With the TFS integration enabled, you can perform basic TFS operations from inside PhpStorm. PhpStorm supports TFS up to TFS 2015. The information provided in this section assumes that you are familiar with the basics of the TFS version control system. I am using Visual Studio Community version 7.3.3 for MacBook. I am working on a project where the repository is hosted in Team Foundation Server (TFS).
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In this article, learn about the tools and clients that connect to Azure DevOps.
Our platform of software development tools began more than 20 years ago. We released Visual Basic and Visual Studio as an integrated development environment (IDE). Visual Studio supports many plug-ins that extend its functionality. In particular, the Team Explorer plug-in allows the Visual Studio client to connect to Azure DevOps to support source control, work tracking, build, and test operations.
The available tools that communicate with Azure DevOps are included as follows:
- Desktop client developer tools
- Office integration tools
- Web-based tools
- Command-line tools
- Marketplace extensions
- REST APIs
Desktop client developer tools
Developers have access to many tools through these versions of Visual Studio and plug-ins. To download any version of Visual Studio, go to the Visual Studio Downloads page. To understand what features you get with the Visual Studio versions, see Compare Visual Studio offerings.
- Visual Studio Community: A fully featured and extensible IDE for creating modern applications for Android, iOS, and Windows, including web applications and cloud services. (Replaces Visual Studio Express.)
- Visual Studio Professional: Development tools and services to support individual developers or small teams.
- Visual Studio Enterprise: Integrated, end-to-end development tools and solutions for teams of any size, and with a need to scale. It supports designing, building, and managing complex enterprise applications.
- Visual Studio Test Professional: Provides access to Microsoft Test and development tools to support quality and collaboration throughout the development process.
- Visual Studio Team Explorer: Free solution for non-developers to interact with Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio Team Services.
- Eclipse/Team Explorer Everywhere: Free plug-in to support teams running Eclipse on Linux, macOS, or Windows that connects to Azure DevOps.
- Android Studio with the Azure DevOps Services Plug-in for Android Studio: Free plug-in to support Android developers and connect to Git repositories on Azure DevOps.
- IntelliJ with the Azure DevOps Services Plugin for IntelliJ: Free plug-in to support developers who use IntelliJ IDEA or Android Studio to connect to Git repositories on Azure DevOps.
- Visual Studio Code: Free, open-source code editor with a free extension to support connecting to Git repositories on Azure DevOps.
To get started with client libraries, see Client library samples.
Team Explorer plug-in
Team Explorer, a plug-in to all Visual Studio versions, connects Visual Studio to projects defined in Azure DevOps. You can manage source code, work items, and builds. To learn more, see Work in Team Explorer.
Office integration tools
You can integrate the following Microsoft Office tools with Azure DevOps.
- Excel: Use Excel to add and bulk modify work items.
- Project: By using Project, you can plan projects, schedule tasks, assign resources, and track changes. You have access to additional features, such as a project calendar, Gantt charts, and resource views.
- Project Professional: With Project Professional, project managers and software development teams can use the tools that they prefer, work at the level of precision that supports their needs, and easily share information.
- Excel: Use Excel to add and bulk modify work items.
- Project: By using Project, you can plan projects, schedule tasks, assign resources, and track changes. You have access to additional features, such as a project calendar, Gantt charts, and resource views.
- Project Professional: With Project Professional, project managers and software development teams can use the tools that they prefer, work at the level of precision that supports their needs, and easily share information.
- PowerPoint Storyboarding: Illustrate user stories and requirements by using PowerPoint.
When you install any edition of Visual Studio or Team Foundation Server Standalone Office Integration 2015 (free), the Team Foundation plug-in integrates work item tracking with select Office clients. The Team Foundation plug-in installs to your existing Office client. The plug-in supports Office 2007, Office 2010, or Office 2013 versions.
- Excel: Use Excel to add and bulk modify work items.
- Project: By using Project, you can plan projects, schedule tasks, assign resources, and track changes. You have access to features that TFS doesn't support, such as a project calendar, Gantt charts, and resource views.
