Team Room – Each Team gets their own persistent chat and notification room where users can interact and be notified of Builds and work item changes dynamically.Typical states are To-do –> Doing –> Done. Task Board – Part of the Agile Planning Tools feature that was introduced in TFS 2012 the Task Board provides you a Scrum style board where Requirement types sit on the left and tasks flow through states associated with the Requirement from left to right.
In addition to Test Case management there are hubs for Agile Planning, Agile Portfolio Management, Work Item Tracking, Build Management, Code Management and now Reporting. Even more than in 2010 and in 2012 as we now have Test management right there in the web.
It looks like the team has populated my list of servers with all of the instances from that I have permission for, and that’s a lot. I was surprised when I opened the connection dialog on my brand new OS with Visual Studio 2013 RC installed and saw a list of TFS servers that I recognised.įigure: Visual Studio 2013 Team Explorer remembers your TFS Servers Visual Studio 2013 Team Explorer remembers your TFS Servers If you don’t you will see the usual big leaps. If like me you take the latest drop at all times you will see the bounding progression of features and enhancements.
If only every team building software would innovate as often. Some have been successful and some result is continuous change as the product team evolve things trying to meet our needs. Some of these enhancements have been small experiments and others have been large. There have been repeated and increasing enhancements to the Team Explorer. Visual Studio 2013 Team Explorer Enhancements The best way to get a heads up is still to create an account on as it is already ahead of the Release Candidate. These are just my initial observations from conducting a little exploratory testing on features that we saw in the TFS 2013 Preview and those things that I knew and suspected were coming down the line. I am going to assume that you have seen the aforementioned features and it should give you some idea of the pace of features improvement you get by being on the same cadence as the TFS product team. I would recommend that you have a look at What’s new in Visual Studio 2013 Team Foundation Server Preview for two reasons.
If you have been unable to install Visual Studio 2013 RC on Windows 8.1 Preview then you want to immediately get to grips with the new features. As you may have noticed the Visual Studio team has just put out a Release Candidate to the log awaited Visual Studio 2013 and TFS 2013.