Install TFS Web Based Version + Check in some code!

TFS (Team Foundation Server) vs TFS (Team Foundation Service).  Micro$oft, WTH?  Naming conventions aside, you now have options for project management:  Server (you get the pleasure of hosting) or Service (to the cloud!)

I could come up with clever reasons to use TFS for home, or let Google (yeah the irony) come up with reasons: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/msgulfcommunity/archive/2011/01/25/10-reasons-to-deploy-team-foundation-server.aspx.  Or regale you of tales of 9+ hours trying to configure the desktop version of TFS for local usage: aka: Tidwell not approved!

TFS as Team Foundation Service:

Go to http://www.visualstudio.com/products/visual-studio-online-user-plans-vs to create a MS account if you don't have one already. 

to do so click on Create Account Now:

At this step you'll need to name your account.  For personal use i'm going with dtidwelltfs which will work out to dtidwelltfs.visualstudio.com

then you'll get to the main page to manage your projects within Team Foundation Service:

Time to create a new project!  I'll use the generic ChessBlog (a project Peter had used in the past for a different blog):

after clicking Create Project:

Huzzah!  Click Open with Visual Studio to connect to get to your source code for binding.  You'll get the typical Launch App popup:

I happen to have 2 versions of Visual Studio 2013 installed: VS2k13 for Desktop and VS2k13 for Web.  This project is web based, I'll open for Web.

  

Double Huzzah!

Microsoft requires you to be logged into your VS account, get ready for yet another popup:

And another huzzah for good measure.  Within VS2k13 for Web you should hopefully have a Team Explorer tab available to you like the following:

I've filled in my local path to my source code and click Map & Get.  You should see the following after doing so:

Yeah buddy!  Mapping complete, time to send your code to the cloud.  Hopefully Source Control Explorer is open, if not open it.  You should be able to add items in your folder via right clicking and selecting Add items to folder, then selecting/deselecting any coding items you want part of your TFS project.

After getting your code into the project, right click and choose Check In Pending Changes.  After selecting that you should see:

Success!  At this point you might be wondering: It's showing up in the explorer window but is it really there?  Go back to your TFS webpage and you should see something like the following:

Click on your project (BlogChess) and you should see:

That should cover the basics of installing TFServices.  Tune in next time when we configure TFServices for bulids/tests!