- PowerPoint Storyboarding: Illustrate user stories and requirements by using PowerPoint. The Team Foundation plug-in installs to your existing PowerPoint client.
- Project Professional: With Project Professional and the Team Foundation Server Extensions for Project Server, you can manage projects that synchronize data that exists in both TFS and Project Server. Project managers and software development teams can use the tools that they prefer, work at the level of precision that supports their needs, and easily share information.
Important
Support for integrating TFS with Project Server is deprecated for TFS 2017. However, synchronization support is provided by a Microsoft partner. See Synchronize TFS with Project Server for details.
Task-specific clients
The following clients support specific tasks, such as managing testing efforts, providing feedback, or modifying work items:
- Azure Test Plans: Manage your test efforts, create and run manual tests, and create and track bugs that are found during test efforts. Test Plans is installed with Visual Studio Test Professional and Visual Studio Enterprise.
- Test & Feedback extension (previously called the Exploratory Testing extension): This extension provides a lightweight plug-in to a web browser. Stakeholders can respond to feedback requests for user stories and features created in Azure DevOps. This extension is free to Stakeholders.
- Microsoft Feedback Client: Your Stakeholders can use this client to record feedback for your application as video, audio, or type-written comments. This client is installed with all versions of Visual Studio, or it can be installed from the free download. All feedback is stored in the work item data store and requires Stakeholders to have permissions.
Browser-based web tools
Web portal
The collaboration tools supported through the web portal are summarized under Essential services. New features are deployed every three weeks for Azure DevOps Services, and quarterly for Azure DevOps Server. For release notes, see Azure DevOps Services Features Timeline.
You can use the following browsers to access the web portal:
| Version | Microsoft Edge | Internet Explorer | Safari (Mac) | Firefox | Chrome |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Azure DevOps Services | most recent | 11 and later | 9.1 and later | most recent | most recent |
| Azure DevOps Server 2019 | most recent | 11 and later | 9.1 and later | most recent | most recent |
| TFS 2018 | most recent | 11 and later | 9.1 and later | most recent | most recent |
| TFS 2015 | most recent | 9 and later | 5 and later | most recent | most recent |
| TFS 2013 | 9 and later | 5 and later | most recent | most recent |
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Microsoft Edge, Firefox, and Chrome automatically update themselves, so Azure DevOps supports the most recent version.
To learn more, see Web portal navigation.
Browser-based extensions
The following extensions are available and are built and maintained by the Azure DevOps Services product team:
- Azure Test Plans: Run tests by using your browser with simple pass/fail of steps, add comments/attachments, take screenshots, and file bugs. You can accomplish it all with automatic end-to-end traceability.
- Azure Artifacts: Build packages of reusable code components and share them. The Azure Artifacts extension enables continuous delivery workflows by supporting multiple packaging protocols such as NuGet and npm. It makes packages available to your team, your builds, and your releases.
- Code search: Increase cross-team collaboration and code sharing. Enables developers to quickly locate relevant information within the code base of all projects that are hosted within an organization or collection. You can discover implementation examples, browsing definitions, and error text.
- Work item search: Quickly find relevant work items by searching across all work item fields over all projects in an organization. Do full-text searches across all fields to efficiently locate relevant work items. Use inline search filters, on any work item field, to quickly narrow down a list of work items.
Find additional extensions in Azure DevOps Organization settings > Extensions > Browse marketplace.
Application monitoring tools
To monitor your applications, you can use Azure Application Insights for web apps or HockeyApp for mobile apps.
Monitor web applications with Application Insights
Application Insights is an extensible application performance management (APM) service for web developers. Use it to monitor your live web application. Application Insights automatically detect performance anomalies. It includes powerful analytics tools to help you diagnose issues and to understand what users actually do with your app. Application Insights is designed to help you continuously improve performance and usability. It works for apps on a wide variety of platforms—including .NET, Node.js, and Java EE—hosted on-premises or in the cloud.
