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We're super excited to announce that several meetups featuring Visual Studio Team Services are taking over the world in the next 2 months. Check the meetups out if they're anywhere near you and meet other Team Services users as well as folks from our engineering team in a few of these! And as we publish this post, we're getting in some live updates...

Each month, we will bring you the insiders view into Visual Studio Team Services - how the product is developed, how we dogfood it and use it every day, who are the people behind it and tips and tricks on becoming a power user This month, we interview Gino Buzzelli, a Program Manager on the Dashboards team at the Microsoft Redmond campus. If you l...

The wait is over. With the latest deployment to Team Services, you can now add a checkbox to your work items. To do this, simply add a Boolean field to your work item type. It’s been a long journey and I’m sure more than one of you is wondering why it’s taken us so long. The simple truth is we just haven’t made it a priority when weighed against...

To build upon the work item functionality we added to our Team Services plugin a few sprints back, we have now created a Work Items tab that allows you to view the work items that are assigned to you. In this release, you are able to: This functionality allows you to easily switch between working in the IDE and keeping track...

In our latest release of the Team Services Plugin for IntelliJ, you can quickly and easily associate your Team Services or Team Foundation Server work items with your commits. The workflow is as simple as it can be:     1. Click on the "Select Work Items" button in the Commit Dialog to see a list of work items assigned to you &n...

Microsoft DevLabs is an outlet for experiments from Microsoft, experiments that represent some of the latest ideas around developer tools. Solutions in this category are designed for broad usage, and you are encouraged to use and provide feedback on them; however, these extensions are not supported nor are any commitments made as to their longevity...

If you're a developer working on a team that uses Git, you're probably using some form of topic branching to isolate your work.  If you're using any of the Agile tools in Visual Studio Team Services, you probably also have a bug, task, or user story that's tracking your development work.  Until recently, the best way to keep these items related was...

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 inputbo...

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 new year...

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 jumping into th...