CustomControls distribution

Question

Hello,

 

I need to enable the automatic distribution of CustomControls using the Power Tools capabilities

 

As I have read, once you have installed Power Tools, a new "special" folder called $/<TeamProject>/TeamProjectConfiguration appears. In this folder I have to copy the customcontrol's dll and wicc files.

However, I don’t see this folder.

I have tried creating it manually, but when I try to download the CustomControls it doesn’t works.

 

Am I doing something wrong?

 

Thanks

Answer 1

Hi,

Which kind of custom controls do you want to distribute? For example,  workitem custom controls should be placed under folder "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Team Foundation\Work Item Tracking\Custom Controls\9.0\" for VIsta and Win7.

Best Regards,
Ruiz

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Answer 2

In the document of TFS power tool, there's section about distributing custom WI controls with the power tool. I'm curious, are you using the October release of TFS power tool for TFS 2008?

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Answer 3

Yes, I want to distribute workitem custom controls, and when I press the "download" button, it takes some seconds apparently doing something, but when it finish, the folder "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Team Foundation\Work Item Tracking\Custom Controls\9.0\" does not exists.

Thanks
Best regards

Answer 4

Yes I'm using the October release and I haven't had any problem with it, except now when I noticed that the folder $/<TeamProject>/TeamProjectConfiguration does not appear. The document of TFS power tools does not help me with this.

Thanks
Best regards

Answer 5

Hi ,

This path  needs to be created manually.  And the path for custom WI controls distribution  has nothing with power tools.

Best Regard
Ruiz

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Answer 6

Thanks Ruiz,
I created the path manually, but when a client press the download button, nothing is copied in the local folder "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Team Foundation\Work Item Tracking\Custom Controls\9.0\". Do you know if I also need to manually create the TeamProject.config file and what information should it contain?

Best Regards,
Miguel

Answer 7

It works!!!,

It was working all the time.
I expected the files were installed in this path as my previous custom installer did: 
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\ProgramData\Microsoft\Team Foundation\Work Item Tracking\Custom Controls\

but distributing the controls in this way are installed in:
C:\Documents and Settings\MyUser\LocalConfiguration\ProgramData\Microsoft\Team Foundation\Work Item Tracking\Custom Controls\

As I didn't see the files I thouth it was not working. Thanks