VS2008 Professional connecting to TFS 2010 RC on Windows Server 2008

Assuming that you have already installed VS 2008 professional edition (no problem eventhough you have installed the VS 2008 SP1 because anyhow you are going run it again) in your machine and in your machine TFS 2010 RC is installed and configured successfully.

Please follow the following steps as its :

1. You have to install Team Explorer 2008 over your VS2008 Professional SP1.
   
2. You need to reinstall VS2008SP1 to update team explorer.
   
3. After that you have to install Visual Studio Team System 2008 Service Pack 1 Forward Compatibility Update for Team Foundation Server 2010 (Installer) from this link.
   
4. When you connect from VS2008, you need to enter the full URL (ex: :/tfs">https://<MyServer>:<port>/tfs)