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Asked: 2026-05-11T20:49:46+00:00

There are tons of great examples of creating work items using the TFS API,

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There are tons of great examples of creating work items using the TFS API, which is all packaged as part of the VS 2008 SDK. So, imagine I’ve created a simple web service that takes a few bits of information, then creates a work item.

Everything works wonderfully locally, but what if I want to deploy that web service somewhere else? Locally, I just reference:

1) Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client
2) Microsoft.TeamFoundation.WorkItemTracking.Client

Has anyone had any luck figuring out how to deploy a library or service using these libraries on a machine that doesn’t have Visual Studio or the VS SDK installed on it? Is there some sort of TFS SDK redistributable available? Probably some licensing reason for this?

BTW, if I just copy those dlls out to the web server, I get the following error:

System.InvalidProgramException: Common Language Runtime detected an invalid program.

Ick.

Thanks in advance!

EDIT: something of note, this person had the exact same problem, no resolution…

EDIT: sigh. googled/hacked for three hours, then posted this, then five minutes later found what I think is the answer. Must install Team Explorer? Verifiable?

FINAL EDIT: Yep, that’s it. Install Team Explorer and away it goes…

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  1. Editorial Team

    Yeah, I don’t think there is a TFS redistributable. You can download and install the explorer client, but you still need to have a license (CAL) associated with that installation.

    EDIT: THIS IS NO LONGER CORRECT (2014). As the answer from @LordHits suggests, Microsoft now provides a redistributable for this, clearly labled ‘Free’.

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