Visual Studio Tools for Azure DevOps

Learn how to work with the built-in Azure DevOps tools in the Visual Studio IDE. Discover how to leverage Azure Repos, Boards, and Pipelines in your DevOps workflow.

Introduction

• Use Azure DevOps tools from the Visual Studio IDE
• What you should know

1. Setup and Overview

• Overview of Azure DevOps
• Understand the DevOps payment plans
• Sign in to the DevOps web portal
• Create an Azure DevOps project
• Create an Azure DevOps team
• Connect Visual Studio to Azure DevOps
• Open DevOps projects in Visual Studio
• Team Explorer with Azure DevOps

2. Azure Repos

• What are Azure Repos?
• Connect to Azure Repos in the Team Explorer
• Add application code to an Azure Git repository
• Connect to Azure Repo as another team member
• Commit changes as another team member
• Use Git commands from Solution Explorer
• Commit local before sync
• Sync changes with a remote repository
• Create a branch
• Add a Visual Studio project to a new local repository
• Create an Azure DevOps project from existing Visual Studio project

3. Azure Boards

• What are Azure Boards?
• Add console app to a DevOps project
• Create a work item on the web portal
• Create a work item in Visual Studio
• Change a team member assignment in Visual Studio
• Filter work items
• Commit changes and associate with work item

4. Pipelines

• What are Azure Pipelines?
• Examine the dev and deployed version of the example app
• Use git push to trigger Azure Pipelines
• Tour the CI/CD parts on the DevOps site
• Publish an existing web app to Azure App Service
• Publish an existing web app to Azure Pipelines
• Use a pull request to trigger Azure Pipelines

Conclusion

• What's next