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Created March 11, 2022 15:57
TFS on macOS

How To Get TFS Working on macOS, in Just Twenty Steps or Less!

I have decided to write this article/how-to guide in a sad and desperate attempt to spare others from (some of) the pain I endured over the last year and a half. Let's start at the beginning of this journey. At the time of joining a team working on an old consumer facing AngularJS application (that's another article for another day), I was a daily Sublime user and came from a Linux/macOS background using cross platform source control tools (either Mercurial or Git). Day one, I had been blessed with a wonderful MacBook Pro. Day Two, I found out the project was using TFS for source control and I would need to run Microsoft Visual Studio inside of Windows 10 to check any code in or out. After just a few hours of running my Parallels VM and trying to create some monster mash workflow between the tools I know and love in macOS for my daily front-end needs, I was fed up. Not only was I constantly paradigm switching on any number of things between th