Install Team Explorer Everywhere 2010 For Eclipse

Typically shops using Eclipse will probably be using SVN or some other source control system, but there are cases where you shop may be a mix of coding languages.  Team Foundation Server is a good offering for source control and much more, such as bug tracking, project management, etc.  If you are in such a shop, Teamprise, which is now owned by Microsoft, wrote a plugin for Eclipse that will connect to Team Foundation Server.  I will describe how to install this plugin for Eclipse in the below steps.  I’m basing my example off the Ganymede installation of Eclipse.

1.  Download TFSEclipsePlugin-UpdateSiteArchive-10.0.0.zip.  Unpack zip file into C:\Tools. You should have C:\Tools\TFSEclipsePlugin-UpdateSiteArchive-10.0.0.

2.  In Eclipse, open the menu Help ^ Software Updates… On other flavors of Eclipse this maybe Help ^ Install New Software.

3.  In the Available Software tab, click the button “Add Site…”. In the “Add Site” dialog, click the “Local…” button, which will bring up a folder dialog. See the screen below. Select the folder C:\Tools\TFSEclipsePlugin-UpdateSiteArchive-10.0.0 which is what was unpacked earlier. Click Ok in folder dialog, then click Ok in “Add Site” dialog.

4.   Now you should see the plugin available in your “Available Software”. Check the Visual Studio Team Explorer Everywhere 2010 checkbox and click the “Install…” button. It will chug through some requirements calculations for a second or two.

5.  After it’s done checking dependencies, an Install dialog will appear as shown below. Click Next button, accept the license agreement, and then click Finish button. After it’s done it will suggest that you restart eclipse, so do that now.

 

In upcoming blogs I will be talking about the usage of this plugin with respect to TFS.