Can Visual Studio Community install TFS (Team Foundation Server)?

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YogaPanda picture YogaPanda · Dec 16, 2014 · Viewed 27.9k times · Source

Our team decide to use Visual Studio Community instead of Visual Studio 2013. I wonder can we install TFS in Visual Studio Community and work well? Thanks!

Answer

Wouter de Kort picture Wouter de Kort · Dec 16, 2014

Visual Studio Community edition is feature equal to Visual Studio Professional except that in an organization it can only be used for open source projects, academic research or learning. For other commercial scenarios you're only allowed to use the Community edition up to 5 users.

Team Foundation Server is a separate product. If you have an MSDN subscription (which you won't have if you're using VS Community), you get licenses to install TFS.

However, instead of installing TFS you can also look at Visual Studio Team Services, a hosted version of TFS which is free up to five users.

So, if you're with less than 5 users, you can use Community and Visual Studio Team Services completely free.

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