Team Foundation Sever 2012 express and Visual Studio 2015/2019 Professional

Question

We have been using TFS 2012 Express Edition with VS2010 Team Explorer. Now all our developers have got MSDN Professional Subscription.

We are thinking about upgrading our web project to .net framework 4.5 / 4.6.1 and have following questions in mind;

1. Does Professional Subscription come with TFS licence?
2. Can we connect to TFS 2012 Express using Team Explorer in VS2015/2019 Professional ?
3. We have just recently started using TFS 2012, can we upgrade 2012 express edition to 2015 express or licenced version or its better to install it from scratch?

Answer 1

Hi MUAR,

1. Does Professional Subscription come with TFS license?

About the subscription problems, please see the Subscription page to get help.

2. Can we connect to TFS 2012 Express using Team Explorer in VS2015/2019 Professional ?

Please view the Platform Compatibility. If you want to connect TFS with your Visual Studio 2019 Professional, you could refer to this link to connect to the project in TFS.

3. We have just recently started using TFS 2012, can we upgrade 2012 express edition to 2015 express or licensed version or its better to install it from scratch?

If your issue occurs on TFS, we suggest you start a new thread in the TFS on Developer Community for a support. Thanks for your understanding.

Best regards,

Anna

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Answer 2

Does MSDN Professional Subscription come with TFS 2018 licence ?

Answer 3

Hi MUAR,

After checking the Visual Studio 2017 Licensing, it seems that Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2018 can be obtained in Visual Studio Professional with MSDN Subscription.

Hope it helps.

Sincerely,

Anna

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