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Team System Outlook 2007 Addin - v1.0

After a lot of questions and promises, I finally found some time to complete Outlook2007 version of TFS Addin.



Some new features in this version:

  • Attachments now transmitted from email to created work item
  • Search field accept free text to be found in Work Item title
  • Configuration stored now in local user file instead of registry which allow to use addin with low credentials

This is a first (definitely non commercial) release. Please let us know about any issues you can encounter. Any suggestions are more then welcome (as always).

Download available from here

Posted: Mar 04 2007, 06:33 PM by Leon Langleyben | with 33 comment(s) |
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Comments

stefan_sp said:

Works like a charm. Thanks!!
# March 5, 2007 12:24 PM

Team System News said:

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# March 7, 2007 3:17 PM

Sammy said:

Per-fect! Thanks!
# March 7, 2007 4:00 PM

Greg said:

It would be very cool if this were able to work with CodePlex... I tried, but it can't authenticate... Still this is a very cool app... Nice work.
# March 9, 2007 12:22 AM

Archi said:

The SRL Team has released an Addin for MS Outlook that connects to TFS. You can generate a Work Item...

# March 13, 2007 10:32 AM

J Gill said:

Installed and added work item easily. Great job. Any thoughts on syncing all workitems to outlook task list?
# March 20, 2007 2:18 AM

Leon Langleyben said:

Yes J, synchronizing WI with tasks is one of nice ideas we have for the next release. But... It is not a commercial product, so I honestly have no idea when I'll have enough time to make it happen. Still, thanks for feedback.

# March 20, 2007 4:27 PM

tunde said:

hope it works
# March 29, 2007 10:56 AM

Mike's Blog said:

Last night I had a dream about the future of TFS. Wouldn't it be nice if we had one single portal on

# March 30, 2007 8:50 AM

JJ Blog said:

Tak jsem si tak po delší době pročítal seznam různých doplňků a komponent do Team Foundation Serveru.

# June 27, 2007 11:12 PM

rehle said:

It would be nice if you could set a default for the 'Assigned To' field. It currently defaults to current user.

# September 1, 2007 12:59 AM

Guy kolbis said:

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

# October 24, 2007 9:39 AM

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# June 20, 2008 8:23 PM

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# August 3, 2008 3:39 PM

knom's developer corner said:

If you're using Team Foundation Server, these utilities might be useful for your everyday's work: *)

# October 14, 2008 9:42 AM

Andrew Swerlick said:

Works great on XP for me, but my co-workers are running into trouble on vista. We're seeing issues of 2 varieties

1. The user can't authenticate. It does not accept the username and password given

2. Even if they users authenticates, connects to the server, and adds projects, the connection isn't "real." Any attempts to search for a work item brings up the "Work item not found" error popup, and attempts to create work items bring up long error messages.

Inspite these, this is a great app. Loving it myself.

# February 11, 2009 11:37 PM

Subramanyam Anupindi said:

Do you have something that works with Outlook 2003. Can you let me know ASAP. I want to integrate with Outlook 2003 to search for text in Bug work item using outlook as it is not still available in TFS. I also want to send complete Bug work item through email and send any attached files as  attachments. My email is Subramanyam.Anupindi@gnb.ca

Thanks

# February 13, 2009 5:06 PM

Ed Blake said:

It would be very useful if when you create a new Work Item from the mail you can choose to include the Email as an attachment for the work item.

Good work.

Ed

# February 17, 2009 7:39 PM

Shnake said:

Fantastic little add-in!!

# February 25, 2009 5:16 AM

Tim said:

This add-in is awesome, I use it every day!

One thing I find myself doing it adding the sender and sent timestamp to the WI created with this tool. That was I don't lose track of what email a work item originated from.

A useful feature would be for the Outlook 2007 TFS AddIn to enter the email metadata into the work item, perhaps in a format as if I was "forwarding" the email to a workitem.  For example, the email header would be the first part of the body of the work item:

--------------------------

From: Joe User [foo@company.com]

Sent: April 1, 2009

To: Jane Coder

Subject: Fix this bug

Email body....etc.

--------------------------

Thanks for writing the tool!

# April 20, 2009 8:06 PM

rick said:

Problem I've using this tools is the trust !!

# April 28, 2009 1:15 PM

jayne burdeshaw said:

Hi, I keep getting an error when I open a work item with links (and the links don''t show)

'object not set to instance of an object’

anybody know how to get rid of it?

# May 28, 2009 12:33 PM

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# August 10, 2009 4:51 PM

james said:

how do you configure this add in in Outlook 2007?

I installed and don't see anything

# August 20, 2009 9:02 PM

Jan Valter said:

This fantastic addin works fine, but we have problems entering decimal numbers. The addin accepts only points as seperator, but while saving there's an error, because with german regional settings there must be a comma, instead of a point.

If we could have the source code, I'm sure, we can fix this problem.

# September 7, 2009 2:47 PM

Krish said:

Hi,

How do I uninstall/remove the add in. Is there a uninstall utility for the same.

Thanks,

Krish.

# September 24, 2009 5:50 PM

SzaboZsee said:

Can I use this addin with Outlook2010? I use the Tech Preview, but the install is stopped because the Outlook version check is failed.

# October 16, 2009 12:16 AM

Steve’s blog said:

This is a great little productivity tool for teams actively using Work Items to track dev activities

# October 19, 2009 4:36 PM

SzaboZsee said:

How I use this addon with Outlook 2010? The installer stops on version check. Can I install it manually?

# October 20, 2009 11:16 PM

John Byszewski said:

A great addin.  Is there any way to be able to access the source code to add additional features that could be related to our system requirement

jbyszewski@ocsd.org

# October 23, 2009 8:24 PM

Andreas said:

I really like this tool. Is there any way to create WorkItems from tasks as well? Should not be that hard, since all the prerequisites are already there.

# November 5, 2009 6:07 PM

Barry said:

Does this work with TFS 2010??  If so how do you connect to a specific collection??

# December 8, 2009 5:29 PM

Smelser.NET said:

Create TFS Work Items Using Outlook 2007

# April 13, 2010 8:22 PM
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