Microsoft Visual Studio Team Explorer is a critical tool for developers and project managers who need to connect to or an on-premises Azure DevOps Server (formerly Team Foundation Server or TFS). It serves as a bridge, allowing teams to coordinate code efforts, manage work items, and track project progress directly from within the Visual Studio environment.

Team Explorer is a specialized window or standalone client used to access DevOps features. It provides a centralized hub for:

Microsoft Visual Studio Team Explorer: Complete Download and Setup Guide

Manage code using Git or Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) .

For most users, Team Explorer is already included as a built-in feature of the or Visual Studio 2026 installation. Navigate in Visual Studio Team Explorer - Azure DevOps

Create and update bugs, user stories, and tasks.

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If you need help using Tor you can contact WikiLeaks for assistance in setting it up using our simple webchat available at: https://wikileaks.org/talk

If you can use Tor, but need to contact WikiLeaks for other reasons use our secured webchat available at http://wlchatc3pjwpli5r.onion

We recommend contacting us over Tor if you can.

Tor

Tor is an encrypted anonymising network that makes it harder to intercept internet communications, or see where communications are coming from or going to.

In order to use the WikiLeaks public submission system as detailed above you can download the Tor Browser Bundle, which is a Firefox-like browser available for Windows, Mac OS X and GNU/Linux and pre-configured to connect using the anonymising system Tor.

Tails

If you are at high risk and you have the capacity to do so, you can also access the submission system through a secure operating system called Tails. Tails is an operating system launched from a USB stick or a DVD that aim to leaves no traces when the computer is shut down after use and automatically routes your internet traffic through Tor. Tails will require you to have either a USB stick or a DVD at least 4GB big and a laptop or desktop computer.

Tips

Our submission system works hard to preserve your anonymity, but we recommend you also take some of your own precautions. Please review these basic guidelines.

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