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Visual Studio 2015 Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Jeff Martin
Book Image

Visual Studio 2015 Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Jeff Martin

Overview of this book

Visual Studio 2015 is the premier tool for developers targeting the Microsoft platform. Learning how to effectively use this technology can enhance your productivity while simplifying your most common tasks, allowing you more time to focus on your project. Visual Studio 2015 is packed with improvements that increase productivity, and this book walks you through each one in succession to help you smooth your workflow and get more accomplished. From customization and the interface to code snippets and debugging, the Visual Studio upgrade expands your options — and this book is your fast-track guide to getting on board quickly. Visual Studio 2015 Cookbook will introduce you to all the new areas of Visual Studio and how they can quickly be put to use to improve your everyday development tasks. With this book, you will learn not only what VS2015 offers, but what it takes to put it to work for your projects.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Visual Studio 2015 Cookbook Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating a new TFS project


As this book focuses on VS2015 and not TFS administration, we are going to use VSTS to host a new development project that we can then connect to via any version of VS2015. Using VSTS will let us focus on project setup while Microsoft can handle the server administration and configuration. The concepts for creating a new project are similar whether you are using VSTS or standalone TFS. Since, in many cases, corporate users merely access a previously configured TFS environment, this example will let all readers follow along to focus on the bits that are pertinent to Visual Studio.

Getting ready

You will need a Microsoft account ID, and you can either create a new ID for this chapter, or use one of your existing IDs. You will also need a copy of VS2015 available. We will be using Visual Studio Community, but the concepts are applicable across all versions.

How to do it…

Perform the following steps:

  1. Connect to VSO (http://www.visualstudio.com/), and create a VSO account...