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Reputation: 1428

Is there similar external GUI Front End for TFS ? (Something like Tortoise for SVN)

Some time ago I have found seemingly a wonderful option:

TortoiseSVN --->>> use --->>> SVN bridge --->>> reach --->>> TFS.

https://svnbridge.codeplex.com/

But I am afraid, this rather not native solution, could possibly lead to hazard states, or incompatibilities. Especially between various versions of TFS and TortoiseSVN.

What does the community think of SVN bridge ? Or is there any converged external F-E GUI client developed directly for TFS ? (Outside of VSO Team Explorer itself, or other integrated plugins for IntelliJ, Eclipse ...)

I really want an external tool, independent of any IDE.

Here is a list of pretty outdated offered solutions.

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/mrod/2008/04/28/external-team-foundation-server-tools/

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2026

Answers (1)

jessehouwing
jessehouwing

Reputation: 114927

The VS-TFS Power tools offer a Windows Explorer integration for VSTS/TFS. It requires Team Explorer 2015 to be installed (or at least the TFS Client Object Model) and since the last version was never updated for VS2017, you need the 2015 Client object model present.

There is also the TFS/VSTS plugin for Eclipse called Team Explorer Everywhere and Native support for TFVC in most JetBrains tools.

On top of that Team Explorer Everywhere ships with a cross-platform command line version of "tf", the standard version of "tf" is of course already an option to consider.

I'm not sure why you consider Team Explorer to be "dependent on any IDE" the Visual Studio Shell it ships with can just be fully ignored, just open the Source Control Explorer and the Team Explorer tab and you have a TFVC UI.

Upvotes: 3

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