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c#.nettfsvisual-studio-2013
Gaurav Kispotta
Gaurav Kispotta

Reputation: 87

Why Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client and Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Framework.Client name space are used in program to connect to TFS server

In a TFS C# program to connect to TFS server we use two namespace as listed below for the same class Client.

using Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client;

using Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Framework.Client;

My question here is Why are the same class Client used from two different namespace?

For the program listed below ( from Here )

using System;
using System.Collections.ObjectModel;
using Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client; 
using Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Framework.Common;
using Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Framework.Client;

namespace TfsApplication
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(String[] args)
        {
            // Connect to Team Foundation Server
            //     Server is the name of the server that is running the application tier for Team Foundation.
            //     Port is the port that Team Foundation uses. The default port is 8080.
            //     VDir is the virtual path to the Team Foundation application. The default path is tfs.
            Uri tfsUri = (args.Length < 1) ? 
                new Uri("http://Server:Port/VDir") : new Uri(args[0]);

            TfsConfigurationServer configurationServer =
                TfsConfigurationServerFactory.GetConfigurationServer(tfsUri);

            // Get the catalog of team project collections
            ReadOnlyCollection<CatalogNode> collectionNodes = configurationServer.CatalogNode.QueryChildren(
                new[] { CatalogResourceTypes.ProjectCollection },
                false, CatalogQueryOptions.None);

            // List the team project collections
            foreach (CatalogNode collectionNode in collectionNodes)
            {
                // Use the InstanceId property to get the team project collection
                Guid collectionId = new Guid(collectionNode.Resource.Properties["InstanceId"]);
                TfsTeamProjectCollection teamProjectCollection = configurationServer.GetTeamProjectCollection(collectionId);

                // Print the name of the team project collection
                Console.WriteLine("Collection: " + teamProjectCollection.Name);

                // Get a catalog of team projects for the collection
                ReadOnlyCollection<CatalogNode> projectNodes = collectionNode.QueryChildren(
                    new[] { CatalogResourceTypes.TeamProject },
                    false, CatalogQueryOptions.None);

                // List the team projects in the collection
                foreach (CatalogNode projectNode in projectNodes)
                {
                    Console.WriteLine(" Team Project: " + projectNode.Resource.DisplayName);
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

Upvotes: 0

Views: 640

Answers (1)

Rahul Singh
Rahul Singh

Reputation: 21825

Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Framework.Client namespace is used for CatalogNode class.

Also, TfsConfigurationServer,TfsTeamProjectCollection,TfsConfigurationServerFactory etc are present in Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client namespace.

Upvotes: 1

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