Free Limited Team Foundation Server - TFS with Visual Studio 2010

Intro

I'm not sure if people are aware but Microsoft for a while now been trying to compete with sites such as "BitBucket" or "GitHub" when it comes to source control. At my previous work place we used TFS with our internal infrastructure which could be expensive. What Microsoft is offering is "cloud based" TFS. I have decided today to give it a shot.

Team Foundation Server - TFS

http://tfs.visualstudio.com/

Limitations that I have found - you can only share your project with up to 5 users for free. Apart from that I haven't found anything that would bug me yet.

Account creation

Very easy. Follow link above and use your existing live account or create new one.

Visual Studio 2010 setup

Visual Studio 2010 is currently unable to connect to TFS out of the box.
You need to install SP1 and a patch for TFS2012.

If you get an error of "Team Foundation services are not available from server https://xxx.visualstudio.com/tfs. Technical information (for administrator): HTTP code 203: Non-Authoriative Information." - Install a patch.

1. Install Visual Studio 2010
2. Install Visual Studio SP1
3. Patch for VS2010 to let it connect to TFS http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29082
1. Details:

2. Version:	Date Published:
   1	3/8/2012
   File name:	File size:
   VS10SP1-KB2662296.exe	19.3 M

4. Start Visual Studio 2010
5. In the toolbar

1. Click Team -> Connect to Team Foundation Server ...
2. Click "Add"
6. In the Add window
1. Name: your tfs link (without https://)
2. Path: tfs
3. Protocol: HTTPS
7. Click OK and wait for Login screen to appear.