SSDT Installation for VS2017 Team Explorer Fails

Question

I am attempting to install SSDT v15.6.0 into an existing Visual Studio Team Explorer 2017 instance. When I run the SSDT installer, I can select Visual Studio Team Explorer 2017

Answer 1

With the release of SSDT 15.7.1, Team Explorer no longer shows up as an existing Visual Studio install instance option within SSDT. At first I was concerned that the SSDT install would install a Visual Studio shell with no TFS connectivity, however this was not the case. It appears that the SSDT install of the Visual Studio shell picks up on the fact that Visual Studio Team Explorer 2017 is already installed on the machine and the SSDT Visual Studio shell instance has full TFS Connectivity!