| title | titleSuffix | description | keywords | ms.subservice | ms.assetid | ms.author | author | ms.topic | monikerRange | ms.date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Navigate in Visual Studio Team Explorer |
Azure DevOps |
Learn how to download Azure DevOps clients and navigate in Team Explorer |
Download Azure DevOps clients |
azure-devops-new-user |
fd7a5cf7-7916-4fa0-b5e6-5a83cf377a02 |
chcomley |
chcomley |
conceptual |
<= azure-devops |
12/16/2022 |
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You use Team Explorer to coordinate your code efforts with other team members to develop a software project. In addition, you can manage work and that is assigned to you, your team, or your projects. Team Explorer is a plug-in that installs with Visual Studio. Developers can effectively collaborate using Team Explorer connected to projects hosted on Azure DevOps Services or an on-premises Azure DevOps Server.
Tip
You can install the latest version of Visual Studio clients from the Visual Studio downloads page.
Additional options for connecting to Azure DevOps Services or TFS include:
For information about compatibility among client and server versions, see Requirements and compatibility.
If you don't need Visual Studio, but want to connect to a project in Azure DevOps, you can install the free Visual Studio Community.
- You must have a project in Azure DevOps. If you need to add a project, see Create a project.
- You must be a member of the project you connect to. To get added, see Add users to a project or team.
Team Explorer connects Visual Studio to projects in Azure DevOps. You can manage source code, work items, and builds. The operations available to you depend on which source control option—Git or Team Foundation version control (TFVC)—was selected to manage source code when the project was created.
Tip
If you open Visual Studio and the Team Explorer pane doesn't appear, choose the View>Team Explorer menu option from the tool bar.
From the Connect page, you can select the projects you want to connect to and quickly switch connection to a different project and or repository. For details, see Connect to a project.
The Git and TFVC repos support different pages and functions. For a comparison of the two version control systems, see Choosing the right version control for your project.
The following image shows the pages available when you connect to a Git repository from Visual Studio Team Explorer.
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For more information about each page, see the following articles.
:::row::: :::column span="1"::: Home and Builds :::column-end::: :::column span="1"::: Git version control :::column-end::: :::column span="1"::: Work items :::column-end::: :::row-end:::
:::row::: :::column span="1"::: Home - Web portal - Task Board
**Builds**
- [Create build pipelines](../pipelines/tasks/index.md)
- [View and manage builds](../pipelines/get-started/what-is-azure-pipelines.md)
- [Manage the build queue](../pipelines/agents/pools-queues.md)
:::column-end::: :::column span="1"::: - Create a new repo - Clone an existing repo - Changes: Save work with commits - Branches: Create work in branches - Pull Requests: Review code with pull requests" - Sync: Update code with fetch and pull - Tags: Work with Git tags - Git preferences - Git command reference :::column-end::: :::column span="1"::: Default experience (Visual Studio 2019 and later versions) - View and add work items - Set the Work Items experience in Visual Studio
**Legacy experience** (All Visual Studio versions)
- [Add work items](../boards/backlogs/add-work-items.md)
- [Query editor](../boards/queries/using-queries.md)
- [Query folders](../boards/queries/organize-queries.md)
- [Query permissions](../boards/queries/set-query-permissions.md)
- [Open query in Excel](../boards/backlogs/office/bulk-add-modify-work-items-excel.md)
- [Send email with work item or print](../boards/work-items/email-work-items.md)
- [Create reports from query in Excel](/previous-versions/azure/devops/report/admin/create-status-and-trend-excel-reports)
:::column-end::: :::row-end:::
The following image shows the pages available when you connect to a TFVC repository from Visual Studio Team Explorer.
For more information about each page, see the following articles.
:::row::: :::column span="1"::: Home and Builds :::column-end::: :::column span="1"::: TFVC :::column-end::: :::column span="1"::: Work items :::column-end::: :::row-end:::
:::row::: :::column span="1"::: Home - Web portal - Task Board
**Builds**
- [Create build pipelines](../pipelines/tasks/index.md)
- [View and manage builds](../pipelines/get-started/what-is-azure-pipelines.md)
- [Manage the build queue](../pipelines/agents/pools-queues.md)
:::column-end:::
:::column span="1":::
- Configure workspace
- Suspend/resume work, Code review
- Pending Changes: Manage pending changes, Find shelvesets, Resolve conflicts
- Source Control Explorer: Add/view files and folders
- Add Check-In Policies
- Version control commands
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:::column span="1":::
Default experience (Visual Studio 2019 and later versions)
- View and add work items
- Set the Work Items experience in Visual Studio
**Legacy experience** (All Visual Studio versions)
- [Add work items](../boards/backlogs/add-work-items.md)
- [Query editor](../boards/queries/using-queries.md)
- [Query folders](../boards/queries/organize-queries.md)
- [Query permissions](../boards/queries/set-query-permissions.md)
- [Open query in Excel](../boards/backlogs/office/bulk-add-modify-work-items-excel.md)
- [Send email with work item or print](../boards/work-items/email-work-items.md)
- [Create reports from query in Excel](/previous-versions/azure/devops/report/admin/create-status-and-trend-excel-reports)
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Note
Some pages, such as Reports, only appear when an on-premises TFS is configured with the required resources, such as SQL Server Reporting Services.
The Reports page opens the Reporting Services report site. This page appears only when your project is configured with SQL Server Analysis Services and Reporting Services. Also, the option to Create Report in Microsoft Excel appears only when reporting is configured for the project.
If your project is missing one or more pages, try to add functionality to your on-premises TFS deployment.
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From the Settings page, you can configure administrative features for either a project or project collection. For more information about each page, see the following articles. Most of the links open to a web portal administration page. Not all settings are available from the Team Explorer plug-in for Eclipse.
:::row:::
:::column span="":::
Project
- Security, Group Membership
- Security, Source Control (TFVC)
- Work Item Areas
- Work Item Iterations
- Portal Settings
- Project Alerts
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Project Collection
- Security, Group Membership
- Source Control (TFVC)
- Process Template Manager
Other
- Git Global Settings
- Git Repository Settings
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For more information, see About team, project, and organizational-level settings.
If data doesn't appear as expected, the first thing to try is to refresh your client. Refreshing your client updates the local cache with changes that were made in another client or in Azure DevOps. To refresh Team Explorer, do one of the following actions:
- To refresh a page that you're currently viewing, choose :::image type="icon" source="../boards/media/icons/te-refresh-query-icon.png" border="false"::: Refresh in the menu bar (or choose F5).
- To refresh the project you selected, choose :::image type="icon" source="media/work-team-explorer/IC547418.png" border="false"::: Home, and then choose
Refresh (or choose F5). - To refresh the set of teams defined for the project that you selected, choose Connect, and then choose :::image type="icon" source="../boards/media/icons/te-refresh-query-icon.png" border="false"::: Refresh (or enter F5).
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