Installation and setup

Time to roll up our sleeves and dig into Microsoft Team Foundation Server.…Microsoft Team Foundation Server is a centralized revision control system. This means that there…is a server with an actual database that holds your repository and all of your projects.…There are two versions. There is the full on TFS, which requires an installation of full…SQL Server and has to be run on a Windows Server Installation, and that's great for…enterprises and large groups.…There's also a free for open-source hosted version at codeplex.com.…

And just recently, Microsoft introduced the Team Foundation Server Express Edition 2012,…another one of those great names which is free for up to five users.…It's something you can download and install, and it requires installation of SQL Server…Express, but that's something that you get with Visual Studio 2010 and Visual Studio 2012.…There is also a number of commercial companies which host TFS installations, including discount…ASP which has a 30 days free for five users and then fairly reasonable fees for hosting a TFS installation.…