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Flo
Flo

Reputation: 27455

How to browse and view files stored in a Team Foundation Server without using Visual Studio

I'm looking for a tool to browse and view files stored within a Team Foundation Server without using Visual Studio. As I'm doing most development on a virtual machine, it's very annoying to wake it up only to have a look on a certain file.

So is there a way to browse a TFS without Visual Studio?

Upvotes: 7

Views: 10117

Answers (3)

The Matt
The Matt

Reputation: 6636

The TFS Power Tools now have Windows Shell Extensions, so you manipulate source control files using only Windows explorer. Your solution could be to just keep a working copy of the solution and then you do whatever manipulations you need to using Windows Explorer.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=FBD14EEA-781F-45A1-8C46-9F6BA2F68BF0&displaylang=en

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Upvotes: 10

thijs
thijs

Reputation: 3465

You can use the TFS Web Access (most likely at your tfs server, http, port 8090 (http://server:8090/)

Upvotes: 1

Cheeso
Cheeso

Reputation: 192417

I use emacs and the TFS module for it.
A couple keystrokes retrieves a file from the server.

The tfs mode is built on tf.exe, the team foundation command-line client powertool.

Of course, you could use tf.exe by itself, or with an alternative editor, like notepad++.

Upvotes: 2

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