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DevOps, Git, and Agile updates from the team building Azure DevOps
June 22, 2018Jun 22, 201806/22/18In our recent post “New navigation for Visual Studio Team Services” we shared an early look at our plans for the upcoming year. For the Work hubs in VSTS, we’re investing in ways that address usability issues many of you have shared with us.
June 19, 2018Jun 19, 201806/19/18I’m excited to share the new navigation we’re working on for Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) to modernize the user experience and give you more flexibility. As Lori mentioned in her blog post, our goal to create an integrated suite that also gives the flexibly to pick and choose the services that work best for you.
June 18, 2018Jun 18, 201806/18/18The New Queries Hub streamlines many of the existing features from the old hub and provides new capabilities to make it easier to get to the queries that are important to you. It is now generally available for VSTS customers and coming to TFS in the next major version.
May 21, 2018May 21, 201805/21/18Updated contents on April 2, 2019
Since the first version of Team Foundation Server (TFS) in 2005, we have provided a set of SOAP APIs for programmatic interaction with Work Items and Tests. In recent years, REST has replaced SOAP as the preferred method for building integrations offering a simpler and more flexible programming model,
May 1, 2018May 1, 201805/1/18One of the favorite parts of my job is curating a web site with the stories of how we work. Those experience reports and more of our guidance are now consolidated at https://aka.ms/devops.
In addition to our own stories, this center offers content to help your team learn DevOps practices,
April 16, 2018Apr 16, 201804/16/18We are excited to announce an easy-to-use solution for integrating Power BI with VSTS Analytics. You don’t have to know how to write OData queries anymore!
Our new feature Analytics views makes getting VSTS work tracking data into Power BI simple,
March 1, 2018Mar 1, 201803/1/18With our Sprint 131 update (rolling out over the next few weeks), there are some major changes coming to the @CurrentIteration macro used for work item queries. We are introducing the concept of a macro parameter, as well as allowing an offset to @CurrentIteration.
January 30, 2018Jan 30, 201801/30/18Why can’t Stakeholders view the Analytics widgets?
That is a question we often heard. Now we have an answer. They can!
Well, now they can.
We’ve updated the VSTS Analytics extension to allow users with Free licenses (Stakeholders license) to view Analytics widgets.
January 11, 2018Jan 11, 201801/11/18We have been working hard to improve the integration between VSTS Analytics and Power BI. We are happy to announce we’ve released the first step in doing so.
The VSTS Power BI Desktop Connector has been updated to provide additional options for historical trend and bug analysis.
December 1, 2017Dec 1, 201712/1/17The round-up is back for November! I’m sorry for not posting in October. My wife and I welcomed our second child, a girl, into the world. I was at home spending time with them because they grow up so fast 🙂
But now I’m back,
