TFS

Hello,

I sent these questions in via contact form earlier, but was told to go to the same place where I already tried to retrieve information on TFS setup to no avail.  Someone from nopCommerce contacted me via email and requested that I post further question on the forums.

Here is my original set of questions:

'Question via email' wrote:

To which the reply was:

'Reply via email' wrote:

However, as mentioned previously, I already tried this as you can see from the first paragraph of my initial questions.

When I log into codeplex and go to http://nopcommerce.codeplex.com/SourceControl/list/changesets there is a box on the right that says "Source Control Setup" and within that a link that says "Connection instructions".  Clicking on this gives the following information:

Project Name: nopCommerce
Subversion URL: https://nopCommerce.svn.codeplex.com/svn
TFS Server URL: https://tfs.codeplex.com/tfs/

There is also a link at the bottom that says "Source control client connection instructions" which links to http://codeplex.codeplex.com/Wikipage?title=Source%20Control%20Clients

This page has a link under "Projects using Team Foundation Server / Subversion": Team Explorer

Team Explorer is already installed in the environment I'm in so I went down to the "Connect to a CodePlex Project using Team Explorer" and then clicked on the link: Connect to TFS with Team Explorer 2010

Step 12 of this says: "In the Connect to ServerName dialog, type in the username that was on the connection instructions from the Source Code tab, and your CodePlex Password, and then click OK."

However, back on the connection instructions on the "Source Code" tab of http://nopcommerce.codeplex.com/SourceControl/list/changesets there is no username information.

After reading through several of the forums and comments on various codeplex pages, I tried some of the logins that were suggested, first just my codeplex login, then adding _cp to the end up my codeplex username, then adding _cp to the end of my username and setting the domain to SDN.  None of these allowed me to connect.

According to the response I received back from Andrei, I should be able to connect to the server to at least retrieve the latest version.  Am I missing something?  My understanding from the https://www.nopcommerce.com/downloads.aspx page is that, according to the paragraph under TFS version for developers, "TFS access is public".

Can someone help me with my issue?  I would really like to be able to integrate any work I need to do on my own utilizing nopCommerce with TFS and even if the access is read only, being able to merge changes from the main trunk down onto my own local branch would be immensely helpful.

Thanks in advance for your time if you have the time to lend assistance.  I hope I have been able to adequately demonstrate the steps I have taken thus far.

Regards

Don't look at previous reply. Follow the next steps:
1. Go to http://nopcommerce.codeplex.com/SourceControl/list/changesets
2. Find the change set you're interested in (for example, 56406)
3. Click on its link (in our case it is http://nopcommerce.codeplex.com/SourceControl/changeset/changes/56406)
4. You'll see a list of modified files and 'Download' button which allows you to download the latest change set

Thank you for the reply, Andrei, but that still does not answer my overall question.  I am aware of the links to download the changeset files and how to unbind them from source control.

When I download the changesets and open one of the projects, it asks me to connect to the TFS server via a login prompt.  When attempting to log in I receive the following error message: "TF30063: You are not authorized to access https://tfs.codeplex.com/tfs05"

This leads me to believe that my login for codeplex is correct and that the server itself is just not publicly accessible without further permissions from someone already on the project.

My main question is:

    Is there any way to connect to the TFS server and if so, what do I need to do to accomplish this?

I have followed the instructions set up in the various areas of the site as mentioned above, but it seems like something is missing.  All I'm really looking for is a way to connect with at least read-only access so that I can quickly and efficiently integrate changes from your trunk or versioned branches down into my own local branch.

Thanks in advance.

Whisper wrote:
No, it's not possible. We do not set up CodePlex TFS permissions. They are predefined by CodePlex staff.

Thank you, Andrei.  That is exactly the information I was looking for.