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MonoDevelop Use with Team Foundation Server (TFS, SVN?)

We use MonoDevelop / MonoTouch to create our enterprise iPhone / iPad apps.

The new client wants us to use their TFS as a source code repository. Is there a bridge that can allow us to connect to TFS? Perhaps through SVN, if we need to?

EDIT: The new version of Xamarin now fully supports Visual Studio 2012. http://Xamarin.com

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Xamarin now supports full Visual Studio as a plug-in.

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MonoDevelop has a newer addition that seems to fill this gap. Link: http://www.teamaddins.com/

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A few options for you:

Team Explorer Everywhere has a command line interface, so it will not integrate with MonoDevelop. SvnBridge can work as MonoDevelop, which is built into SVN support, but I have no personal experience doing it this way.

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In the previous project I was working on, we needed exactly the same thing that we did - just run Windows in a virtual machine (using Parallels) and save the source code of the MonoTouch solution on Windows, and then use Parallels to exchange information with OSX where we will develop using MonoDevelop. On Windows, we just used Visual Studio to transfer the code to TFS.

This is not the best solution, but it worked well. A good side effect is that you can always open several classes in VS + Resharper and clear the code faster, and it automatically appears in MonoDevelop.

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The worst solution I came up with for Xamarin + TFS is to configure TFS using the Windows machine as usual, mount the TFS workspace as an SMB file on Mac (Finder / Go / Connect to Server), and manage the checks manually in Visual Studio when making changes.

This is klugey, but there seems to be no reliable TFS tools for Mac. And even with the release of Monotouch for Visual Studio, there are still things you need to do through Xamarin Studio.

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Our company uses TFS and Xamarin Studio, and after version 4.1 TeamAddins stopped working, I created a new add-on that is open source, and you can try: https://github.com/Indomitable/monodevelop-tfs-addin

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