How to get tf exe TFS command line client

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What s the minimum amount of software I need to install to get the  tf exe  program

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I m in a virtual machine  and am trying to keep my VHD as small as possible  so I find Team Explorer is a really heavyweight solution  300  MB install    As an alternative  I ve had some luck copying a minimal set of EXEs DLLs from a Team Explorer installation to a clean machine   NET 4 0 is still required  of course    I ve only tried a handful of operations so far  but this set of files  about 8 5 MB  has been enough to get basic source-control functionality via tf exe    TF exe TF exe config Microsoft TeamFoundation dll Microsoft TeamFoundation Client dll Microsoft TeamFoundation Common dll Microsoft TeamFoundation Common Library dll Microsoft TeamFoundation VersionControl Client dll Microsoft TeamFoundation VersionControl Common dll Microsoft TeamFoundation VersionControl Controls dll    It should go without saying that this is a completely unsupported solution  and it doesn t free you from the normal TFS licensing requirements    Depending on the operations you perform  you may find that additional DLLs are required   Fortunately  tf exe will produce a nice error message telling you exactly which ones are missing

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You need to install Team Explorer  it s best to install the version of Team Explorer that matches the version of TFS you are using e g  if you re using TFS 2010 then install Team Explorer 2010    2012 version http   www microsoft com en-gb download details aspx id 30656  2013 version http   www microsoft com en-us download details aspx id 40776  2019 version https   visualstudio microsoft com thank-you-downloading-visual-studio  sku TeamExplorer amp rel 16  You also might be interested in the TFS power tools  They add some extra command line features  using tfpt exe  and also add some extra IDE features

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You can also try TFS CLI for Node js which is a cross-platform CLI for Microsoft Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio Team Services

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In Visual Studio 2017  amp  2019  it can be found here     -Replace  YEAR  by the appropriate year   2017    2019     -Replace  EDITION  by the appropriate edition name   Enterprise    Professional   or  Community    C  Program Files  x86  Microsoft Visual Studio  YEAR   EDITION  Common7 IDE CommonExtensions Microsoft TeamFoundation Team Explorer tf exe

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The tf exe command line is included in the VSTS agent package in folder externals vstsom

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For reference  these are the required DLLs for Visual Studio 2017  as did  ijprest for the VS 2010   TF exe TF exe config Microsoft TeamFoundation Client dll Microsoft TeamFoundation Common dll Microsoft TeamFoundation Core WebApi dll Microsoft TeamFoundation VersionControl Client dll Microsoft TeamFoundation VersionControl Common dll Microsoft TeamFoundation VersionControl Controls dll Microsoft VisualStudio Services Client Interactive dll Microsoft VisualStudio Services Common dll Microsoft VisualStudio Services WebApi dll   They will be in my base VM image  I m going to use it to pull the latest deployment scripts from VC to a temporary local workspace folder when installing a new server   tf workspace  new      tf workfold  map     tf get   WorkSpaceLocalFolder    recursive tf workfold  unmap  tf workspace  delete   lt run deployment scripts from   WorkSpaceLocalFolder    gt   rmdir   WorkSpaceLocalFolder      Sorry to post this as an answer  but I don t have enough reputation to comment  which I believe it should have been

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Following on from the earlier answers above but based on a VS 2019 install   I needed to run  quot tf git permission quot  commands  and copied the following files from  C  Program Files  x86  Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 TeamExplorer Common7 IDE CommonExtensions Microsoft TeamFoundation Team Explorer Microsoft TeamFoundation Client dll Microsoft TeamFoundation Common dll Microsoft TeamFoundation Core WebApi dll Microsoft TeamFoundation Diff dll Microsoft TeamFoundation Git Client dll Microsoft TeamFoundation Git Contracts dll Microsoft TeamFoundation Git Controls dll Microsoft TeamFoundation Git CoreServices dll Microsoft TeamFoundation Git dll Microsoft TeamFoundation Git Graph dll Microsoft TeamFoundation Git HostingProvider AzureDevOps dll Microsoft TeamFoundation Git HostingProvider GitHub dll Microsoft TeamFoundation Git HostingProvider GitHub imagemanifest Microsoft TeamFoundation Git Provider dll Microsoft TeamFoundation SourceControl WebApi dll Microsoft TeamFoundation VersionControl Client dll Microsoft TeamFoundation VersionControl Common dll Microsoft TeamFoundation VersionControl Common Integration dll Microsoft TeamFoundation VersionControl Controls dll Microsoft VisualStudio Services Client Interactive dll Microsoft VisualStudio Services Common dll Microsoft VisualStudio Services WebApi dll TF exe TF exe config

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Visual Studio 2017 Team Explorer  According to https   blogs msdn microsoft com bharry 2017 04 05 team-explorer-for-tfs-2017  you can now download it separately from Visual Studio via this link   https   www visualstudio com thank-you-downloading-visual-studio  sku TeamExplorer amp rel 15

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There is a Java TFS client in the Team Explorer Everywhere installation  together with an Eclipse plugin   Look at http   www microsoft com en-us download details aspx id 30661

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