Using visual studio online now

Using visual studio online now

Unfortunately, my time is currently too limited to continue work on my own projects often. But sometimes if I got the time I am not able to connect to my codebase. Sometimes I just wanna note something that comes to my mind or read again what I already wrote to think about it again. Recently, I heard from a colleague that you can use Visual Studio Online for free as Team Foundation Server if the team is smaller than 5 people. I thought I should give it a try and see if the system might resolve some of my problems.

Due to my experience with SVN I had no problems using the TFS source control system. The projects are easy to create and maintain through the visual studio online webinterface. New tickets ( Tasks | Work Items ) can be created and prioritized.

The main benefit of course is the seamless integration with Visual Studio ( I use 2015 ). Notes and Tasks ( Workitems ) are all received within visual studio and checkins can resolve them. Of course you have all features of a common source control system given.

I will elaborate more features such as automated builds in future. Visual Studio Online is free of charge up to a team size of 5 persons. The source code is stored hidden on European servers and thus worthwhile also for commercial projects.