Tfs Api compatibility question

Question

Hello ,

I created utility for MTM , I used  TFS API for this task.
The problem is I made it in .NET 4.5 , and now people who have, Windows XP can't use it.
I change my project to compile to .NET 4.0 but I still have a problem with TFS API assemblies version 11.0 (TFSApi Client for example). I need to instal TFS Explorer 12 on Windows XP , but it is not supported there.
Maybe you can provide me with some workaround for this issue? Is it necessary to install Tfs Explorer 2012 in order to use this assemblies and launch my program successfully.?

Thanks in advance,

Victor

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Victor Rodniansky

Answer 1

Hi,

You can maybe use the standalone TFS Object Model

http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/f30e5cc7-036e-449c-a541-d522299445aa

I am not sure if this is supported on Windows XP.

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Answer 2

Hi Victor,

You cannot install team explorer 2012 on Windows XP it is not supported.

However, you can bin the dll's of the TFS 2012 object model in your custom solution. By doing this, the customer are sure to have TFS 2012 DLL's on their PC for them to successfully run the program.

I would however, like to know if you are actually need the TFS 2012 object model? If you do not have any specific requirements to use TFS 2012 object model, I would highly recommend installing TFS 2010 object model on the client desktops where the application needs to be run. You do not need to install team explorer 2010, since there is a separate installer for the 2010 object model that you can download from here. http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/a37e19fb-3052-4fc9-bef7-4a4682069a75 

If run into any further questions please write back in the forum.

Hope this helps,

Tarun

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Answer 3

Hello,

Thank you for your answer.

I followed your suggestion ,to bin the dll's of the TFS 2012 object model in a custom solution.I succeeded to load a tfsClient.dll , but another problem occured I've got this exception in WITDataStore.dll (after I chose the desired project)

"Unable to load DLL 'Microsoft.WITDataStore.dll' "  ,

Maybe you can help here too?

Thanks a lot,

Victor

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Victor Rodniansky

Answer 4

I suggest you read about IOC (Inversion of Control). You shouldn't make you application dependent on specific assemblies and you want to load the ddl's at run time based on TFS. You may also want to have a façade layer for each model and have the shared code in a common project.  

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Answer 5

Hi Victor, 

Thanks for your reply.

If you installed VS 2012, you will find this dll under C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\IDE\ReferenceAssemblies\v2.0. As far as I know this dll belong to 2012.

We suggest you using the TFS 2010 object model dlls, and keep the same version.    

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