I have an old Perl web site which I need to maintain, and I want to use Visual Studio do to this (mainly to take advantage of the TFS source control integration).
How can I create a project file (similar to .csproj) which will work with the files from my web site, without any of the usual stuff like build and compilation? I just want the source treated as plain text files, for ease of editing and source control.
Just as the world has moved on from Perl (a language I have used OO Perl anyone?) it has also moved on from TFS.
Moving to Git and using an app more suited to folder type projects such as found with Visual Studio Code, instead would be a more future proof way of handling and maintaining old source. It avoids issues of trying to shoe horn a Perl type project into a project type that it was not designed for...
Creating a git repository to house the code and using VS Code is not a major leap from Visual Studio. Its unclear what is being saved by staying with TFS in an editor not designed for Perl projects.
See VSCode as a Perl IDE