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Azure Boards Project Paper Cuts

April 2, 2019 Apr 2, 2019 04/2/19
Ali Tai
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 Advanced Text Editor on the Work Item Form in Azure DevOps

November 12, 2018 Nov 12, 2018 11/12/18
Jessie Somekh
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 ...

New Work Hubs

June 22, 2018 Jun 22, 2018 06/22/18
Aaron Bjork
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

June 19, 2018 Jun 19, 2018 06/19/18
Jeremy Epling
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

June 18, 2018 Jun 18, 2018 06/18/18
Lauren Brose
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

May 21, 2018 May 21, 2018 05/21/18
Dan Hellem
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

May 1, 2018 May 1, 2018 05/1/18
Sam Guckenheimer
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 ...