Visual Studio 2010 Professional and Team Foundation Server 2012 Express

Question

I can't create a New Team Project from Team Explorer in VS 2010 Profesional because of the below error message:

TF30172: You are trying to create a team project either without required permissions or with an older version of Team Explorer. Contact your project administrator to check your permissions or to determine how to upgrade Team Explorer.

I'm an administrator in TFS and part of the "Team Foundation Adminstrators" group. What could I possibly be doing wrong?

Also, I've installed SP1 for VS2010 and the KB2662296 Hotfix.

Answer 1

This error message is indicating that Team Explorer 2012 is required to create a Team Project against Team Foundation Server 2012.

You should install Team Explorer 2012 in order to create your Team Project. If you do not have Visual Studio 2012 installed, Team Explorer 2012 will install as a standalone application that you can use to connect to TFS. This will be installed side-by-side with Visual Studio 2010, it will not upgrade your existing installation. As Allen notes in his answer, you can connect to a TFS 2012 instance from Visual Studio 2010. You need a matching Team Explorer version only to create a Team Project.