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The APIs also let you add, remove, update, replace, and get information on a widget or a list of widgets on a dashboard. The documentation is available on Visual Studio online docs. Non-admin users can now create and manage team dashboards. Team admins can restrict non-admin permissions through the dashboard manager. For more information, see Dashboards. Some major changes have been made in Git for Team Foundation Server Included are a redesign of the Branches page and a new option to "squash merge".

The Branches page has been completely redesigned. It has a "mine" pivot that shows the branches you created, pushed to, or favorited Figure Each branch shows its build and pull requests status, as well as other commands like Delete. If you know the name of your branch, you can search to find the one you want quickly. For more details on branches, see Manage branches. The pull request experience has some major updates this release, bringing some really powerful diff capabilities, a new commenting experience, and an entirely refreshed UI.

For more details, see Review code with Pull Requests. When opening a pull request, the new look and feel is evident immediately Figure We have reorganized the header to summarize all the critical state and actions, making them accessible from every view in the experience. The Overview now highlights the PR Description and makes it easier than ever to give feedback Figure Events and comments are shown with the newest items on top to help reviewers see the latest changes and comments front and center.

Policies, work items, and reviewers are all provided in detail and reorganized to be more clear and concise. The biggest new feature in this release is the ability to see past updates made to a pull request Figure In previous previews, we released the ability to properly track comments as a PR is updated with changes. However, it's not always easy to see what's between updates. In the Files view, you can now see exactly what changed each time new code is pushed to your PR.

This is very useful if you've given feedback on some code and want to see exactly how it changed, isolated from all the other changes in the review. The new Updates view shows how the PR is changing over time Figure Where the Files view shows how the files have changed over time, the Updates view shows the commits added in each update. If a force push ever happens, the Updates view will continue to show the past updates as they occurred in history.

Use the full power of markdown in all your discussions, including formatting, code with syntax highlighting, links, images, and emoji Figure The commenting controls also have a more user friendly editing experience allowing multiple comments to be edited and then saved at one time.

It is now easier to add and remove reviewers from your pull requests. To add a reviewer or group to your pull request, simply enter their name into the search box in the Reviewers section. To remove a reviewer, hover over their tile in the Reviewers section and click the X to remove them Figure The traceability between builds and pull requests has improved, making it easy to navigate from a PR to a build and back.

In the build details view for a build triggered by a pull request, the source will now show a link to the pull request that queued the build. In the Build Definitions view, any build triggered by a pull request will provide a link to the pull request in the "Triggered By" column. Finally, the Build Explorer view will list pull requests in the source column.

Pull requests in VSTS have been improved to show comments left in files on the proper line, even if those files have been changed since the comments were added. Previously, comments were always shown on the line of the file where they were originally added, even if the file contents changed—in other words, a comment on line 10 would always be shown on line With the latest improvements, the comments follow the code to show what the user expects—if a comment is added on line 10, and two new lines were subsequently added to the beginning of the file, the comment is shown on line Even after the code has changed to shift the line with the original comment from 13 to 14, the comment is appearing in the expected place on line 14 Figure Teams that are using branch policies to protect their branches will want to check out the auto-complete action.

Many times, the author of a pull request is ready to merge their PR, but they are waiting on a build to finish before they can click Complete. Other times, the build is passing, but there is one reviewer that has not given the final approval. In these cases, the auto-complete action lets the author set the PR to automatically complete as soon as the policies are all approved Figure Just like the manual complete action, the author has a chance to customize the message of the merge commit and select the appropriate merge options Figure Once auto-complete has been set, the PR will display a banner that confirms that the auto-complete is set and waiting for policies to complete Figure When all the policies are met e.

As expected, if there is a build failure or the reviewer does not approve, the PR remains active until the policies are passing. When completing a pull request, you now have the option to squash merge Figure This new option produces a single commit containing the changes from the topic branch that is applied to the target branch. The most notable difference between a regular merge and a squash merge is that the squash merge commit will only have one parent commit.

This will mean a simpler history graph, as any intermediate commits made to the topic branch will not be reachable in the resulting commit graph. You can find more information at Squash merge pull requests. Build status success or failure is now clearly visible in the Code Explorer and Commit Details views Figure More details are just a click away, so you will always know if the changes in the commit passed the build or not.

You can also customize which builds post status in the repository options for the build definition. Additionally, the latest changes to the Commit Details view provide deeper insights about your changes. If you're using pull requests to merge your changes, you will see the link to the pull request that introduced the changes into the main branch or in the case of a merge commit, the PR that created it.

When your changes have reached main, the branch link will appear to confirm that the changes have been included. If you're already working with large files in Git audio, video, datasets, etc.

This makes it possible to view the full contents of these large files by simply clicking the file in your repo. For more information, see Manage large files with Git. Share code references easily with code links Figure Just select text in a file and click the Link icon. It will copy a link to the selected code. When someone views that link, the code you highlighted will have a gold background. It even works for partial line selections. Success or failure of the build is now clearly visible in the code explorer and commit details views Figure More details are just a click away, so you always know if the changes in the commit passed the build or not.

