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Team System Outlook Addin - v1.0

Let’s face it, not everybody spends every minutes of their time working in Visual Studio 2005. Think about business analysts, designers, project managers and general managers J - not the typical Visual studio user but heavy outlook users. Unlike TeamLook, our plug-in is not a commercial product, but we've been using it successfully on several sites for quite some time, and decided to share it now.

Using this tool you can:

  • Create work item directly from email messages
  • Submit and edit work items
  • Execute stored queries
  • Find work items by ids
  • Export stored queries results
  • Send work items data and queries results by mail

Download available from here. We are working now on Outlook 2K7 version. Hopefully we’ll share it in a few days.

Enjoy

 

Posted: Feb 05 2007, 11:25 AM by Nir Kovalio | with 27 comment(s) |
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Comments

Lorenzo Barbieri @ UGIblogs! said:

# February 5, 2007 1:00 PM

Tzvir said:

Nice ,

A great tool for management integration with the TFS

Keep up the good work

-Tzvi

# February 6, 2007 12:51 AM

Buck Hodges said:

That sounds really useful! I look forward to the update to work with Outlook 2007 so that I can use it. Buck
# February 9, 2007 12:57 AM

Jeff B. said:

A very nice tool indeed! I also look forward to the 2007 version so I can use it on other projects but I find it very useful when I'm using 2003. Thanks, Jeff
# February 9, 2007 11:17 PM

Jeff B. said:

Quick question... does this require Team Explorer to be installed on the client PC or does it install all necessary assemblies to run on its own?
# February 9, 2007 11:26 PM

Leon Langleyben said:

Hi Guys,

Hold on for another couple of days, we will upload 2007 version very soon.

Jeff, you do not need TE installed to use our Addin. It is coming with all necessary assemblies. Obviously you need CAL to use it from TFS licensing point of view.

Please let us know about any setup or runtime issues. Any other feedbacks or suggestions are very welcome as well.

# February 9, 2007 11:56 PM

Tiago Pascoal said:

Outlook 2003 TFS Addin

# February 10, 2007 10:10 PM

Tiago Pascoal said:

Sorry to report this here, but can't seem to find a contact address If you write a new message and then in the new message window press "New Task" or "New Empty Task" most of the input boxes have written something along the line "make sure your function is called in a multithread STA" The "new task" shows an exception if you press it, withoug being in the context of a message (eg personal folders) This is the exception System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0xA7220009): The Explorer has been closed and cannot be used for further operations. Review your code and restart Outlook. at Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.ExplorerClass.get_Selection() at TfsOutlookAddin.ThisApplication.GetCurrentMailItem(Boolean isExplorerCall) at TfsOutlookAddin.ThisApplication.NewTfsTask(Boolean isExplorerCall, Boolean isEmpty, TfsProject prj)
# February 12, 2007 8:25 PM

Nir Kovalio said:

Hi Tiago

I can't reproduce the problem, can you give us some more input?

Has someone else encounter the problem ?

# February 13, 2007 12:13 PM

BJHop said:

Is there a time frame for the 2007 addin?

# February 15, 2007 2:59 PM

Jeff B. said:

When I attempt to add a Team Foundation Server in the add-in, I'm receving an error stating that it can't connect to "Team Foundation Server Url: http://myserver:8080". However, if I enter the following URL into IE - "http://myserver:8080/Build/v1.0/buildcontroller.asmx" - it works just fine so the server/port isn't being blocked and is available. Any ideas as to why this would be happening? --- Thanks, Jeff
# February 20, 2007 5:14 PM

Leon Langleyben said:

Hi Jeff,

Any chance that your user has no sufficient permissions to connect to TFS (should be member of "Team Foundation Valid Users" group at least)?

# February 20, 2007 8:00 PM

Jeff B. said:

Leon, Yes, the users are a member of the "Team Foundation Valid User's" group. --- Jeff
# February 20, 2007 11:18 PM

Simon said:

Great Tool, how can I attach the files from the email to the task? regards Simon
# February 21, 2007 6:34 PM

Leon Langleyben said:

Hi Simon,

Attachments transfer to Work Item is supported in 2007 version that will be out soon. I'll do my best to upload it during this weekend. Hopefully we will promote new features into 2003 version a bit later. In the meanwhile, you will have to save attachments to disk and attach to Work Item from there.

Jeff, can you post exact error, and I'll try to reproduce it.

# February 22, 2007 10:53 AM

Brad said:

Way cool! This will make it easier for me to enforce work item creation for all the wacky enhancement requests we get from the Sales folks without forcing them to install Team Explorer on their systems. Are there plans to release source (for those of us who are never satisfied with existing designs)? I find the dropdown & edit widths related to the project names are too narrow. Our server name is long, so only the first couple of letters of the actual project name is visible. There are a few more UI ideosynchrasies with the CommandBar implementation that I can elaborate on if you desire, or wait for the next build and see what's changed. I can see this being *really* popular with TFS admins. Many thanks for sharing it. Brad.
# February 22, 2007 11:35 PM

Michael said:

I installed the plug in - and now what? Can't see any changes in my Outlook (and yes - I did restart Outlook). Anything else I should do?
# March 5, 2007 5:12 PM

Leon Langleyben said:

Hi Michael,

What version of Outlook do you using?

Did you check security issue described here

http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/files/folders/leon/entry7654.aspx ?

Do you have SRL TFS Toolbar in your Outlook toolbars list (Tools>Customize>Toolbars)?

# March 5, 2007 5:54 PM

Michael said:

Hi Leon Thanks for your quick reply. I'm using Outlook 2003. In Tools -> Options -> Other Tab -> Advanced Options Button -> Com Add-ins, I see 'tfsOutlookaddin'. It was unticked, but I ticked it, restarted Outlook. Still no SRL TFS Toolbar (nothing in Tools->Customize->Toolsbars)? Strange thing is, after restart of Outlook, if I go to Tools -> Options -> Other Tab -> Advanced Options Button -> Com Add-ins again, the 'tfsOutlookaddin' is unticked again. Don't understand this.
# March 6, 2007 10:39 AM

Sven said:

I think syncing the TFS work items with the Outlook tasks is mandatory for the next release of TFS - the missing integration of TFS with Exchange is a really bad thing.

The addin is really nice - I'm already using it with ol2k7, so should "We are working now on Outlook 2K7 version" make me nervous? Is there incompatibility with it?

Releasing the source as an open source project would be extremely helpful to add more features.

# April 26, 2007 9:42 AM

Guy kolbis said:

Over a year ago, SRLTeam has released a free addin for Microsoft Outlook, that supports editions 2000

# October 24, 2007 9:40 AM

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# May 19, 2008 3:01 PM

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# June 21, 2008 4:53 AM

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# November 5, 2008 9:19 AM

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# February 16, 2009 7:33 PM

Sanjay said:

Very nice utility, too good. I have a small issue, Due to password policy, once I changed my domain password,  plug-inn is not working and even after clicking option button nothing is happening. How to update the password for this plug-inn???

Thx, Sanjay

# March 30, 2009 11:51 AM

rick said:

Hi guys, any updates on outlook 2007?

# April 28, 2009 12:50 PM
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