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After googling and searching all over the web for a way to properly delete a project off Project Server 2007 or 2010, I found a Microsoft Support document that finally shed some light on my dilemma. I guess Microsoft doesn’t really want you deleting project files off the server. You sort of have to do the opposite of your actions.

Allow me to explain. So you have a project saved under Project Server 2010 and now you want to delete it for whatever reason you can come up with. You look everywhere for a delete button, but there is none. Not even on the project portal site, which you can actually delete off Sharepoint (while still keeping the Office Project file on Project Server).

So you raise your white flag and start asking Google. And what does Microsoft tell you to do?

• Open Microsoft Project 2010
• Click “Open”
• In the Look in list, select “Enterprise Projects”.
• Double-click “Retrieve the list of all projects from Project Server”.
• Right-click the project that you want to delete, and then click Delete on the shortcut menu.

You hear that? Microsoft wants us to perform an “Open” action in order to “Delete” a file!

So next time you can’t figure out how to perform a certain action with an Office product, try to think not just outside the box, but without any common sense whatsoever.

Thanks Microsoft.

Source: Delete a project – Project – Microsoft Office.

Expression Web is a great website development environment that could entirely replace Adobe Dreamweaver if you have the courage to make the jump. One great feature in Expression Web is the ability to work off Team Foundation 2010. But Microsoft’s doesn’t really show you how to enable source control in Expression Web 4 in order to hook your website to TFS 2010. They do tell you that you need to install Team Explorer 2008 or 2010 and that will enable source control in Expression Web. But that didn’t work for me and many others on the internet trying to do the same thing.

So after days of searching the web for a solution, I went to Twitter for help. Apparently Microsoft Expression has an official twitter account for the entire Expression community at @MSExpression. After explaining my dilemma to one of the account representatives they managed to lead me to a Google Blogger blog post that had the answer.

Thanks to the post’s author on teamfoundationserverhelp.blogpost.com.

Attaching Microsoft Expression Web 4 to a Team Foundation Server 2010 project is very simple but NOT intuitive.

(Assumes you have created a web in Visual Studio 2010)

1. Open Expression Web 4.

2. Site (top tool bar) > Manage Sites List… > Add > point to the root directory of the website in the filesystem.

3. Save

4. Site (top tool bar) > Open Site (select the site you just added).

If you have already added the site through VS 2010 to TFS and its under source control the Site will open with version control after step 4 and you can checkin, checkout, etc.

Good luck

Beau Claar

Virtual Premise, Inc.