The cloud is great, but remember to use it where it is merited, don't use it where it's not. Hosting your own server might be good for the experience of it, you know. Just a thought; I'll be doing some stuff on CodePlex hopefully soon, and I'll use CodePlex for the repository and then TFS Express as the build server from my place. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Grant Molloy Sent: Friday, April 05, 2013 7:33 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Cloud TFS
Greg, In VS goto tools - options - source control. Set this to tfs. Close dialog. In menu -> View - Team Explorer.. this is what you will need to connect to your TFS instance in cloud. In menu -> View - other windows (I think) - Source Code Explorer.. this will give you a view of your repository of the connected tfs. HTH.. Grant On Apr 5, 2013 6:36 PM, "Greg Keogh" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Folks, while stuffing around today I noticed that VS2012 has an option to create a TFS account, so I made https://mybusiness.visualstudio.com<http://visualstudio.com> account, then I created a new Team Project for my current hobby project. My only questions are now ... what have I done and what can I do with it? For comparison, a few months ago I created a Bitbucket account and I've been using the TortoiseHG Workbench client app to move stuff in and out. It's working quite well and I like having my projects in the cloud, just like my backups and email (ignoring security issues for now!). So I suppose I've created an account that is in direct competition with Bitbucket, is that right? If I have, what's the advantage? I get the impression that Visual Studio's version control can work directly with my new account, is that right? It would be nice to have the version control integrated into the VS IDE if that's what I can get. Then I worry that I have the wrong version of Visual Studio or there are dependencies on other TFS stuff I have to install. Anyway, I'd really appreciate it if someone is using "projects in the cloud" and can give me a potted summary of what advantage I can gain quickly and what I might need to install. Cheers, Greg K
