Visual Studio + TFS -- powerful project management tool, studiotfs --

Visual Studio + TFS -- powerful project management tool, studiotfs --
I. Preface

Microsoft Visual Studio is very powerful. It can be seamlessly integrated with Git or its own TFS (Team Foundation Server) to facilitate project management, from requirement analysis, development, testing, and maintenance, almost throughout the entire lifecycle of software development. This article will detail how to use Visual Studio to manage projects With TFS.

2. What is TFS?

TFS is a project that provides source code management, data collection, reporting, and project tracking for Microsoft products and is developed for collaborative software. It can be used as an independent software or Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) on the backend platform of the server.

Its positioning is similar to Git, but it is more powerful than Git. I will introduce it later. TFS is usually used as a project management tool in an enterprise, that is, to install TFS on a server, and then add relevant personnel to the group, when developing in Visual Studio, you can connect to this server using the team resource manager to use powerful project management functions.

As an individual, can we use Visual Studio in combination with the powerful project management functions of TFS? The answer is yes. Conscientious Microsoft has built a cloud-based TFS and allocated free 5 GB space for every user who uses genuine Visual Studio!

3. Get Space

If you don't talk nonsense, let's get into the question. How can I get this free 5 GB space?

　　

2. After you log on for the first time, the following dialog box will pop up to customize the bucket url and write down this url:

This will allow you to create a project. We will skip this step.

Access your url in a browser and the following interface appears (may be slightly different). You have successfully obtained a 5 GB storage space.

4. Check in the local project to TFS

In the following scenarios, we have created a project on the local machine and want to check the project into TFS for project management, such as branch, merge, check-in, check-out, and version change, what should I do?

To use TFS in enterprise users, you must first install TFS on a server, and then you can create multiple Collection projects in TFS ), each team project set is equivalent to a container for storing various projects of a team. You can create several team projects in a team project set.

The 5 GB storage space we get is actually a Collection of team projects allocated to us by Microsoft on its own cloud TFS server ), the size of the team project set is 5 GB. Note that we cannot directly check a local project to the root directory of the team project set, you must first create a new team project in the team project set, and then check in the local project to the team project. I will demonstrate these operations below.

V. Visual Studio + TFS simple check-in and check-out operations VI. Conclusion

Visual Studio + TFS functions are far more than that. I will introduce them in detail in subsequent articles. If you have any questions, please contact us :-)

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