To connect Visual Studio to VSTS, follow these steps:
- Create a folder for your projects, and underneath a subfolder with your initials, or others that make the folder unique, within your team; in my example, I chose C:ProjectsTFS.
- Start Visual Studio.
- You will be presented with the licensing page. Use the page to log in to the account used to create the project within VSTS. Which could be either your Microsoft account, or Work (O365) account.
- On the top toolbar, select Team and then Manage connections.
- The Team Explorer will open, under default layout, on the right-hand side. On this pane, select Manage Connections | Connect to Team Project:
- This will open the Connect to Team Foundation Server dialog, in the Select a Team ...