You can also customize which builds post build status in the repository options for the build definition. You will see new file icons matching the extension of the file in the explorer, pull requests, commit details, shelveset, changeset or any other view that shows a list of files Figure The new Git repository creation has been improved by providing users the ability to add a ReadMe file Figure Adding a ReadMe to the repository not only helps others understand the purpose of the codebase, but also allows you to immediately clone the repository.

In this release, we have increased the size of the logs, added Java build templates, and improvements to our Xamarin support to name a few changes. We have implemented a new design for the Queued builds page that shows a longer list of queued and running builds, and in a more intuitive fashion Figure For more information, see Administer your build system.

Build result section extensions can now specify which column and the order in which they appear Figure The result view has two columns, and all extensions are in the first column by default. Note: All third-party extensions will appear after the build result sections we include. Now you can jump from a build error to the line of code that caused it. Looking at the latest error on the primary build we use as a pull request policy internally, you see this Figure 40 :.

The previous log view only supported logs up to 10, lines. The new viewer is based on the Monaco editor used in VS Code and will support logs up to , lines. We have made it even easier for Java developers to get started with build by adding build templates for Ant, Maven, and Gradle Figure For more information on templates, see Build steps.

The Xamarin License step is no longer necessary and has been removed from the build templates. As part of this effort we are deprecating the task. All build definitions that use this task should be updated to remove it in order to prevent any disruption when the task is finally removed.

Finally, we have enhanced the Xamarin build definition templates to use these new tasks. Build your Xamarin app. Take advantage of the build capabilities to build your Docker images and upload them to the Docker Hub as part of your continuous integration flow Figure Then, deploy those images to a number of Docker hosts as part of Release Management.

The Marketplace extension adds all the service endpoint types and tasks necessary for you to work with Docker. If the build run to merge a pull request contains SonarQube MSBuild tasks, you will now see new code analysis issues as discussion comments in the pull request Figure This experience works for any language for which a plug-in is installed on the SonarQube server.

You can now choose which build definitions report their status back to the Git status API. This is particularly useful if you have many definitions that build a given repository or branch, but only have one that represents the real health.

It has been always possible to add notifications of XAML builds in the team room. With this sprint, users can also receive notifications from Build vNext completions. CI triggers for hosted Git repositories can include or exclude certain paths. This enables you to configure a build definition to run only when files in specific paths have changed Figure Since the introduction of integrated web-based Release management in Team Foundation Server , we have made several enhancements in this version.

We have incorporated the ability to clone, export, and import release definitions within Release hub, without requiring installation of an extension Figure For more details, see Clone, export, and import a release definition documentation. In the release summary page, we have enabled a contribution point for an external service to show environment-specific information.

In Team Services, this functionality is used to display a summary of test results when tests are run as part of a release environment Figure For more details, see Understand the summary view of a release documentation.

A new option when you configure an environment allows scripts to run as tasks in the environment to access the current OAuth token Figure For more details, see Environment general options documentation. Build and release tasks have an option to Continue on error in the Control Options parameters for each task. In a build definition, this results in a Build partially succeeded result if a task with this option set should fail.

The same behavior is now available in release definitions. If a task fails, the overall release result will show as "Release partially succeeded" Figure By default, a partially successful release will not automatically trigger a release to a subsequent environment, even if this behavior is specified in the environment deployment options.

However, a new option can be set in each release environment that instructs Release Management to trigger a release to a subsequent environment when the previous release is partially successful Figure For more details, see Environment deployment triggers documentation. Sometimes you may want to consume artifacts stored in a version control system directly, without passing them through a build process, as described in this topic. NET 4, Node, and Python based web apps. The task also supports common publishing options such as the ability to retain app data, take an app off-line, and remove additional files at the destination.

More features, such as configuration transformations, may appear in forthcoming versions Figure A task group lets you encapsulate a sequence of tasks already defined in a build or a release definition into a single reusable task that can be added to a build or release definition just like any other task Figure You can choose to extract the parameters from the encapsulated tasks as configuration variables, and abstract the rest of the task information.

The new task group is automatically added to the task catalogue, ready to add to other release and build definitions. For more details, see Task Groups documentation. When you delete a release, or it is automatically deleted by a retention policy, the release is removed from the overview and details lists. However, it is retained with the release definition for a period typically 14 days before it is permanently deleted. During this period, it is shown in the Deleted tab of the overview and details lists.

You can restore any of these releases by opening the shortcut menu and choosing Undelete Figure For more details, see Restore deleted releases documentation. The release retention policy for a release definition determines retention duration for a release and linked build. By default, a release is retained for 60 days. Releases that have not been deployed or modified during that time are automatically deleted. However, you may want to retain more releases that have been deployed to specific environments, such as your production environment, or retain them longer than those that were just deployed to other environments such as test, staging, and QA.

You can also retain the build linked to a release for the same period as the release to ensure that the artifacts are available if you need to redeploy that release Figure For more details, see Release and build retention documentation. Including a Manual Intervention task in an environment enables you to temporarily halt a deployment, perform manual steps, and then resume further automated steps.

