Visual Studio Online. What is it and what does it eat?
Visual Studio Online, based on Team Foundation Server capabilities, is an online space for your development projects. Quickly set up the required cloud infrastructure without having to install or configure any servers.
What IDEs can I use it with?
- Visual Studio Online connects to Visual Studio, Eclipse, Xcode and other Git clients, allowing you to provide support for cross-platform development.
Each Visual Studio Online account provides for the free work of five users. As your group expands or your needs grow, connect and match user plans and resources to give each user exactly what they need. Visual Studio subscribers with MSDN can join projects in accounts with five free users.
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Post code in the cloud
Place the code in the cloud to have access to it at any time and from any place. Use the traditional centralized version control system Team Foundation Version Control or use Git repositories if you prefer a distributed approach.
Create private source code repositories in the cloud
No matter how many developers you need to support (3-5 people or a few thousand), you can manage the source code in the cloud using advanced branching, merging and visualization technologies.
Select source control with Git or TFVC
Use the source code management model that best suits you: a distributed version control system using Git, or a centralized version control system using TFVC. The choice is yours.
Discuss code changes with colleagues.
Create comments and respond to comments from your employees, created in places where code changes.
Manage work in one place
Manage your project and in the cloud. Quickly plan, monitor, and track all your outstanding work and teams with simple and fully integrated tools for flexible portfolio planning and management.
Capture outstanding work and work with sprints
Create hierarchically ordered backlog at each level of fragmentation to quickly identify, prioritize, and assign jobs. Use tags for quick categorization and filtering.
Track requirements, tasks and errors with work items
Use work items to assign tasks and errors to a group, track status and coordinate work within a group. Associate work items with code changes and link work items together.
Track your progress using the Kanban board and the flexible development task board
Track the overall progress of work on the Kanban board while a group of tasks is running and track the progress of work for sprints using the Scrum-based task board.
Create apps in the cloud
Build build processes that automatically compile and test your applications in the cloud, on demand, or as part of an automated continuous integration strategy, and manage them.
Unload assembly
Use the cloud controller assembly and the monthly allocated amount of free assembly minutes to distribute demanding project build tasks in the cloud.
Automate the build process
Automate the build in the cloud to run at night or after each return to ensure that the build is ready and ready for deployment.
Track build status over time
View actual build results on the project home page and customize notifications.
Study the structure of applications in detail.
Visual Studio Online Application Insights is a new cloud service (a preview version is currently available) that collects a lot of data about operations, performance and usage by clients from client and device applications, as well as server applications, regardless of whether they are running locally, in Microsoft Azure, in a third-party cloud service, or using a combination of these methods.
Use rich control panels and dynamic reports containing application information.
Control panels provide information about how applications work and allow you to create custom views. Dynamic reports contain summary information about various aspects of your application.
Track your application usage.
Learn everything about your application by exploring interactive data, such as the geographical location of users and preferred browsers. This information can then be used to make informed decisions about the application.
Conclusion: Visual Studio Online is a functional and almost free (up to 5 users) alternative to Team Foundation Server. If you are a small team of developers, then this is just for you.
What IDEs can I use it with?
- Visual Studio Online connects to Visual Studio, Eclipse, Xcode and other Git clients, allowing you to provide support for cross-platform development.
Each Visual Studio Online account provides for the free work of five users. As your group expands or your needs grow, connect and match user plans and resources to give each user exactly what they need. Visual Studio subscribers with MSDN can join projects in accounts with five free users.
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Post code in the cloud
Place the code in the cloud to have access to it at any time and from any place. Use the traditional centralized version control system Team Foundation Version Control or use Git repositories if you prefer a distributed approach.
Create private source code repositories in the cloud
No matter how many developers you need to support (3-5 people or a few thousand), you can manage the source code in the cloud using advanced branching, merging and visualization technologies.
Select source control with Git or TFVC
Use the source code management model that best suits you: a distributed version control system using Git, or a centralized version control system using TFVC. The choice is yours.
Discuss code changes with colleagues.
Create comments and respond to comments from your employees, created in places where code changes.
Manage work in one place
Manage your project and in the cloud. Quickly plan, monitor, and track all your outstanding work and teams with simple and fully integrated tools for flexible portfolio planning and management.
Capture outstanding work and work with sprints
Create hierarchically ordered backlog at each level of fragmentation to quickly identify, prioritize, and assign jobs. Use tags for quick categorization and filtering.
Track requirements, tasks and errors with work items
Use work items to assign tasks and errors to a group, track status and coordinate work within a group. Associate work items with code changes and link work items together.
Track your progress using the Kanban board and the flexible development task board
Track the overall progress of work on the Kanban board while a group of tasks is running and track the progress of work for sprints using the Scrum-based task board.
Create apps in the cloud
Build build processes that automatically compile and test your applications in the cloud, on demand, or as part of an automated continuous integration strategy, and manage them.
Unload assembly
Use the cloud controller assembly and the monthly allocated amount of free assembly minutes to distribute demanding project build tasks in the cloud.
Automate the build process
Automate the build in the cloud to run at night or after each return to ensure that the build is ready and ready for deployment.
Track build status over time
View actual build results on the project home page and customize notifications.
Study the structure of applications in detail.
Visual Studio Online Application Insights is a new cloud service (a preview version is currently available) that collects a lot of data about operations, performance and usage by clients from client and device applications, as well as server applications, regardless of whether they are running locally, in Microsoft Azure, in a third-party cloud service, or using a combination of these methods.
Use rich control panels and dynamic reports containing application information.
Control panels provide information about how applications work and allow you to create custom views. Dynamic reports contain summary information about various aspects of your application.
Track your application usage.
Learn everything about your application by exploring interactive data, such as the geographical location of users and preferred browsers. This information can then be used to make informed decisions about the application.
Conclusion: Visual Studio Online is a functional and almost free (up to 5 users) alternative to Team Foundation Server. If you are a small team of developers, then this is just for you.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/256435/
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