With Application Insights, you can do the following tasks:
- Gain actionable insights through application performance management and instant analytics
- Detect and diagnose exceptions and application performance issues
- Monitor Azure websites, which includes websites hosted in containers, on-premises, and with other cloud providers
- Seamlessly integrate with your pipeline by using Azure DevOps Services, GitHub, and our webhooks
- Get started from within Visual Studio, or monitor existing apps without redeploying
To learn more, see Microsoft Azure - Application Insights.
Monitor mobile applications with HockeyApp
With HockeyApp, you can develop, distribute, and beta test your mobile apps. HockeyApp supports the following apps and functionality:
- Android, Cordova, iOS, macOS, Unity, Windows, and Xamarin apps
- Live, reliable crash reports
- Collection of in-app feedback from real users
- Open-source SDKs to let you know what code is running in your apps
- Integration with your existing build system and work item management solution
To learn more, see Microsoft Azure - HockeyApp.
Command-line tools
You can do many code development and administrative tasks by using the following command-line tools:
Marketplace extensions
Visual Studio and Azure DevOps provide a wealth of features and functionality. They also provide a means to extend and share that functionality.
Extensions are simple add-ons that you can use to customize and extend your DevOps and work tracking experiences. They're written with standard technologies—HTML, JavaScript, and CSS. You can develop your own extensions by using your preferred dev tools.
You build extensions by using our RESTful API library. Publish your extensions to the Azure DevOps Marketplace. You can privately maintain or share them with millions of developers who use Visual Studio and Azure DevOps.
To learn more, visit the Azure DevOps Marketplace and see Overview of extensions.
REST APIs
The Azure DevOps APIs are based on REST, OAuth, JSON, and service hooks—all standard web technologies broadly supported in the industry.
REST APIs are provided to support building extensions to Azure DevOps. To learn more, see REST API overview.
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Microsoft is in the early planning phase for its next Visual Studio tool suite release, which will be known as Visual Studio 2019.
But now that the company also is on its way to becoming the owner of GitHub, and so much of its tools work is done in GitHub, company officials are opening up early on some of what to expect with the next release for both Windows and Mac.
Microsoft launched Visual Studio 2017 in March 2017. Officials are not yet saying whether Visual Studio 2019 will launch in calendar 2019; instead, they said they will say more in the coming months.
In a June 6 blog post, Partner Director of Program Management for Developer Tools John Montgomery did provide a few general goals for the Visual Studio 2019 release. Unsurprisingly, Microsoft's goal is to make the next release faster, more reliable, better for teams, easier to use and easier to get started with.
He added:
'Expect more and better refactorings, better navigation, more capabilities in the debugger, faster solution load, and faster builds. But also expect us to continue to explore how connected capabilities like Live Share can enable developers to collaborate in real time from across the world and how we can make cloud scenarios like working with online source repositories more seamless. Expect us to push the boundaries of individual and team productivity with capabilities like IntelliCode, where Visual Studio can use Azure to train and deliver AI-powered assistance into the IDE.'
Meanwhile, in other Microsoft dev tool news around GitHub, there's a post worth reading on Microsoft's MSDN Blogs site from earlier this week about VSTS (Visual Studio Team Services), Team Foundation Server (TFS) and GitHub.
In that post, officials note the VSTS team plans to continue to invest in the Git open source ecosystem around Git, libgit2, Git for Windows, GVFS, etc. They also note that VSTS and TFS already integrate with GitHub and 'that integration will continue to deepen.'
More from that post:
'After the acquisition completes, GitHub will become another first class offering for VSTS customers. It will not live in the same portal as VSTS, but GitHub will have the same integration and traceability as our existing version control offerings. Over time we expect to grow GitHub to support the breadth of customer needs including enterprises. We are committed to you, our customers, and the solutions will live as parallel alternatives. Our intent is to provide TFS and VSTS services the same degree of traceability from code to cloud with GitHub as well as the current Git and TFVC version control solutions already hosted in VSTS and TFS.'
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Microsoft officials said this week that they are anticipating regulatory approval for the GitHub deal to happen before the end of 2018.