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Team Explorer Everywhere 2013 is Available

Brian Harry MS 3 Nov 2013 3:21 AM

Among the deluge of Visual Studio 2013 releases in October, we shipped the 2013 release of Team Explorer Everywhere –

updating the experience for team members working in Eclipse and/or on non‐Windows environments. Team Explorer

Everywhere includes an Eclipse plug‐in, a cross‐platform command line client, and a Java SDK for building custom tools

that access TFS.

In addition to a good number of bug fixes, the 2013 release significantly improves the Team Explorer experience and adds

new capabilities to both the Team Foundation Version Control and Git version control experiences.

You can download Team Explorer Everywhere 2013 from the Download Center or install the TFS plug‐in for Eclipse from

directly within your Eclipse IDE update site URL: http://dl.microsoft.com/eclipse/tfs . If you run into any problems

installing or using any of the TEE components, visit the Eclipse and Cross‐Platform Tools forum.

Some highlights from the 2013 release:

Improved Team Explorer with dockable views

The Team Explorer view in TEE was greatly improved in the 2013 release. The look now matches the much improved look

of the Team Explorer view in Visual Studio. TEE borrowed some of the nice organizational and navigational enhancements

added in Visual Studio as well. Quick access is provided to the most commonly used functions using a context menu that

appears when you right‐click on a tile. For example, right‐clicking on the Builds tile makes it easy to view completed or

queued builds. We have also increased the number of places where you can launch into the web access portal, which

saves time when needing to access a function that might only be available from the web.

Dockable views have also been added. You can now undock the Pending Changes and Builds views and position them

anywhere within the workbench window. Both views also now appear under Window > Show View, which makes it

possible to add these views to another perspective. For example, you can show the Pending Changes right in in the Java

perspective and have quick access to view and check‐in your pending changes.

Find in Source Control

The Find in Source Control feature, which was previously shipped in the Power Tools, has now been fully integrated into

the TEE product. This feature enables quick searching for files and folders in source control, with filtering by name, path,

or check out status. This makes it particularly easy to find files that are currently checked out by any user or a specific user

and/or under a path. Once results are returned, you can check out a file for edit, undo a pending change, view history,

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view properties, open in Source Control Explorer, or copy its full path to the clipboard.

Note: check out status and the ability to check out a file for editing in the results view are only available if the Show

checkout status checkbox was checked when the search was performed.

Add to Source Control

In TEE 2013 RTM, we significantly improved the experiences around adding files to TF source control. The UI was rebuilt as

a multi‐page wizard instead of a dialog. The new a wizard has several big improvements including support for adding

symbolic links to source control, creating workspace mappings directly when files to non‐mapped source control folders

are added, automatically filtering out local files that are already in source control, and importing files from local folders

which are outside of workspace mappings.

Symbolic links

With 2013, TEE now supports symbolic link symlink transparently on Linux‐based operating systems. Just like regular

files, symbolic links can be added to source control and changes like add, edit, and delete can be detected, pended, and

subsequently updated in source control. Developers have the full capability version control when working with symlinks

history, branching, merging and when symlinks are downloaded from version control, they are created as symbolic links

in the file system.

Import for Projects in Git repositories

To make it easy to start working with code hosted in Git repositories on TFS, TEE 2013 includes a wizard for cloning and

importing projects into your workspace. This wizard enhances the base import wizard provided by the Eclipse EGit tools

and provides the ability to clone multiple repositories at one time useful for large projects where code is spread across

multiple repositories . For repositories hosted on Team Foundation Service, the wizard guides you to setup alternate

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credentials, which is required since the EGit tools do not support federated authentication like TEE does. Once alternate

credentials are setup and stored in the Eclipse Secure Storage the wizard will do this for you , you will not be prompted to

re‐supply credentials as you work with the EGit tools. The wizard does the following:

1. Clones one or more Git repositories from TFS to your local workstation

2. Detects and imports Eclipse projects found in these cloned repositories

3. Sets up connections to cloned repositories in EGit

Integration with Eclipse EGit tools

To support working with Git repositories in TEE, we made the decision to leverage and extend the existing Eclipse EGit

tools these tools are included in the most popular Eclipse packages and are well‐integrated into Eclipse . A connection to

a remote repository hosted in TFS can be manually configured in EGit note: make sure to use alternate credentials when

setting up your connection to a repository hosted in Team Foundation Service or is setup when you use the import wizard

provided by TEE. Once this connection is established, you can use the EGit tools to perform basically any Git function, like

committing, pushing, and creating new branches.

