How to clone a TFVC repository of VisualStudio.com using Visual Studio Code?

Question

I installed Visual Studio Code and the extension of "Visual Studio Team Services". I pressed F1 and "team: login" and got the following error message.

(team) You must open a repository folder in order to use the Team Services extension.

How to create a repository folder using VSC? There are a lot of information about Git on VisualStudio.com(Visual Studio team services) but not TFVC.

Answer 1

Update from PatrickLu-MSFT's solution:

If you have apple silicon (M1 / M2 chip), Microsoft's solution will likely not work for you. Check out this fork of that repo from JetBrains:

The same set of documentation will work for this release.

Answer 2

Seems you want to use Visual Studio Code to connect a TFVC project by using Team Services extension for Visual Studio Code.

Make sure you are using version 1.116.0 or later, it provides support for the TFVC source control system!

Create your TFVC workspace

With TFVC, the extension uses information about the current workspace to determine how to connect to Team Services (or your Team Foundation Server). Workspaces can be created using the Visual Studio IDE, Eclipse or with the JetBrains IDEs (e.g, Android Studio, IntelliJ).

Note: At this time, you will need to have a local TFVC workspace already available on your local machine.

To learn more about the TFVC support, review this tutorial documentation or watch the overview video.

Besides, you need working on Team Foundation Server 2015 Update 2 (and later).

Answer 3

TFVC repos are not the same as Git repos. Each Team Project can only have a single one. If you have an existing Team Project without a TFVC repo, you can create it via the web interface. If it already has a TFVC repository, you can't create a second one.