TFS 2015 REST API Authentication

Question

We are trying to invoke the TFS 2015 REST API\'s from a web-page using Javascript and have a challenge in establishing valid authentication with the TFS server.

We

Answer 1

If possible, I would recommend using the .NET client libraries for Visual Studio Team Services (and TFS):

https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/docs/integrate/get-started/client-libraries/dotnet

You can use windows authentication (which is what I needed). After including the following nuget packages in my code:

Microsoft.TeamFoundationServer.Client
Microsoft.VisualStudio.Services.Client
Microsoft.VisualStudio.Services.InteractiveClient

I was able to write this code:

// Create instance of VssConnection using Windows credentials (NTLM)
var connection = new VssConnection(new Uri("http://mytfsserver:8080/tfs/CollectionName"), new VssClientCredentials());

// Create instance of WorkItemTrackingHttpClient using VssConnection
var gitClient = connection.GetClient();
var items = gitClient.GetRepositoriesAsync().Result;

foreach (var item in items)
{
    Console.WriteLine(item.Name);
}

See also: https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/docs/integrate/get-started/client-libraries/samples