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I need to equip a 3x developer team with VS2013Pro and TFS Server. We don't have anything we can upgrade from so starting from scratch.
My local Microsoft re-seller has repeatedly given me confusing information about what I need to purchase and I think he doesn't actually know. (wasn't even aware the 2013 was available)
Is this sufficient to get my team up and running?
1x TFS Server
3x Visual Studio 2013 Professional
Or do I need to buy this as well?
3x TFS CALs
Alternatively, am I likely to be better off $-wise getting an MSDN subscription which covers the team?
MSDN Subscription of some sort, covering 3x developers
Is there some generic online re-seller I can purchase through in Australia, or at least look for a better price from?
After discussion & research it appears the following is the answer - for teams of 5 or less, with projects small enough to fit into the SQL Express edition, we can use the TFS Express edition with Visual Studio 2013 Professional.
Therefore, in our scenario only one purchase is necessary:
3x Visual Studio 2013 Professional
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I would like to learn TFS. I have a windows 7 64bit computer. Is there an express free version or a trial I can use? My main goal is to learn something about TFS for a scrum project I would like to learn to create.
The simplest way to learn TFS is to create a Visual Studio Team Services account, which is the free (for 5 users) cloud version of TFS. You can use the extension called 'Sample Data Widget' that can generate enough sample data to play with the agile planning tools.
If you want to learn configuration and setup, grab the free trial version, stick it in a VM and practice as much as you want.
Or download the VM which contains a pre-configured instance of TFS with sample data. That makes it easier to get started. There is also a whole list of hands-on labs that you can run through for both TFS and VSTS.
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Currently I'm decide move my projects from SVN to TFS, and first idea was buy TFS hosting. But when I was review many hosting providers I was shocked their prices politic. Hosting TFS price begin with 20$ per user/month! I was found price of TFS 2010 and on Microsoft Store it's price 499$. VDS hosting can get with price about 10$ per month. My calculation show what VDS+Buy TFS 2010 will be less then get TFS hosting (I'm working with 5 developers now).
So my question: Am I right? Or I was missed something and best way get TFS Hosting?
If you fire one of your developers so there are only five of you in total then you could consider the free TFS Express:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=29919
The official list of Team Foundation Server 2010 hosting providers is here.
You're right that the minimum cost is around $15-$20/user/month. The reason for this is that the hosting providers have to use SPLA licensing from Microsoft. In addition to a Windows SAL (subscriber access license), they also need to charge for the TFS SAL. I don't know the exact pricing, but I'm guessing that it comes pretty close to $15-20/user/month.
Another part of this is that TFS 2010 is not quite a full multi-tenant application. Although you can add multiple collections (SQL databases) to a single TFS installation, every collection consumes some shared resources (procedure cache, application tier memory, etc). This increases the infrastructure costs for a hosting provider.
There is good news though. Microsoft are working to offer TFS hosting themselves built on the Windows Azure platform. In doing so, they are optimizing the product to work with large numbers of different tenants/customers. No pricing has been announced as yet, but there is a free preview available at http://tfspreview.com/. You can read more about it on Brian Harry's blog here.
Have you checked out the hosted preview? You can use it now free of charge. In the future we will charge you for this hosted offering. Unfortunately, we don't know yet what the prices will be.
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Does it make sense to use the project management features of Team Foundation Server without using the Source Control and Automatic Build features? We're doing agile in an non-.net environment and would use TFS to manage the project but keep using the currently used source control and build software.
Thanks in advance,
One of TFS' primary strengths is that the work item tracking and source control are so closely linked. Another of its primary strengths is the integration into the Visual Studio IDE. It sounds like you wouldn't be using either of those features, so that starts to drive you away from using TFS as a solution.
Another factor that is an unknown here is how much you would need to pay for TFS licensing. If you already have that covered under existing MSDN licenses, then it probably isn't a factor.
That being said, the agile process template in TFS 2010 is a very nice agile-in-a-box solution, giving you the work items and management reports that you need to work in an agile environment. Additionally, you can modify the process template as needed to meet your particular flavor of agile.
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How can I monitor how much of the graphics card is used when I run a certain application? I want to see how much my application uses the GPU.
If you develop in Visual Studio 2013 and 2015 versions, you can use their GPU Usage tool:
GPU Usage Tool in Visual Studio (video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gjc5bPXGkTE
GPU Usage Visual Studio 2015 https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt126195.aspx
GPU Usage tool in Visual Studio 2013 Update 4 CTP1 (blog) http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2014/09/05/gpu-usage-tool-in-visual-studio-2013-update-4-ctp1.aspx
GPU Usage for DirectX in Visual Studio (blog) http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ianhu/archive/2014/12/16/gpu-usage-for-directx-in-visual-studio.aspx
Screenshot from MSDN:
Moreover, it seems you can diagnose any application with it, not only Visual Studio Projects:
In addition to Visual Studio projects you can also collect GPU usage data on any loose .exe applications that you have sitting around. Just open the executable as a solution in Visual Studio and then start up a diagnostics session and you can target it with GPU usage. This way if you are using some type of engine or alternative development environment you can still collect data on it as long as you end up with an executable.
Source: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ianhu/archive/2014/12/16/gpu-usage-for-directx-in-visual-studio.aspx
From Unix.SE: A simple command-line utility called gpustat now exists: https://github.com/wookayin/gpustat.
It is free software (MIT license) and is packaged in pypi. It is a wrapper of nvidia-smi.
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Can anybody recommend a good free online Team Foundation Server repository?
I found CodePlex but it's only for open source projects.
Upto five team members it is free. Try it :)
http://tfs.visualstudio.com/
Free is TFS hosted on Windows Azure: http://tfspreview.com/
If you need more info about TFSPreview, please read Brian Harry's MSDN blog post: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bharry/archive/2011/09/14/team-foundation-server-on-windows-azure.aspx
To obtain activation code just register there or contact someone from MS ALM team.
Update: TFS Preview goes live&stable as Visual Studio Online here: http://www.visualstudio.com still free for 5 team members and build server computing time. Another nice feature automatic build&deploy (daily or continuous integration) to Azure. More info: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/cloud-services-continuous-delivery-use-vso/
Readify used to run their TFSNow hosted TFS service, but I don't think it's going any longer. The only others I've heard of, apart from CodePlex, aren't free:
Phase2
TeamDevCentral
Saas Made Easy
I know this thread is old, but since a Google search brought me here, it will also do to other people who may find this useful.
Microsoft recenly launched Visual Studio Online, which is free for projects with up to 5 users:
http://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/visual-studio-online-overview-vs.aspx
I have been using it for a while, and it integrates completely with Visual Studio 2013. It claims integration with other IDEs too. Apart from TFS, Git can also be used with it.
I know this thread is old, but since a Google search brought me here
VSO is now Azure DevOps https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vso
Recently Microsoft Visual Studio Online (VSO) is now Azure DevOps
You can use Visual Studio Team Services for free. Also you can import a TFS repo to this cloud space.
tfs.visualstudio.com
This is what you wanted.
One of recent the TFS Rocks pocasts mentioned such an organisation, may have been number 16.