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'Visual Studio for Mac brings the integrated development environment (IDE) loved by millions to the Mac,' is the official word from Microsoft on this.

Officials announced availability of the product on Day 1 of the company's Build 2017 developer conference in Seattle.

Visual Studio for Mac is not a port of Visual Studio for Windows; it's a rebranded version of Xamarin Studio integrated development environment (IDE) that will work on the Mac. (Microsoft bought mobile-tool vendor Xamarin in February 2016.)

Microsoft made a preview of Visual Studio for Mac available in November 2016.

Microsoft also is releasing today a preview of its .NET Core 2.0 cross-platform runtime technology. The generally available version of .NET Core 2.0 should be available in Q3 2017, according to Microsoft's own roadmap.

.NET Core 2.0 allows developers to use .NET Standard 2.0's expanded set of uniform APIs -- including XML, Serialization, Networking, IO, and more to write once and run on multiple .NET runtimes (.NET Framework, .NET Core, Xamarin, and Universal Windows Platform), as Microsoft explains it. ASP.NET Core 2.0, for server-side developers, is also in preview as of today.

A related aside: As the Register reported recently, there's concern in the .NET developer community about some of the directions Microsoft is taking with ASP.NET Core. ASP.NET Core 2.0 won't be targeting both .NET Framework and .NET Core, and instead will target .NET Core 2.0 only.

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TFS is a rather broad term and describes a whole suite of solutions. I’m assuming that you mean the version control section for my answer.

There is no support for TFVC, which is the older versioning control system that used to be default in TFS.

Since some time now, TFS and VSTS (basically the cloud hosted version of TFS) have switched to Git. Git is supported from Visual Studio for Mac as well as a lot of other tools of course.

If you still want to use TFVC, I have only found one option which isn't pretty. I installed Eclipse (the IDE for Java) which has a plugin for the TFVC version control. It looks and works pretty similar to how it looks in Visual Studio for Windows. It has some quirks and I would be surprised if it is still actively maintained, so use with caution and if you have the possibility look into switching to Git.

Edit though they seem to be working on it! If you check out the linked blog post you will see that support is in the works and I think there is a preview you can download today.

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For Visual Studio Mac, TFS is supported for now. There has been a uservocie, you can vote up and monitor it.

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However, this is only a preview feature as you can see the comment from PM:

I’m happy to say that our first preview of this feature is now available – check out the announcement blog post.

I’ll continue to share out updates here as we make updates to the preview.

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According to the comment below the blog post, it seems not stable for now. If you want a more stably solution of using TFS source control on Mac, you could try to use Visual Studio Code, which is more of a fast, lightweight code editor.

With the help of Visual Studio Team Services extension on Visual Studio Code, it allows you to connect to Team Services and Team Foundation Server and provides support for both Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) and GIT. More details can be found at Connect VS code with TFS on mac

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