What's the easiest way to checkout a file from our TFS with MSBUILD.
From what I can see it's to shell out to TF.EXE and manually call the checkout command. Is there really no built in command?!
Checkout from TFS with MSBuild
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Best Answer
There really is no built in command. Even worse, the tf checkout command only accepts a single filespec.
The recently released MSBuildExtensionPack has some msbuild commands for TFS, but no perf gain there. Under the hood, they shell out to tf.exe