Exploring Team Explorer
• After you have created a project, it appears in the Team Explorer.
- The Process Guidance documents also appear in the main window.
• Keep in mind that these process guidance docs are just another part of the project’s portal – meaning
you can close and reopen them at any time.
- Note the link to Project Portal on the left side.
• In the Team Explorer window, you have a newly created Team project.
- It’s made up of four separate folders and a link to Source Control.
- At the very top, you have “My Favorites”, which can store you favorite reports, work items,
documents, etc.
- This works much like Favorites in Internet Explorer.
- While working with Team Explorer, be sure to refresh its view periodically to ensure you have the
latest status of the project.
• The four Team project folders are permanent and are aptly name based on the unique components
which they contain.
- As you have probably suspected, any of these components can be added to your Favorites list.
• Here is another way to open the Team project’s portal site.
- When you open the portal site in this way, it will appear in a separate Web browser window, rather
than embedded within the code windows of Visual Studio.
• “Project Alerts…” (see the previous illustration) allow you to create email notifications for one or more
members based on certain Team project events.
• The right-click context menu items that you see in Team Explorer are also available from the Team
dropdown menu in Visual Studio.
- Using the main Team dropdown in Visual Studio is less intuitive than right-clicking items within Team
Explorer.
• Make sure you have the correct item (Team project, VS Solution/Project, document folder, etc.) selected
in Team Explorer before utilizing the Team dropdown menu.
- For example, click on an item in Team Explorer to select it and see how the menu choices dynamically
change in the Team dropdown menu.
• After you have created a project, it appears in the Team Explorer.
- The Process Guidance documents also appear in the main window.
• Keep in mind that these process guidance docs are just another part of the project’s portal – meaning
you can close and reopen them at any time.
- Note the link to Project Portal on the left side.
• In the Team Explorer window, you have a newly created Team project.
- It’s made up of four separate folders and a link to Source Control.
- At the very top, you have “My Favorites”, which can store you favorite reports, work items,
documents, etc.
- This works much like Favorites in Internet Explorer.
- While working with Team Explorer, be sure to refresh its view periodically to ensure you have the
latest status of the project.
• The four Team project folders are permanent and are aptly name based on the unique components
which they contain.
- As you have probably suspected, any of these components can be added to your Favorites list.
• Here is another way to open the Team project’s portal site.
- When you open the portal site in this way, it will appear in a separate Web browser window, rather
than embedded within the code windows of Visual Studio.
• “Project Alerts…” (see the previous illustration) allow you to create email notifications for one or more
members based on certain Team project events.
• The right-click context menu items that you see in Team Explorer are also available from the Team
dropdown menu in Visual Studio.
- Using the main Team dropdown in Visual Studio is less intuitive than right-clicking items within Team
Explorer.
• Make sure you have the correct item (Team project, VS Solution/Project, document folder, etc.) selected
in Team Explorer before utilizing the Team dropdown menu.
- For example, click on an item in Team Explorer to select it and see how the menu choices dynamically
change in the Team dropdown menu.
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