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Azure Boards Project Paper Cuts

Ali TaiApril 2, 2019Apr 2, 201904/2/19

We recognize that throughout the years, Azure Boards's workflows have accumulated smaller issues and usability nitpicks which have failed to become part of bigger product initiatives. This is where Project Paper Cuts comes in.

New Basic Process Available in Azure DevOps

Dan HellemFebruary 14, 2019Feb 14, 201902/14/19

Our new Basic Process is now available in Azure DevOps. This process is light and simple so you can get started working immediately without having to understand any complex concepts. Give it a try today.

New Advanced Text Editor on the Work Item Form in Azure DevOps

Jessie SomekhNovember 12, 2018Nov 12, 201811/12/18

With the Azure DevOps Sprint 143 Update, we’re excited to announce the availability of our new rich text editor on the work item form in Azure Boards. The work item form can be accessed in Azure Boards from the work items hub, boards, backlogs, and queries. This editor is also open source, which means you can check out the roosterjs ...

Announcing new REST API’s for Process Customization

Dan HellemSeptember 14, 2018Sep 14, 201809/14/18

In the new 5.0 (preview) version we combined the two inherited REST API's under a single domain. Making it much easier to determine what REST API endpoints to use. What domain you need depends on the process model used by your projects.

New Work Hubs

Aaron BjorkJune 22, 2018Jun 22, 201806/22/18

In 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. In this post, we’ll describe a few of the first steps in that journey. From one hub to three ...

New Navigation for Visual Studio Team Services

Jeremy EplingJune 19, 2018Jun 19, 201806/19/18

I’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. That goal is...

Queries Hub Updates Generally Available

Lauren BroseJune 18, 2018Jun 18, 201806/18/18

The 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. Expanded Directory pages The left panel for query navigation has been ...

Announcing the deprecation of the WIT and Test Client OM

Dan HellemMay 21, 2018May 21, 201805/21/18

Updated 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, support...

Announcing the DevOps Resource Center

Sam GuckenheimerMay 1, 2018May 1, 201805/1/18

One 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, Git (including Git at scale), and Agile. There's ...

Power BI and VSTS – Integration made easy

Romi KoifmanApril 16, 2018Apr 16, 201804/16/18

We 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, and it works for the largest accounts. Similar to a work items query, an Analytics View ...

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