Where can I find Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl.Client.dll in Visual Studio 2015 installation?

Question

I followed instructions in article about supporting multiple versions of Visual Studio in developing checkin policies. Now, where can I find :

Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl.Client.dll

For Team Foundation Server 2015 (version 14) under my VS2015 installation? (Or in NuGet?)

There is nothing like that in

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14\Common7\IDE\PrivateAssemblies\

Hultin

Thanks for bringing this to my attention, I updated the blog post. – Biffin

Answer 1

These have been moved into a Nuget package.

They're also stored under the "CommonExtensions" folder of your Visual Studio installation, but these are not meant to be referenced anymore, that's what the NuGet package is for.

 C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\TeamFoundation\Team Explorer

Biffin

I would obviously prefer to use the package, but build fails after replacing the old library with this package as there is no namespace or type under the name Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl. Also, https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.teamfoundation.versioncontrol.client%28v=vs.120%29.aspx does not provide documentation for the namespace for the current version of VS. Hm. It seems like support for this stuff was discontinued? – Parkins

Updated the link to reference the ExtendedClient package which has the dll's you're looking for.I'm not playing a jedi mind trick on ya ;)! – Biffin

Microsoft, thank you for adding 49 new references after installing that package.... HATE YOU! – Fillister

@jessehouwing: Thanks, we have upgraded to the NuGet package as we hoped it is a better dependency management mechanism than referencing directly from the Team Explorer folder. However, I am somewhat floored by the huge number of references I have now got in my project. – Prairial

Hahaha the 72 or so that get added? – Biffin

In Visual Studio 2017 it can be found at this location: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Professional\Common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\TeamFoundation\Team Explorer – Zacharyzacherie

I am not familar with NuGet. Does it basically mean I should download these assemblies through NuGet and it will be up to me where to store them? – Zacharyzacherie

You add the NuGet package reference to you Visual Studio project and it will allow you to build against them You can set the references to copy-local to copy them to your output directory. – Biffin

I am using .Net 4.6.1 and VS 2017. Under my references. I have downloaded the NuGet package in your link, version 16.143.2. I see Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client & Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl.Client in my project References. And I’ve added “using” directives for the same. However, I still get build messages saying, “Can’t find reference…” for both as well as “...TeamFoundation does not exist in namespace ‘Microsoft’”. Any thoughts? – Felishafelita

Answer 2

We can find in:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Enterprise\Common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\TeamFoundation\Team Explorer

Anselmi