Use Team Foundation Version Control(TFVC) at Visual Studio Code
2017/7/52 min read
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- Install Visual Studio Team Services Extensions from Visual Studio Code Marketplace.
- Add TF Command line to Visual Studio Code
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VSC - File - Preferences - Settings
Depend on what's Visual Studio you installed on the machine, visual studio code's TFVC location will be different, following is an example for vs2015 and vs2017 for your reference.
// example tf.exe location for visual studio 2015 { "tfvc.location": "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\\Common7\\IDE\\tf.exe", "tfvc.restrictWorkspace": true }
// example tf.exe location for visual studio 2017 { "tfvc.location": "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio\\2017\\Community\\Common7\\IDE\\CommonExtensions\\Microsoft\\TeamFoundation\\Team Explorer\\tf.exe", "tfvc.restrictWorkspace": true }
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Put your own setting depend on what Visual Studio you installed.
- Login to your visual studio online and get Access Tokens from VSTS.
- Click Security and go to Personal access tokens and click add a new token.Also, Make sure you copy the token now. We don't store it and you won't be able to see it again.
- Open Visual Studio code and add token
- Click the Team, put the token and click enter.
- Now, you should be able to connect to visual studio team service from visual studio code, including check-in, get the latest file check bug items.