Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2017 teams explorer

In awaited, TFS 2017 Team Explorer was finally released, and for all users of the TFS system, it was a big good news, especially for less often. NET development team members.

As you all know, with the release of TFS 2013 (and earlier), Microsoft publishes a separate installation package for Team Explorer, which contains only the functionality to connect to the TFS System implementation project, code management, and does not have code development capabilities. is actually a very streamlined version of Visual Studio, and the installer package is only about 100MB. Thanks to its simplicity, Team Explorer is installed and runs very fast, so it is widely loved by TFS users.

However, when TFS 2015 was released, no team Explorer was seen, nor did Microsoft plan to develop the standalone installation package. If you need to implement code management with TFS, you can only download a visual Studio Community (around 5GB) or use Team Explorer 2013. This is unbearable, so piles of complaints rushed to the TFS Product development Group, haha ...

Finally, Microsoft is not able to carry out, in the release of Visual Studio 2017.1, the synchronization of the release of TFS 2017 Team Explorer installation package, you can pass this address https://www.visualstudio.com/ thank-you-downloading-visual-studio/?sku=teamexplorer&rel=15 Download "TFS Team resource Manager ", The installation process is the same as in Visual Studio (you can refer to my blog to create a Visual Studio (VS 2017) offline installation package), you can install online, or you can download offline packages.

Is the result of the installation completed:

(Http://www.cnblogs.com/danzhang/ALM MVP Zhang Hongjun)

Problem

Many of my clients work in environments that do not have an Internet connection and need to install packages offline.

Refer to the blog making Visual Studio (VS 2017) offline installation package, after downloading the offline package using the-layout option, copy to the customer environment, I found that the installation package does not run properly, the system prompts to download the file, depressed. is not already the offline package, why still have the network download?

Quickly contact the product group, waiting for the reply .....

Resources:

1. https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudioalm/2017/04/05/reintroducing-the-team-explorer-standalone-installer/

Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2017 teams explorer