“Map to Local Folder” option missing in VS2008

Question

A colleague has installed VS2008 Team Explorer (as part of his role in Scrum) and can successfully use Work Items, Documents and Reports. I now want him to use the TFS Source Control for non-code files (documents etc). He can successfully open Source Control Explorer but everything is greyed out as nothing has been mapped locally. Unfortunately, the "Map to Local Folder" option is missing from the context menus.

Is there another component he needs to install in order to use the Source Control part of TFS?

Answer 1

If he installs SP1 of Visual Studio 2008 he'll find it much easier to use. SP1 includes things like drag-drop into Source Control Explorer to add files, easier local folder mapping and links to open the local folder in windows explorer from the source control explorer.

You might also want him to install the TFS 2008 Power Tools - especially the Windows Shell Extensions (not selected by default in the installer) as they make it easier to deal with files outside of Visual Studio. This is very handy for word docs etc.