How to browse and view files stored in a Team Foundation Server without using Visual Studio

The TFS Power Tools now have Windows Shell Extensions, so you manipulate source control files using only Windows explorer. Your solution could be to just keep a working copy of the solution and then you do whatever manipulations you need to using Windows Explorer.

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I use emacs and the TFS module for it.
A couple keystrokes retrieves a file from the server.

The tfs mode is built on tf.exe, the team foundation command-line client powertool.

Of course, you could use tf.exe by itself, or with an alternative editor, like notepad++.