How do I distribute a service that uses the Team Foundation Server API?
tfs, visual-studio-2008
Solution
Yeah, I don't think there is a TFS redistributable. You can download and install the explorer client, but you still need to have a license (CAL) associated with that installation.
EDIT: THIS IS NO LONGER CORRECT (2014). As the answer from @LordHits suggests, Microsoft now provides a redistributable for this, clearly labled 'Free'.
Problem
There are tons of great examples of creating work items using the TFS API, which is all packaged as part of the VS 2008 SDK. So, imagine I've created a simple web service that takes a few bits of information, then creates a work item. Everything works wonderfully locally, but what if I want to deploy that web service somewhere else? Locally, I just reference: 1) Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client 2) Microsoft.TeamFoundation.WorkItemTracking.Client Has anyone had any luck figuring out how to deploy a library or service using these libraries on a machine that doesn't have Visual Studio or the VS SDK installed on it? Is there some sort of TFS SDK redistributable available? Probably some licensing reason for this? BTW, if I just copy those dlls out to the web server, I get the following error: System.InvalidProgramException: Common Language Runtime detected an invalid program. Ick. Thanks in advance! EDIT: something of note, this person had the exact same problem, no resolution... EDIT: sigh. googled/hacked for three hours, then posted this, then five minutes later found what I think is the answer. Must install Team Explorer? Verifiable? FINAL EDIT: Yep, that's it. Install Team Explorer and away it goes...