I work for a shop that has standardized on TFS. We have one project that was developed by a subcontractor in php. You can't even load this thing in Visual Studio.
I managed to create a repo for the project, but I need to find out how to check the project in. Is there some other app (like tortoiseSVN) that I can use to check stuff in and out without Visual Studio? Or is there some way to get VS to load the project and check it in and out without creating a .sln, .csproj, or any other unwanted files?
Actually, it's totally possible to use Visual Studio to do this.
You can use the web interface to create a repo...
You can't edit the php in Visual Studio of course, but you can open the Source Control Explorer to check the project into the repo.
You need to remember to go in Visual Studio to check files out before you edit them, and then check them back in when you're done.
It's clunky, but not as clunky as buying a $200 per year setup we're only going to use a few days out of the year. We're a Microsoft shop after all.