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Asked: 2026-05-20T02:24:15+00:00

Hi Is there a way to connect to TFS using Silverlight? I would like

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Hi
Is there a way to connect to TFS using Silverlight?
I would like to create a dashboard with some information from my TFS (Workitems, build information etc).
The recommended way to connect to the TFS is via Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client.dll (and the only supported way I guess).
But I can’t use that dll in silverlight so my thought is to go the unsupported route by using the webservices directly.
Is that a bad idea?
I don’t want to create a service in the middle I wan’t to use the TFS directly. I have found very litte information about the TFS webservices.
What is the url for the webservices?
Cheers
/Jimmy

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  1. Editorial Team

    Working directly with the TFS Webservice is not impossible (for example, the Team Explorer Everywhere was developed like this), but it’s a major effort. Because, as you have noticed already, there isn’t much information around. The TEE guys had some support from Microsoft itself and where eventually bought up by Microsoft, so if your project isn’t on about the same scale, I doubt that you will get much help.

    The default address for the webservice if http://<mytfsserver>:8080/tfs

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