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Microsoft announced the release of Visual Studio for Mac one year ago. It illogically supported Git instead of TFVC. Visual Studio supports Git since 2014 so absolute majority of projects are controlled under TFVC. Visual Studio Team Services are also price friendly because GitHub wants developers charge for private repositories.
Do we use a bunch of different tools to handle these task or do we find a way to get TFS to work on a Mac. Considering the name of this article is 'How to use TFS on a Mac' and not 'How to use various other products to replace TFS on a Mac', i'm guessing you can figure which option we chose!
TFVS in Visual Studio for Mac is still in preview but it already can replace Team Explorer Everywhere for Eclipse or TFS extension for Visual Studio Code. It is very convenient to have version control embedded into IDE and don’t need to launch separate app which isn’t indeed very productive.
Prior to get the latest version you must install the extension, connect to VSTS and create a workspace:
- Visual Studio → Extensions… → Gallery → Version Control → Team Foundation Control for TFS and VSTS → Install…
- Version Control → TFS/VSTS → Connect to Team Foundation Version Control → Add → Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) | Team Foundation Server (TFS) → Sign in → OK → Close
- Version Control → TFS/VSTS → Source Control Explorer → Manage Workspaces → Add → Add Working Folder → OK → OK → Close
Support for TFVC was the second most requested improvement for Visual Studio for Mac according to UserVoice. Good to see Microsoft responded quite quickly.