TFS MSSCCI Provider Updated

A lot of people were asking about this when I was in Dublin. Brian Harry has announced the version 1.0 of the TFS MSSCCI provider allowing you to access the power of Team Foundation Server from the following platforms (among others):-

Visual Studio .NET 2003 Visual Visual Basic 6 SP6 Visual C++ 6 SP6 SQL Server Management Studio

Don’t forget, that you can will need at least Team Explorer installed on your machine and you need to make sure your developers have a Team Foundation Server CAL, but for most folks this will allow them to adopt Team Foundation Server right away, and then can use more and more of the power of Visual Studio Team System as they do more projects in VS 2005. You’ll still need Team Explorer and the Command Line Client (tf.exe) to do more powerful administrative tasks. With this MSSCCI provider and with Teamprise you are now in a much better position for day-to-day development integrated in your IDE with Team Foundation Server than you are with most source control systems (even VSS).

The provider is not officially supported by Microsoft, however they will actively be working on it over the next few months. See Rob’s or Brian’s posts for more information.