Accessing Visual Studio Online from YOUR Azure Account – Now we can with this new PaaS offering

Posted by johnvpetersen on June 3, 2014

In case you missed Brian Harry’s announcement – we can now either link existing Visual Studio Online (VSO) instances OR we can create brand new VSO instances and control them through the Azure Portal. The problem before was that there had to be a 1:1 correspondence between VSO an a Microsoft Account. If you’re managing your own projects, that is likely not a problem. If however, you are in an enterprise, having a direct dependency on a Microsoft Account doesn’t work.
The good news is that today, we can associate VSO instances to an Azure Subscription.



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Creating a new VSO instance is easy:

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Note: if you want, an Azure Active Directory instance can be associated with your VSO instance.

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And just like that, we have a new TFS instance courtesy of Visual Studio Online!!

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No more having to spend unproductive time installing and configuring TFS from scratch. In a matter of minutes, we can stand up TFS with Visual Studio Online. From here, you can elect whether you want TFVC or git for your source code control. From there, it is very simple to connect your Azure Website to your new repository in order to publish from the source code repository. Like the on-prem version of TFS, you can choose your process template: CMMI, MSF Agile or Scrum. With VSO, you can also create build definitions. For more info on what VSO has to offer, check out this site. For a comparison of features between Visual Studio 2013 (On Prem) and Visual Studio Online – check out this resource.

About johnvpetersen

I've been developing software for 20 years, starting with dBase, Clipper and FoxBase + thereafter, migrating to FoxPro and Visual FoxPro and Visual Basic. Other areas of concentration include Oracle and SQL Server - versions 6-2008. From 1995 to 2001, I was a Microsoft Visual FoxPro MVP. Today, my emphasis is on ASP MVC .NET applications. I am a current Microsoft ASP .NET MVP. Publishing In 1999, I wrote the definitive whitepaper on ADO for VFP Developers. In 2002, I wrote the Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Databases for Que Publishing. I was a co-author of Visual FoxPro Enterprise Development from Prima Publishing with Rod Paddock, Ron Talmadge and Eric Ranft. I was also a co-author of Visual Basic Web Development from Prima Publishing with Rod Paddock and Richard Campbell. Education - B.S Business Administration – Mansfield University - M.B.A. – Information Systems – Saint Joseph’s University - J.D. – Rutgers University School of Law (Camden) In 2004, I graduated from the Rutgers University School of Law with a Juris Doctor Degree. I passed the Pennsylvania and New Jersey Bar exams and was in private practice for several years – concentrating transactional and general business law (contracts, copyrights, trademarks, independent contractor agreements, NDA’s, intellectual property and mergers and acquisitions.).
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