Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012 MSSCCI Provider 32-bit

Our company have some legacy apps made with MS Visual Foxpro 9 SP2. We are migrating from Visual Source Safe to Team Foundation Server. We know we can only use Source control features with VFP and we wanted to use checkin policies to improve our work.

When we try to do checkin to any modified object the following error appears:

Error loading the Changeset Comments Policy policy (The policy assembly 'Microsoft.TeamFoundation.PowerTools.CheckinPolicies.ChangesetComments, Version=10.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' is not registered.). Installation instructions: To install this policy, follow the instructions in CheckForComments.cs.

First of all, we have the following config:

Server:
-TFS2012 Ver 50727.01
-SQL2012
-Windows Server 2008
Client:
-Visual FoxPro 9 SP2
-MSSCCI Provider 2012 32Bit
-VS2012 Update 2 (we use it for our .net projects)
-MS Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012 Update 1 Power Tools
-Windows 8


I have investigated in internet and so far I've encountered that we need to install TFS Server Power tools and it must match our VS version. I've installed but the error persists. I discovered that the installed TFS powertools corresponds to version 11.x and MSSCCI Provider despite being version 2012 is asking for assembly version 10.x. I tried to install the old 10.x version of MSSCCI but it requires to have installed a VS2010 product so I installed Team Explorer 2010 and I even Installed TFS PowerTools 2010 but The error remains. Please help me and tell me how to fix this issue. Thanks in advance for your help.

Hello Jairo,

Are you seeing the checkin policy error when trying to check-in using MSSCCI, Visual Studio, or both?  We haven't heard about any issues using policies with TFS2012 and VS2012, so it would be good to try to narrow this issue down to the MSSCCI provider.

Also, feel free to email me at mmitrik at Microsoft dot com so we can include others if needed.

Thanks,
Matt

Why do I get the following message when I attempt to install the MSSCCI Provider?

"Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 Team Explorer or its tools are not installed or registered. Please install or repair your Team Foundation Client Installation".

I am trying to get VS 2005 to connect to TFS 2012.

What else do I need to do?

Tom

@Tom - Did you install Team Explorer 2012 as the message described?  You need to install TE 2012 *in addition to* MSSCCI 2012. MSSCCI 2012 will not work without TE 2012.  It's a free download.

Hi, I wonder why Windows Server 2003 is still in the list of supported OS Version. AFAIK VS 2012 requires Win7 /Windows Server 2008 or above.
If MSSCCI Provider requires VS 2012, then 2003 can't work.
Or is there a way to get this TFS 2012 compatible MSSCCI provider to work with VS2010 without installing VS 2012 Teamexplorer?

The MSSCCI Provider requires VS Team Explorer 2012 which needs Windows 7 SP1 at minimum.

It seems the description is simply wrong.

We are getting two different errors when we try to connect TFS 2012 from VS 2005

1. TFS Error: Workspace xxx already exists in System 'yy'.
2. 'Text' is an invalid XmlNodeType, Line 1, position 749.

Environment:

TFS 2012 Server 
Windows 7 system
VS 2005
Team Explorer 2012
.net framework 4.5

Why the VS 2012 is mentioned in the Software Requirements?
If I need to connect the TFS 2012 from VS 2005, whether I need VS 2012 installed in my system?

Thanks
Ambily

Hi,
Installation returns this message: "Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 Team Explorer or its tools are not installed or registered. Please install or repair your Team Foundation Client Installation".
SO: XP SP3
VS: VS2005 SP1
TFSC: TFE 2005 SP1

What I forgot?

For previous versions, Visual Studio Team Explorer was enough.
What version of visual studio 2012 is needed as a minimum?