Downloading Team Explorer 2005/2008
While at Microsoft today, I was talking with a fellow developer who was complaining that they couldn't download Team Explorer 2005 from MSDN, even as a VSTS subscriber. They wanted v2005 because, although they had Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2008, they were still using Visual Studio 2005.
As it turns out, this isn't this isn't quite true. If you download Team Foundation Server 2005 (either Trial or Workgroup editions), there is a TFC directory on the ISO file for the Team Explorer install. However, there is a better solution and it doesn't even require logging on to MSDN. It turns out that to connect to codeplex you also have the option of using Team Explorer. Since developers won't necessarily have MSDN subscriptions, codeplex links to downloads of img/iso files for Team Explorer:
Team Explorer 2008 (387 MB iso file) Team Explorer 2005 (246 MB .img file) By the way, in VSTS 2008, Microsoft includes Team Explorer on the VSTS media. It is located in the Team Foundation Client directory, TFS\.
UPDATED 2008-09-30
Brian Keller emailed me today to let me know that Microsoft has added a details page for Visual Studio Team System 2005 Team Explorer, making the download easier to find.
Tuesday, September 16, 2008 8:25:04 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00) 
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