No servers listed in TFS BuildNotification.exe

Question

When I start BuildNotification, I get this balloon:

If I click on the balloon, I get the Build Status screen with nothing listed. If I click on the "options" menu, it is blank as well:

This was working when I left the office on Friday; but now I have this issue (and I'm the only one on the team who has this issue).

I checked the following registry key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\TeamFoundation\Build\BuildNotification

but saw nothing of value. (e.g. uri = "tfs.myserver.com")

I would think it would check this registry key because it has the server listed:

**HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\TeamFoundation\Instances**

How does BuildNotification.exe get the server list?

Is there a way to force a refresh of this?

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NOTE: Team Explorer in Visual Studio works fine (e.g. has my TFS server info)

Answer 1

Also - If you have more than one version of VS installed, note that each version of TFS buildNotification is hooked up to the corresponding VS tfs repository address. I had changed address of VS2013 tfs connection (the old tfs address was shut down), but not on VS2012, thus when starting the VS 2012 buildNotification tool from system tray it could not connect to the new address of the tfs repository.

locations of buildnotification Tool for VS 2012 and 2013:

• C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\IDE\BuildNotification.exe
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE\BuildNotificationApp.exe