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    <p><strong>Update</strong>: yes! Visual Studio Online <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bharry/archive/2014/05/12/a-new-api-for-visual-studio-online.aspx" rel="nofollow">introduced a new REST API</a>, and on-premises installations of TFS 2013 have access to this new API.</p> <p>In versions of TFS prior to TFS 2013:</p> <p>tl;dr: <strong>Not in any way you're going to want to consume.</strong></p> <p>Team Foundation Server does expose SOAP web services that the clients use to talk to it. However, it's not something that is publicly documented, it's not supported by Microsoft (meaning they can, and will, change version to version) and, quite frankly, it's remarkably unlikely that the effort required will be worth the result.</p> <p>Although the web services are well designed, some of the web services require a significant amount of client state. This is particularly true of the work item tracking web services. The clients basically contain an entire "rules engine" for processing and verifying changes to any fields. The client must, basically, be able to understand the process template and process all these state changes before submitting an updated work item back to the server. The server will <em>also</em> run the rules and verify that the client made only legal changes.</p> <p>The rules engine is not exposed publicly. You would have to reverse engineer it.</p> <p>This also makes some underlying assumptions like your web services stack can successfully speak NTLM2 and Kerberos properly (most can't, outside of the .NET web services stack, although some an support NTLM version 1 to some degree, which will only give you the illusion that you should be authenticating.)</p> <p>It's therefore <strong>strongly</strong> suggested that you just use one of Microsoft's APIs for accessing TFS, either the .NET or the Java SDK.</p> <p>(I actually worked for a third-party company that successfully wrote a Java front-end to TFS by talking to the web services. It was a fair challenge for us -- especially the work item implementation -- and this was the full-time job for several of us. I wouldn't recommend it as a side project.)</p>
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    1. COThanks for the informative answer. I regrettably have only the one upvote to give!
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    2. CO@Matt: you bet. Out of curiosity, what platform / language are you targeting? Is one of the existing SDKs going to work out? We do want to make sure you're able to get your project going.
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