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DevOps, Git, and Agile updates from the team building Azure DevOps

Quickly navigate with keyboard

Shortcuts have been in Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) and Team Foundation Server (TFS) for a long time, but not many keyboard shortcuts were available and it was not discoverable. Since a few deployments we have introduced more shortcuts using the MouseTrap open source library. You can now type in keys whenever you are not focused on an ...

VSTS Process Customization futures (January 2016)

NOTE: An updated roadmap as of June 2016 is now available. Last month, we released our first major milestone for process customization - the ability to add a field and modify layout, checkout my blog post on the topic if you haven't seen it yet.  As I shared in July, this was just the first scenario of our overall plan: With the ...

Adding a custom field to a work item

Thank you everyone for your patience, but the wait is finally over.  Today begins our journey delivering process customization to Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS)!  We’re releasing the first stage of the rollout plan I described back in July, the ability to add custom fields & modify layout for existing work item types.  Before ...

New fields bring Kanban goodness to queries, and more

In VSO, the Kanban board is your control room. Like traditional switchboards and status indicators, the board empowers teams with mission critical information: which work items are in progress, where the bottlenecks are, who the work is assigned to, and so on. There’s a certain calm to knowing all of this... and we get it. As consumers of...

Process Template changes to TFS 2015 RTM

With the release of TFS 2015, we have also updated the process templates. All of these changes were done to: Many of you have requested a list of the improvements that we have made to the process templates, so here we go.Template changes Workflow changes Field changes...

Agile Project Management Futures (August 2015)

UPDATED: Oct 2, 2015 Last month we knocked two items off this list.  You can read about these new features here: https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/news/2015-sep-18-vso More is coming in the next few sprints, stay tuned... - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - This post details some of the agile project management ...

Continuous Deployment: Dev/Test in Azure and Deploy to Production On-premises

Easily provision the required resources in Microsoft Azure using the Azure Resource Manager templates, and deploy Web applications and SQL Server Databases to the Azure Virtual Machines (VMs), and run tests that are automatically distributed across VMs using the Visual Studio Test Agent. Once the application's functionality is verified, deploy...