Publishing/hosting
Publishing/hosting is a service that makes your application publicly available. Applications can be stored on servers provided by your hosting provider. In this section, we will use TFS (now VSTS): refer to https://www.visualstudio.com/tfs/.
Note
You need to migrate your existing project if it is hosted on TFS. Refer to the link for more details: https://www.visualstudio.com/team-services/migrate-tfs-vsts/.
Project hosting
You need to have access to Visual Studio Online/TFS Online (now VSTS) to host a project. For this you need to follow these steps:
- Go to https://www.visualstudio.com/vso/ using your preferred browser.
- Click on
Sign in,
as shown:

VSTS home screen
- Enter your Microsoft account; you can create one if you don’t have one.
- Follow the steps and create your account.
- You will be redirected to your
Visual Studio Team Services Accounts
page:

VSTS my profile page
- Click on
Create new project.
- You will be redirected to a new page where you will be asked for some information related...