "X:\Documents and Settings\YOUR_USER_NAME\My Documents\Visual Studio Codename Orcas\Templates\ProjectTemplates" and then open Visual Studio Orcas Beta 1 and select File > New Project. From the "My Templates" section select "TFS Notification Web Services"

For Windows Vista users the path "X:\Documents and Settings\YOUR_USER_NAME\My Documents" should be changed to "C:\Users\YOUR_USER_NAME\Documents"

You can download the updated Project Template from my ProjectDistributor Workspace.

Published 14 June 2007 09:23 by howard.vanrooijen

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Nung said:

I installed the TFS Notification Web Services and am using VS 2005 Version 8.0.50727.762 (SP.050727-7600) and Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server - ENU Service Pack 1 (KB926738) When I go to create a new project based on these templates, it tells me that The Project Type is not supported by this installation. Why not?
January 22, 2008 18:06
 

howard.vanrooijen said:

Hi,

This version should work against both VS 2005 and VS 2005 SP1. Did you follow the install instructions and copy the zip file into the specified folder, rather than extracting it? I know a few people made that mistake and reported similar issues.

/Howard

January 22, 2008 18:18
 

Nung said:

Thanks for your quick response Howard! I dropped the uncompressed zip file into my project templates folder and VS2005 sees the template just fine. The problem occurs when I go to FILE > NEW PROJECT and then select the TFS Notifications Web Services Template. It then displays a pop-up "The project file 'C:.....csproj' cannot be opened. The project type is not supported by this installation. I have the full blown VS 2005 installed and TFS Team Suite. I am running this on a TFS Server, if that matters.
January 23, 2008 14:10
 

howard.vanrooijen said:

Hi,

If you can send me an email via the "contact" link on this blog - I'll try and help you resolve the issue.

Thanks,

Howard

January 23, 2008 14:16
 

Mam said:

hi

I have successfuly installed the project, now i need some infos to how can i use it, for example send instant messages or notify any user that he has a new message.

thanx alot

February 27, 2008 10:59

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