Friday, July 11, 2014

Free Source Version Control Facility from Microsoft for Small Teams

They have introduced Visual Studio Online with the capabilities of Team Foundation Server and additional cloud services, Where we can create our source code repository on the cloud and work in the same way as what we do now.

This online user plan includes everything from the hosted GIT repos, project tracking tools, and continuous integration tools. These user plans are described in
Visual Studio Online User Plans

The Visual Studio online basic is given free for up to five users. In this blog, I’ll elaborate on each and every step of how you can get your projects migrated to online TFS and work as a small team.

 ** You need Visual Studio 2013 Professional or Ultimate installation to use this feature.

Steps :
1. You must create a Live account, and verify the given email and phone number. Go to http://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/what-is-visual-studio-online-vs.aspx​ and logged in using your credentials.

 If all the validations and verification are completed, you must see your own name as below.

3. Then click on Create a free account now to create a Visual Studio online account.


4. Now you should be landed on this page.


5. Now type your project name, chose the version control system TFVC / Git, Process Control Template, and click on Create project. Read more on the SVC system supported by Microsoft Visual Studio : Use version control

6. Now you must see this page.


7. Now click on "Open with Visual Studio to connect". You might be asked for your credentials, please provide them. Then you will be connected to the online TFS account that you have just created.


8. Now you can add your solution to the online TFS.