To see the full set of EGit tools, open the Git Repository Exploring perspective under Window > Open Perspective >

Other , find your repository, and right‐click. Right‐clicking on a file or folder in the Navigator, Package Explorer, or other

workspace views will show resource‐level options like Commit under the Team sub‐menu.

I encourage you to download the newest version of TEE and start exploring these new features. As always, your feedback

to the forum is always appreciated. We are continually enhancing TEE, and have some really cool stuff planned for the

next updates. Stay tuned.

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Richard Stelman3 Nov 2013 3:38 PM#

michael

4 Nov 2013 5:17 AM

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Brian Harry MS

4 Nov 2013 5:54 AM

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Richard Stelman

4 Nov 2013 6:26 AM

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Durval Ramos

4 Nov 2013 10:18 PM

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Edward Thomson

11 Nov 2013 2:40 PM

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Jay Maier

9 Jan 2014 1:17 PM

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WANG Yijin

5 Feb 2014 8:50 AM

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Brian

Do we have branch visualization and changeset tracking in eclipse with the 2013 release?

Hi looks great. Is the TFS2013 Everywhere compatible with TFS2012 Server Installation?

Best regards Michael

@Richard, Unfortunately, not yet. Those are still on our backlog. The big thing in that category we are working on

now is the ability for Eclipse users to start and participate in code reviews.

@Michael, Yes, Team Explorer Everywhere 2013 will work with TFS 2012.

Brian

Thanks for the confirmation Brian. It's really hard to get Visual Studio explorer installed on our developers

machines, devs run on ubuntu, so can I add a +1 on the branch visualization backlog item I'm sure you have

millions and millions of items on your backlog ?

Honestly, we don't use TFS for code reviews as we can't get metrics out of TFS for LOC reviewed, LOC in review, etc.

We use a third party tool.

I am assuming it doesn't work well on a MAC.

I take my answer on my email address.

Lee Parlett

TFS2013 Everywhere is great tool for developers integrated of others IDE with developers Visual Studio in same

group

@[email protected] Works great on a Mac.

With the new "symbolic links" feature, I assume that it will work like it did with VSS where I could link several of the

same files together that are in different locations and that way when I update a single linked file in one location and

check it in, it will update it to the new version in all locations? I use TFS 2010 so if TEE 2013 is compatible with TFS

2010 like it says on the website, how do all clients know about linked files? I would think that there would have to

be an update on the TFS side otherwise how would all clients know whether a file is linked or not?

We setup our own TFS 2013 server to integrate with Active Directory. We are looking for a way to work with Active

Directory Authentication in Eclipse.

The command line git works fine with the TFS git repository. However, we can not authenticate in Eclipse.

Do we need to do something in our TFS server, similar to "Enable Alternative Authentication" in TFS online?

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WANG Yijin

5 Feb 2014 9:10 AM

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Will Smythe

5 Feb 2014 9:51 AM

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WANG Yijin

6 Feb 2014 7:45 AM

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WANG Yijin

6 Feb 2014 7:50 AM

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Martin Woodward

6 Feb 2014 8:15 AM

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WANG Yijin

6 Feb 2014 9:46 AM

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E Fisher

22 Feb 2014 9:33 PM

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Will Smythe

24 Feb 2014 6:46 AM

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2 May 2014 3:04 PM

To be more specific about my previous post. People working on Windows is fine with egit connecting to TFS git. It

seems that Windows OS handles the authentication well.

However, people working on Mac can not use egit to connect to TFS git. It comes with the error: authentication not

supported. Do we have a way to let Mac+Eclipse work with on‐premise TFS git?

@WANG Yijin ‐ you can enable basic authentication in IIS see technet.microsoft.com/.../cc772009 v=ws.10 .aspx .This allows users to authenticate with TFS using their domain credentials from non‐Windows or non‐NTLM

enabled clients using basic auth. No additional setup is required by individual users i.e. users do not need to setup

alternate credentials ‐‐ they just use their domain credentials . Since basic auth credentials are passed in the clear,

you definitely should enable HTTPS.

Will Smythe

Hi Will,

I successfully enabled https for my TFS in IIS 7. I can access the https site from my Win8+IE browser.

While I try to enable Basic Authentication. There's no that choice. As I double click on Authentication, there are only

4 listed: Anonymouse, ASP.NET Impersonation, Forms and Windows Authentication. As I can see, TFS enabled onlyWindows Authentication and disabled the other three.

