Visual Studio Team Services / Azure

Question

I use Visual Studio 2013 on my local machine to connect to my Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) account for the source code repository. Having that said, is there a feature in the VSTS and/or Azure which if used, will eliminate the need of having Visual Studio on our local machine. Azure says that build, test and deploy. So, I am wondering if build includes construct as well.

Answer 1

Your MSDN account comes with $150 of clouds time. You can spin up a VM with Visual Studio pre-installed from a template in only a few minutes. This would allow you to remote to a VM with VS rather than having to install it locally.