TFS 2010 API Documentation

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So after countless hours crawling the internet I am unable to find any form of proper API for TFS 2010 for C# (I have not installed any SPs yet) I am unable to find any proper results

I have found the SDK on the Microsoft site but it is for Java for some reason.. Can anyone help me and provide me with some proper documentation, I have found some relating to VS2005 but this all seems to have been removed from the framework as you can no longer import Microsoft.Core

Links to items I have looked at:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=22616
http://tfsapiwrapper.codeplex.com/ (although this is kind of what I need, I don't hugely want to install random wrappers without a huge amount of information regarding it)

Could you provide detail on what you want to do? API in the context of a service is a bit vague. For instance are you looking to customize the server or client, or automate certain activities? — Guvante, Nov 21 '12 at 15:50
I am in the process of writing a console application that will have the ability to grab a projects name based on some data within our CSProj files, search our TFS server for a matching project, then record changesets which have been added since the date of the last release — Hello World, Nov 21 '12 at 15:51

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 21 '12 at 15:51

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If you're looking for a C# API (likely, based on the question tags), there is the Microsoft.TeamFoundation namespace. I have used it before.

You will need to include the following assemblies as references in your project:

Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client
Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Common

And one or more of the following based on your specific needs:

Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl.Client
Microsoft.TeamFoundation.WorkItemTracking.Client
Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Client
Microsoft.TeamFoundation.TestManagement.Client

answered Nov 21 '12 at 15:51

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Please read the OP and note that I can not use this for some reason. – Hello World Nov 21 '12 at 15:53
Why are you unable to use it? These are not the Java APIs you referred to in the OP. – Philip Hanson Nov 21 '12 at 15:56
Thanks, I was missing the Assemblies – Hello World Nov 21 '12 at 15:56
If they are unavailable in the references tab, you may want to check the version/flavor of .NET framework the project is using. I have used these with success in VS2010 to connect to TFS2010. – Philip Hanson Nov 21 '12 at 15:58
I was missing the assemblies *facepalms* – Hello World Nov 21 '12 at 15:59

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A good starting point:

All are in .NET

I did not even know there was a Java API...

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answered Nov 21 '12 at 15:51

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I found it crazy that there was a Java API – Hello World Nov 21 '12 at 15:52
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@HelloWorld: this is our cross-platform API. – Edward Thomson Nov 21 '12 at 16:05

TFS 2010 API Documentation

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