The link you sent me didn't tell me how to add "Basic Authentication" to the list.

The IIS was the IIS automatically installed on my Windows Server 2008 R2 while installing TFS 2013.

As I am working to solve the previous problem. Do you have a way to make OS X work well with Active Directory? I

mean single logon using AD identity, managed by Domain Controllers and work well with the AD authentications,

NTLM or Kerbose?

@WANG Yijin ‐ you'll want to enable Kerberos on your TFS Server and then bind your Apple OS X machine to the

Windows domain. While newer versions of OS X have support for AD login, some customers also use third party

products like Centrify. Team Explorer Everywhere has some native code that allows it to integrate with the native

Kerberos system on OS X, AIX, HP‐UX, Solaris and Linux and use that to authenticate with TFS if Kerberos is enabled

in IIS on the server.

@Martin Woodward

Hi Martin,

I just tried to join the Mac to my Active Directory and logon with my domain account. The identity works well with

file shares SMB and some other. However, it does not work while I access my TFS git repository in EGit in Eclipse.

BTW, the Mac requires Domain Admin privilege while joining to the domain, which is a little bit not‐so‐safe to me.

While, Windows usually only require Domain User privilege to achieve this.

Thanks,

WANG Yijin

Did anyone else lose inline access to their Workspaces selector after installing this? Or is it just me?

@E Fisher ‐ try running the tf workspaces command to refresh the local workspace cache. If this doesn't work or if

you are seeing something else, ping me directly: wismythe AT microsoft.com

Will

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Francesco North

15 May 2014 4:00 AM

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Brian Harry MS

15 May 2014 5:12 AM

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Marcello

3 Jul 2014 10:45 AM

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Mireille

3 Jul 2014 12:18 PM

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Marcello

4 Jul 2014 1:52 PM

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Mireille

7 Jul 2014 6:50 AM

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Dianne Phillips

10 Jul 2014 9:37 AM

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Brian, one of our Java teams has recently installed the "Team Explorer Everywhere 2012" plugin and I noticed the

"The Find in Source Control feature" was missing from their context menu. Based on your comment about this

feature being previously shipped in the Power Tools, I searched for Power Tools for the "Team Explorer Everywhere

2012" plugin but didn't find one. Is there one?

Thanks!

Hi,

How do we report bugs with TEE?

I am using it with Eclipse Kepler SR‐2. I have noticed that when you delete a source/header file in the project view

in eclipse, it remains in the pending changes in TFS. If you then try to checkin the changeset, TFS won't allow it

because it can't find the file. You then have to remove the deleted item from the pending changes.

@Francesco, You can use Connect: connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio Just choose the Team Foundation Server

category and it will get routed to the right people. I'll find out why we don't have a TEE category.

Brian

Hello,

I downloaded the command line tools and I am using the command line tool included

in TEE‐CLC‐12.0.1 tf.exe and the login info /login: is NOT saved even when I set the

TF_AUTO_SAVE_CREDENTIALS environment variable.

Thanks,

Marcello

Downloads:

www.microsoft.com/.../details.aspx

Hi Marcello,

are you running on windows, if so then we don't support storing credentials on windows. if you are running on

other platforms please let me know.

Thanks

Mireille

@Mireille, I run tf.exe under Windows. Please add that feature in the next release.

Thanks,

Marcello

@Marcello

I will make sure your feedback goes on our backlog.

Thanks

Mireille

I am using tf on Mac. It appears to be respecting TF_AUTO_SAVE_CREDENTIALS.


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Michael Fulino

19 Sep 2014 9:05 AM

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Brian Harry MS

19 Sep 2014 12:37 PM

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David Weaver

16 Jul 2015 11:05 AM

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Brian Harry MS

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14 Aug 2015 11:46 AM

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Brian ‐ Does Team Explorer Everywhere have branch visualization and changeset tracking in eclipse with GIT and

TFVC source control?

@Michael, Not yet. We're going to be amping up investment in Eclipse soon so I hope we'll get to it before long.

Brian

We are using VS 2012 and just installled TFS 2013. I'm not sure which version of Team Explorer I should use: 2012

or 2013?

@David, You have to use TE 2013 for "administrative" function, like process template customization. For normal

use, either one works fine.

Brian

When I undock the Builds view, the right‐click Clone option disappears from the context menu

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