Creating an account in Visual Studio
To get started with VSTS, head to your web browser and follow these steps:
- Open Microsoft's website at this URL: https://www.visualstudio.com/team-services/.
- On the website, you'll see a
Get started for free
button, as shown in the next screenshot. Click on that button:

- Clicking on the button will take you to the signup page, where you can log in using your existing Microsoft account:

- If you don't already have a Microsoft account, then you can click on the
Create account
link on the same page. - Clicking on the
Create account
link will take you to the next page, where you can choose a username and password for your account and clickNext
:

- It might ask you to verify that you are an actual person creating an account, so after completing that step, your account should be ready to use.
- After completing the signup form, the next step is to set up the URL to host your Team Services project at https://www.visualstudio.com/.
- Here, you give the URL for the project hosting...