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I followed instructions in article about supporting multiple versions of Visual Studio in developing checkin policies. Now, where can I find :

Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl.Client.dll

For Team Foundation Server 2015 (version 14) under my VS2015 installation? (Or in NuGet?)

There is nothing like that in 

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14\Common7\IDE\PrivateAssemblies\
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These have been moved into a Nuget package.

They're also stored under the "CommonExtensions" folder of your Visual Studio installation, but these are not meant to be referenced anymore, that's what the NuGet package is for.

 C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\TeamFoundation\Team Explorer
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    I would obviously prefer to use the package, but build fails after replacing the old library with this package as there is no namespace or type under the name ``Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl``. Also, ``https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.teamfoundation.versioncontrol.client%28v=vs.120%29.aspx`` does not provide documentation for the namespace for the current version of VS. Hm. It seems like support for this stuff was discontinued? – Lukáš Lánský Sep 22 '15 at 09:17
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    Updated the link to reference the ExtendedClient package which has the dll's you're looking for.I'm not playing a jedi mind trick on ya ;)! – jessehouwing Sep 22 '15 at 13:23
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    Microsoft, thank you for adding 49 new references after installing that package.... HATE YOU! – yakya Jul 05 '17 at 11:58
  • @jessehouwing: Thanks, we have upgraded to the NuGet package as we hoped it is a better dependency management mechanism than referencing directly from the Team Explorer folder. However, I am somewhat floored by the huge number of references I have now got in my project. – J M Jan 02 '18 at 16:01
  • Hahaha the 72 or so that get added? – jessehouwing Jan 02 '18 at 21:04
  • In Visual Studio 2017 it can be found at this location: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Professional\Common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\TeamFoundation\Team Explorer – Cary Dec 04 '18 at 13:13
  • I am not familar with NuGet. Does it basically mean I should download these assemblies through NuGet and it will be up to me where to store them? – Cary Dec 10 '18 at 12:15
  • You add the NuGet package reference to you Visual Studio project and it will allow you to build against them You can set the references to copy-local to copy them to your output directory. – jessehouwing Dec 10 '18 at 19:14
  • I am using .Net 4.6.1 and VS 2017. Under my references. I have downloaded the NuGet package in your link, version 16.143.2. I see Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client & Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl.Client in my project References. And I’ve added “using” directives for the same. However, I still get build messages saying, “Can’t find reference…” for both as well as “...TeamFoundation does not exist in namespace ‘Microsoft’”. Any thoughts? – BernieP Jul 10 '19 at 14:59
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We can find in: 

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Enterprise\Common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\TeamFoundation\Team Explorer
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