Team Explorer

I have been doing a bit of reasearch on Team Explorer. In the early beta vesions of VS.Net 2005, they iincluded Team Explorer in the VS 2005 install. When it became apparent that Team Foundation Server (TFS) was not going to be ready for release by the VS 2005 release date, they removed Team Explorer from the VS 2005 install.

This is why you cannot connect to Team Foundation Server when you first install VS 2005. You must first install Team Explorer from the "tfc" folder on the Team Foundation Server install DVD. The folder is called "tfc" because Team Explorer was initally called Team Foundation Client.

You can install Team Explorer without VS 2005, in which case the installer will install a Team Explorer client UI. If you have already installed VS 2005, Team Explorer will integrate itself into Visual Studio 2005, and you will not get a separate Team Explorer client UI.

Team Explorer allows you to create, read, update, and delete items in the TFS source control and the TFS Work Items store, along with other TFS Project items.