MSSCCI provider for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and TFS 2015

Question

I have Team Foundation Server 2015 installed, and I'm trying to connect Visual Studio 2008 (Version 9.0.30729.4462 QFE) to the team project. I have installed VS 2008 Team Explorer (version 9.0.21022.8).

According to MS, this should be possible using MSSCCI Provider. However, I can't find the version that's compatible with TFS 2015.

Question: Where is the MSSCCI Provider for TFS 2015, or is there another way to connect VS 2008 to TFS 2015 ?

I have tried MSSCCI Provider for TFS 2013, and it failed because it didn't detect TFS 2013 (which makes sense since I have 2015 installed).

Answer 1

In my case, I had no VS 2008 IDE was installed until yesterday. Due to some conversion limitations in my company, I had to install the old Visual Studio 2008 to my office PC (Windows 10 Pro x64) and connect it to TFS 2015.

I hope this helps someone else like me:

1. First I've installed Visual Studio 2008.
2. And then VS 2008 SP1.
3. Lastly Visual Studio TeamExplorer 2008. (At least this should be the happy ending but I was wrong.)
4. Tried to install VS90SP1-KB974558-x86, but it failed. The package seeks for VS 2008 SP1. I think TeamExplorer 2008 overrides sth important for KB974558.
5. Installed Visual Studio 2008 SP1 again.
6. VS90SP1-KB974558-x86 installed successfully.
7. On the page "Connect to Team Foundation Server", add your TFS 2015 server by ignoring the port and protocol section, and write down your own like;

http://TFS_SERVER:PORT_NUMBER/tfs/TFS_COLLECTION_NAME

It fails everytime if I skip the collection name part.