Retrieving file from Team Foundation Server

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I'm new to development and am coding a VB.NET program and I cannot figure out how to either:
a) Copy file(s) from TFS to the hard drive
b) Read the contents of file(s) in TFS

The google searches I've attempted have proven unsuccessful.

Thus far I'm using the following .dll's from the VS2008 SDK:

Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client.dll
Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl.Client.dll
Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl.Common.dll

Posted 18-Mar-10 7:20am

Martin Sanfacon

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Solution 1

Here few clarification first, If your project is already connect (added) to Team foundation server or not.

If yes you need to follow these steps

1. Open the View menu and choose the team explorer
2. then connect to server, by clicking the "connect to server".
3. then choose the project
4. Open the files in the project and right click on any file, it will give you different option to choose this file.

i) Get Latest version
ii) get the Specific version options

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Posted 18-Mar-10 8:19am

ugandhar77

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sevensilly · Accepted Answer · 2010-03-18T08:23:00

Createa a VersionControlServer instance..

Then call the GetItem method to obtain the instance of the file you want to download, then call its Download method.

E.g.

C#

TeamFoundationServer tfsServer = new TeamFoundationServer(tfsUri, credentials);
VersionControlServer vcServer = (VersionControlServer)tfsServer.GetService(typeof(VersionControlServer));
if (vcServer == null)
    throw new ApplicationException("Invalid vcServer");

Item i = vcServer.GetItem(@"$/Path/To/MyFile.File");
i.DownloadFile(@"C:\MyFile.File");

I just noticed you're doing this in VB.Net, should be easy to convert from C#.