• Author: Pedric Kng
• Updated: 22 April 2019

This tutorial discusses

• Azure DevOps TVFS Repository Pulling
• VSCode IDE integration

• Create a Personal Access Token (PAT) with All Scopes available in Azure DevOps Services [3]
• Ensure you have a TF command line client installed.
• Existing VS project

1. Search for Azure Repos extension[1] in VS Code and select to install the one by Microsoft
2. Open File -> Preferences -> Settings
3. Edit the following in your user settings -> Extension -> Azure Repos extension

• Tfvc: Location -- Specify the path to Team Foundation tool(tf.exe)
  • VS2015 - "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE\tf.exe"
  • VS2017 - "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Enterprise\Common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\TeamFoundation\Team Explorer\tf.exe"
• Tfvc: RestrictWorkspace -- Restrict the TFVC workspace to current open VS Code workspace
  • Select option

4. Open a local folder (repository), From View -> Command Palette -> team signin
5. Provide user name --> Enter --> Provide PAT to connect to TFS.

Azure Repos VSCode extension [1]
Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) Support [2]
Authenticate access with personal access tokens [3]
TVFC [4]