Saturday, February 14, 2015

Connect Visual Studio with Visual Studio Online

From this post, I'll share step by step procedure that you need to follow to get connected with your online TFS account i.e. Visual Studio account

If you need to know more about Visual Studio Online, below URL will be informative for you.
http://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/what-is-visual-studio-online-vs.aspx

If you have not yet owned or created a Visual Studio online account, check my previous blog post to get an idea.

First let's take a look at the reverse way.

1. Open up Vs 2013 and Navigate to Team --> Connect to Team Foundation Server....




2. Click on Select Team Projects. "Connect to Team Foundation Server" dialog will appear. Then click on Servers and then on Add to add your online visual studio account url.


3. Add your visual studio online url as below and click OK.


4. You will be prompted to enter your Microsoft account credentials. Once authenticated, you will get a list of team projects which you have access.


5. Click on connect to get connected with your team project. Once this is setup |Team Explorer" side panel will pop-out as below.



Now the easiest one step way. Once you log into the Visual Studio Online account and navigate to the team project, you can easily open-up your team project with visual studio  2013 .