Annoying experience with TFS Online

Hope this post doesn’t come across as a rant but just wanted to share the experience I had with tfsonline service, hopefully someone in charge of this service will see this and take some action.

If you are not familiar with tfsonline, simplistic way to think about it is that its a hosted TFS offering completely managed by Microsoft. As an MSDN subscriber you get this pretty much free of cost. I use it for all my personal projects.

Now to main reason for this post, I was trying to help out a friend (Fabian) with an issue and he granted me access to his project in TFS Online. After he granted me access I received following email from the service

 

I clicked on “Accept the Invitation” link and it took me to https://tfs.visualstudio.com, I sign to the service using my live id credentials and I get following screen

At this point I’m wondering where on earth is Fabian’s project that he just granted me access to? It would have been very helpful if the above UI showed that, Unfortunately as you can see from screen shot it doesn’t.

If I know Fabian’s TFS service address I could simply connect to his project via Web or from VS using the URL and signing in with my live ID.

Hope Microsoft will fix this soon and include the projects I have access to in the screen above which will allow me to connect to another users project because currently it’s quite confusing and requires a manual step

Cheers,

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Comments

• Anonymous
  November 04, 2013
  that is odd indeed, that also happened to me when @CoreyRoth invited me to one of his projects as well. I had to cut and paste the TFS URI in the browser to be taken to the project.