How do I Series: Connecting an Expression Blend Project to Team Foundation Server

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Published on Wed, 26 May 2010 21:32:14 GMT Indexed on 2010/05/27 3:41 UTC
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I have heard of people wanting and needing to add projects created in Expression Blend to Team Foundation Server.

Here is the recipe:

1) Create your project in Expression Blend … click OK

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2) Select the option to open your recently created project in Visual Studio.

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Once that option is selected, your solution will open up in Visual Studio, close Expression Blend at this point.

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Now, I want to add this project to Source Control …

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Next, I connect to my TFS environment, and pick the location to save my project

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Once the project is added, I will get a status window of pending changes for my project, all that we are left to do is to check in those changes.

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Since we have checked in our project, we can now close Visual Studio, and we will proceed to open Expression Blend again. And select our project we will!

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We notice some differences from before, just by opening it

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What differences you say?!?

Notice the lock to the right of the item name …

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And we also get this when we right click …

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And there we have it, it is a combination of tools to achieve this, but it is well worth it.

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