Installed VS2010? Have Office 2003? Is your TFS <–> Office 2003 integration now borked? “Don’t Panic!”

bharry's WebLog - Office 2003 -> TFS integration breaks when you install VS 2010

“When we were planning the requirements for TFS 2010, we decided to take a dependency on Office 2007 and later.  This enabled us to make some significant improvements to the TFS integration due to extensibility improvements in Office 2007.  However, I've seen a few customers who are stuck on Office 2003 and have been disappointed to see that Excel and Project integration with TFS stops working when they install VS/Team Explorer 2010.

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Team Foundation Server Team Blog - VS 2010 and TFS with Office 2003

“You have installed Visual Studio 2010 and found out that the TFS Office Add-In is no longer working because you only a have Office 2003 and TFS requires Office 2007 or newer. Your company is not rolling to Office 2010 for another six months, what do you do?

Don’t Panic, there is a Work Around!

You can install VS 2008 Team Explorer side by side with VS 2010 and then follow the steps below to enable the 2008 TFS Office Add-Ins for Excel and Project.

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Yep, some of us are stuff in the Office 2003 world, so this information will come in handy…