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Native Visual Studio 2015 TFS support
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I want to build a VS2015 project on a build server that has Visual Studio 2013 and 2015 installed. As per Microsoft the Team Foundation client libraries are now delivered as NuGet packages and are not located in the GAC. Please update accordingly as we shouldn't have to install a 2012 library just to get source code:
http://stackoverflow.com/a/30158212/203499
Product: BuildMaster
Version: 4.8.5
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Hi Damian, I completely that you shouldn't have to install a client to use TFS.
Unfortunately, only the most recently (v2015) libraries are licensed for redistribution, and these libraries require .NET 4.5, whereas BuildMaster v4 only requires .NET 4.0. These libraries also don't seem to connect to earlier versions of TFS unless VS2015 was actually installed; it's a bit frustrating for us, and other ISVs as you can imagine.
We have requested a redistribution license of the earlier libraries, and we can continue to explore getting it to work on our end, but it's not at all trivial.
The currently solution is to GAC the assemblies yourself or to install the TeamExplorer 2013 client, which does GAC these assemblies.