{"id":9521,"date":"2007-04-05T15:06:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-05T15:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/bharry\/2007\/04\/05\/back-by-popular-demand\/"},"modified":"2018-08-14T00:34:11","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T00:34:11","slug":"back-by-popular-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/back-by-popular-demand\/","title":{"rendered":"Back by Popular Demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Due to the demand for the VSTS Web Access v2.0 preview, we have again made it available on the devBiz site here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.devbiz.com\/teamplain\/webaccess\/download.aspx\">http:\/\/www.devbiz.com\/teamplain\/webaccess\/download.aspx<\/a>\nThis is a pre-release of what will become the TFS Power Tool release of the VSTS Web Access feature.&nbsp; As I&#8217;ve mentioned before, testing has not yet been completed on it so some caution is advised.&nbsp; However, the list of improcements is compelling, so I understand why demand for it has been so high \ud83d\ude42&nbsp; Of course, the previously shipping V1 download is also still available.\nHere&#8217;s the list of enhancements&nbsp;the preview&nbsp;contains:\n<strong>General Improvements<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Better, faster and easier with the new Ajax user interface   <\/li>\n<li>Dramatic performance improvements for large team projects with a lot of work items, queries, area paths, and people   <\/li>\n<li>Theme support for the user interface (and a new Olive theme)   <\/li>\n<li>Localization support with language files   <\/li>\n<li>Manage alerts, subscribe to custom alerts   <\/li>\n<li>Home page customizations   <\/li>\n<li>Many dialogs open in their own window now, such as the work item editor, report viewer, file viewer and build results <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Work Item Tracking<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ajax style design to avoid page reloads and to provide live feedback about the status of the work items   <\/li>\n<li>Work item type icons   <\/li>\n<li>Context sensitive menus for work items   <\/li>\n<li>Improved web controls to handle large datasets better   <\/li>\n<li>Improved query editor with grouping   <\/li>\n<li>Edit multiple work items at once (bulk editing)   <\/li>\n<li>Add related work item   <\/li>\n<li>Create copy of a work item   <\/li>\n<li>Send work items and query results as email   <\/li>\n<li>Copy queries between team projects <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Build &#8211; <\/strong>There is a new &#8220;Build&#8221; tab in this release, allowing to manage team builds.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>View the list of builds, and apply filters   <\/li>\n<li>Start a new build   <\/li>\n<li>Monitor build progress live   <\/li>\n<li>View build logs, errors or warnings   <\/li>\n<li>Stop running builds   <\/li>\n<li>Delete a build   <\/li>\n<li>Change the quality of a build<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source Control<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Faster browsing   <\/li>\n<li>Visual Diff for text files   <\/li>\n<li>Annotate (a.k.a. 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