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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!
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Team Explorer connects Visual Studio 2019 and earlier to Team Foundation version control (TFVC) repositories, and to projects hosted on Azure DevOps Services or an on-premises Azure DevOps Server (formerly known as Team Foundation Server, or TFS). You can manage source code, work items, and builds.
On September 10, 2018, Microsoft renamed Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) to Azure DevOps Services. With Azure DevOps Server 2019, Microsoft is renaming Visual Studio Team Foundation Server to Azure DevOps Server.
Follow below steps to add the TFS server: Manage Connections -> Connect to a project option in the Team Explorer (use View -> Team Explorer if not available) and connect to the project. Click Add Azure DevOps Server, input tfs server URL and choose Add.
TFS will provide us with 5 user free of charge, which means we can have up to 5 free user at the same time. If you delete one of them and replace him with someone else, that number will still be identified as 5. If you need to get 6 or more, you need to make a purchase.
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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