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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.
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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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http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/7cb80f0d-0119-4277-82e8-719a8db1796e
This is the link which was shared in a similar post some two years ago. However the link is not available anymore. Do we have an alternative.
If you want to migrate from VSTS to TFS on-premise, please see Migrate VSO to on premises TFS.
You can also have a try for VSTS Sync Migration Tools,it allows you to bulk edit and migrate data between Team Projects on both Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) and Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS).
Then the alternative way would be get and upload the source code manually. And use Execl to export and import the work items.
Also, you can use OpsHub Visual Studio Migration Utility, the Commercial Edition supports migration from either TFS or VSTS to either TFS or VSTS.
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I am about to start using Visual Studio 2012 Pro with Azure Websites. I am not using Source control at present. However the idea of rolling back previous versions is very appealing if new code does not work. I really want to keep this as simple as possible.
The options I see are:
1.) TFS (service)
2.) GIT from Local repository to Azure Repository.
3.) Hosted GIT. SInce I am not using GIT at present, then I think this could become an unnecessary extra step.
I am using MVC3, EF4.1, SQL Server, C#.
From your experiences of both, it would be very interesting to hear of your observations
Thank you in advance.
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Yes it could be opinion based, but I was hoping for some factual feedback from any folks that had perhaps tried both. I have altered my question above accordingly.
You can use Visual Studio Online. It integrates well with Azure Management Portal and offers both TFS and Git.
Visual Studio Online is free for up to 5 users. Whether you want to go with Git or TFS, I suggest you play around with both and then decide which one you like.
It also offers Agile and Scrum development process templates.
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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 $-wise getting an MSDN subscription which covers the team?
MSDN Subscription of some sort, covering 3x developers
Is there some generic online re-seller I can purchase through in Australia, or at least look for a better price from?
After discussion & research it appears the following is the answer - for teams of 5 or less, with projects small enough to fit into the SQL Express edition, we can use the TFS Express edition with Visual Studio 2013 Professional.
Therefore, in our scenario only one purchase is necessary:
3x Visual Studio 2013 Professional
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Currently I'm decide move my projects from SVN to TFS, and first idea was buy TFS hosting. But when I was review many hosting providers I was shocked their prices politic. Hosting TFS price begin with 20$ 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.