Sign up for free

Choose your product:

Connect Visual Studio to TFS

Connect Visual Studio to your team project in TFS so that you can use TFS to share your code, build your apps, and improve collaboration with your customers and your team members.

 

Create a team project

Once you've created your Team Foundation Service account, you'll want to create a team project. A team project is where you store all your source code, as well as tasks and builds. It's also a good way to get a team together to do some great work!

  1. Go to your home page - https://[your account].visualstudio.com - to create a team project.

    Create a project in TFS

  2. Name your project and choose a process template.

    Choose a process template. Visual Studio Scrum 2.0, MSF for Agile, and MSF for CMMI Process Improvement are supported

    The process template defines how you manage your work: as a Scrum project, a general Agile project, or a more formal CMMI style project. Choose the template that's best for your team.

  3. Click Create Project, wait a few moments, and you're ready to go!

    When you click Create Project, everything comes together automatically

    Done. You have your very own Team Foundation Service in the cloud. Now, let's connect it to Visual Studio.

 

Connect Visual Studio to your team project

  1. If you haven't already, install Visual Studio 2012.

    You can use Visual Studio 2010, but you'll need to install Service Pack 1 and KB2662296 first.

    Or, you can use Visual Studio 2008 SP1, with this GDR update.

  2. Open Visual Studio from your team project page - https://fabrikamfiber.visualstudio.com/DefaultCollection/FabrikamFiber, for example.

    Open Visual Studio from Team Foundation Service

  3. Your TFS account shows up in Visual Studio in Team Explorer.

    Sign In

Now you're connected. You're ready to check in source, queue builds, and manage work.

Try this next

Sign up for free