You can also reject the deployment and prevent further steps from executing after a manual intervention Figure For more details, see Manual intervention documentation. The scripts can be provided as a file, or inline within the task.

Pin a release definition to the dashboard - an easy way to make a summary of releases for that definition visible to all your team.

For more details, see Add release information to the dashboard documentation. Want all your production deployments to happen at midnight?

You can configure a condition on an environment that selects a successful deployment or just the latest one from another environment, and deploys it at the specified time Figure Until the previous version, you could do parallel deployments forkdeployments , but you could not start a deployment to an environment based on the status of multiple environments join deployments.

Now you can. For more details, see Parallel forked and joined deployments documentation. Chapter 4: Configuration 4. Select Basic in the left panel of the wizard start screen and click Start Wizard. Otherwise that option will be disabled and you can choose your SQL Server instance. Then click Next. In the Readiness Checks screen wait until your proposed configuration passes all validations and then click Configure.

Your TFS Beta 2 is now installed and configured. Click Close in the final screen to finish the configuration. Your Windows 7 machine is just fine for the Basic configuration. The installation is now separated from the configuration.

This will allow you to change your configuration depending on your future environment needs without performing a full installation each time. The wizard will take care of everything to make sure you go from zero to a complete TFS installation with only a few clicks.

The wizard will also install it if you dont have it. The Readiness Check is a huge time saving step. It will make sure your configuration will actually work before starting the configuration process. In previous versions you might need to wait until being in the middle of the installation process just to get an alert that tells you that you gave incorrect configuration data. To check in the code completely in Source Control Right click on your project solution and select check In.

Once the code was added to Source Control, there will be lock symbol in the solution, package and other items in project. Right click on the project solution and select Check Out for Edit option. Once the code was Checked Out from source control, you can see the tick mark in the project solution. To add a label to the project solution, open your project under source control.

Right click on the project select Apply Label 1 and in the next wizard 2 select the version in which you want to apply the label, default option is Latest Version and click ok. Then give the Name of the label and the comments for the project and click ok 3. Right click on project select Get Specific Version option.

Click on the Type list box in Version section, we you can see the 4 different options. Select the required option and click Get. Select the appropriate option which you required and click on Find then you can see the details in Result section and click Ok. Were you give the name of the Label, Project and the Owner name and select Find. It will give you the code with appropriate label name and select the label and close the wizard and click on the Get button in Get wizard.

This option is similar to which we discussed in section 6. For each pending change, you can view the associated work items, the associated. You can also compare the pending change with another version of the file. You can commit specified pending changes by performing a check-in to Team Foundation version control.

Before you check in your pending changes, use the Get Latest command to download the most recent sources from the server, and then compile your code to make sure that it does not break the build. As part of your check-in, you can associate or resolve work items with the changeset and you can provide check-in notes.

You can review adherence to check-in policy for the changes. These policies are configured by an administrator and if necessary, the policies can be overridden. You must resolve any conflicts that are caused by your pending changes.

If conflicts occur, a dialog box appears, and you must resolve them before you can complete the operation. If you have made changes to one or more files that are under version control and you want to discard those changes, you can undo those pending changes.

You might do this if a change is believed to be too risky, or if testing determines that the change introduces new quality or performance issues. If you have already checked in the change and want to revert it, you must instead roll back the change.

You cannot roll back changes by using Team Explorer Everywhere. You must instead use the command-line client for Visual Studio. When you revert changes, you will be prompted to confirm the operation for any files that have changed. You will not be prompted if any of the following conditions are true: The pending change is not of type edit. The pending change has no working folder mapping. This should occur only if the mapping was removed.

This can be helpful if you want to change an item in your workspace and then check it in without being forced to resolve any merge conflicts. Only one user at a time may hold a lock on a particular file or folder.

If you want to prevent access to an item in a persistent way, you should use the Permission Command instead. Check-in lock A check-in lock is less restrictive than a check-out lock. When you apply a check-in lock, users can continue to make local changes to the item in other workspaces. But those changes cannot be checked in until you explicitly remove the check-in lock from the item or implicitly remove it by checking in your changes to the file. Specifically, check-out locks are: Not enforceable because other users might be using local workspaces.

Not available if you are using a local workspace. Disabled if a member of the Administrators security group of your team project collection has enabled asynchronous checkout for your teams server workspaces.

A check-out lock prevents users who are using server workspaces from checking out and making changes to the locked item in their workspaces. You cannot apply a check-out lock to an item for which any pending changes exist, in any workspace other than your own. How to Shelve and Unshelve Pending Changes Shelving: Shelving enables you to set aside the pending changes in your workspace to work on a higher-priority task or to share your code with another user for code review.

Perform a Get Latest operation to synchronize your workspace with the latest server version. Then you must build your application to make sure that it compiles before you shelve it or check it in. Doing so gives you an opportunity to incorporate changes to versioned files that have been made outside your workspace. In the Shelve - Source Files dialog example, shelvetest in the Shelveset name box.

By default, this option is selected. When this option is selected, the changes you made to the files or folders in your local workspace are preserved. Evaluate Policies and check-in notes before shelving. When this option is selected, all check-in policies are evaluated before the shelveset is created. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name.

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