Standalone GUI client for TFS 2010 Source Control

Question

I\'m looking for a TFS 2010 GUI client that I can use outside of an IDE. I\'m only looking to use the source control features in this case. I\'m not talking about work items

Answer 1

If you use eclipse I've heard good things about the teamprise stuff but haven't tried it myself. They got bought by microsoft and now you can download the eclipse plugin here It also looks like it has a fully functional command line client that you could use instead of TFS Power Tools.

From the description: "Eclipse plug-in and cross-platform command-line client for Visual Studio 2010 Team Foundation Server"

Answer 2

The iso for team explorer is here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=329

Answer 3

.\English\VSTFS2010\TeamExplorer it is here on the TFS install.

Answer 4

If you have a SVN client, such as TortoiseSVN on your machine, you can use SVNBridge.

SvnBridge acts as a bridge between a subversion client and TFS. You point SvnBridge at the TFS server, and point the subversion client at SvnBridge. This allows the developer to use a subversion client with any TFS server without needing to change the TFS server in any way. See http://svnbridge.codeplex.com/ for more info.

Answer 5

If you MUST use TFS 2010, you may get away with Visual Studio Code, plus an TFS Extension. However, these extensions require TF.exe; you will still need VS installed but at least the program you would open (VS Code) has a much lesser memory footprint.

Answer 6

You can install Team Explorer (on the TFS install DVD, or you can download it from MSDN) without needing to have VS2010 installed - Team Explorer will install a 'shell' VS2010 with only the TFS features available - none of the IDE components.

Update: the VS11 beta version is now available.