Visual Studio Plugin

The TeamCity plugin for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005/2008 provides the following features:

• remote run (TFS, Subversion, since TeamCity 4.5 EAP (build 8804): Perforce)

• pre-tested (delayed) commit (TFS, Subversion, since TeamCity 4.5 EAP (build 8804): Perforce)

• navigation to build results

• viewing failed NUnit/TFS unit test stack traces

• viewing the results of the integration of your changes into the project code base

For detailed instructions on how to use the plugin, refer to the TeamCity Help section, embedded in Microsoft Visual Studio's Help System.

tip

To enable navigation to the failed NUnit/TFS unit tests in Visual Studio by clicking the links in the web UI, make sure that .pdb file generation for the assemblies involved in NUnit/TFS unit tests is switched on.

Installing the Plugin



Download the plugin available in the TeamCity Tools section of the My Settings and Tools page and follow the installation wizard.

warning

• The TeamCity plugin for Microsoft Visual Studio requires Microsoft Visual Studio 2005/2008.

• To use the remote run and Pre-tested (delayed) commit features with TFS, Team Explorer must be installed. Please refer to MSDN documentation for information for details on installing Team Explorer.

• To use the remote run and Pre-tested (delayed) commit features with Subversion, use the Subversion command-line client version 1.4.0 or later.

note

Please, close all running instances of Visual Studio before starting plugin installation (initial or upgrade).