TL;DR; Learn how to connect Visual Studio 2010 to Team Foundation Server 2008, view legacy project collections, and access projects without installing Team Explorer separately.

Connecting Visual Studio 2010 to Team Foundation Server 2008 is a snitch… If you have done it from VS200x to TFS200x then you will have no problems understanding what is going on…
Unlike previous versions of Team Suit there is not need to install Team Explorer separately as it comes preinstalled.
As you can see, when connecting to a TFS 2008 server you can see a single Team Projects collection called “Legacy server”, and a list of your projects. For more information about Project Collections try Brian Harry’s blog . Once Connected you have all the usual suspects, but just a little prettier…
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