{"id":2581,"date":"2013-01-22T04:51:59","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T04:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/bharry\/2013\/01\/22\/stand-alone-installer-for-tfs-object-model\/"},"modified":"2013-01-22T04:51:59","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T04:51:59","slug":"stand-alone-installer-for-tfs-object-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/stand-alone-installer-for-tfs-object-model\/","title":{"rendered":"Stand-alone installer for TFS object model"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For years we&rsquo;ve had requests for an easier way to install the Team Foundation Server object model.&nbsp; Since 2005, the only way to install it was to install VS or Team Explorer, both of which included a VS shell, Office extensions and a bunch of stuff that you really didn&rsquo;t need to do basic programmability against a TFS server.&nbsp; In TFS 2012, we set out to address the long standing request and create a stand-alone installer that would just install the programmability components &ndash; making for a faster, smaller and less impactful install.\nWe actually released it along with VS Update 1 back in November and I forgot to mention it.&nbsp; You can download the installer here: <a title=\"http:\/\/visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com\/f30e5cc7-036e-449c-a541-d522299445aa\" href=\"http:\/\/visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com\/f30e5cc7-036e-449c-a541-d522299445aa\">http:\/\/visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com\/f30e5cc7-036e-449c-a541-d522299445aa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years we&rsquo;ve had requests for an easier way to install the Team Foundation Server object model.&nbsp; Since 2005, the only way to install it was to install VS or Team Explorer, both of which included a VS shell, Office extensions and a bunch of stuff that you really didn&rsquo;t need to do basic programmability [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":244,"featured_media":14617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-2581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-tfs"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>For years we&rsquo;ve had requests for an easier way to install the Team Foundation Server object model.&nbsp; Since 2005, the only way to install it was to install VS or Team Explorer, both of which included a VS shell, Office extensions and a bunch of stuff that you really didn&rsquo;t need to do basic programmability [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/244"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}