Team Explorer reference

Applies to: Visual Studio Visual Studio for Mac

This article provides links to Azure DevOps articles about the various functions in Team Explorer.

Use the Team Explorer tool window to coordinate your code efforts with other team members to develop a project, and to manage work that's assigned to you, your team, or your projects. Team Explorer connects Visual Studio to Git and GitHub repositories, Team Foundation version control (TFVC) repositories, and projects hosted on Azure DevOps Services or an on-premises Azure DevOps Server (formerly known as TFS). You can manage source code, work items, and builds.

Home page

After you connect to a project in Team Explorer, the following links become available in the Project section:

• Clone repository
• Web Portal
• Task Board

The Home page has different functions depending on whether you're connected to a Git or Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) repository.

Home page with Git	Home page with TFVC

Changes page (Git)

See Save work with commits.

Branches page (Git)

See Create work in branches.

Pull Requests page (Git)

See Review code with pull requests.

Sync page (Git)

See Update code with fetch and pull.

Tags page (Git)

See Work with Git tags.

My Work page (TFVC)

See Suspend/resume work and Code review.

Pending Changes page (TFVC)

See Manage pending changes, Find shelvesets, and Resolve conflicts.

Source Control Explorer page (TFVC)

See Add/view files and folders.

Work Items page

The Work Items page lets you see work item queries. See:

• Add work items

• Use the query editor to list and manage queries

• Organize query folders and set query permissions

• Open query in Excel

• Open query in Project

• Email query results list using Outlook

• Create reports from query in Excel (TFS only)

Builds page

The Builds page lets you see build definitions for the project.

See:

• Create build pipelines
• View and manage builds
• Manage the build queue
• Install continuous delivery (CD) tools for Visual Studio
• Configure and execute continuous delivery (CD) for your app

Settings page

The Settings page lets you configure administrative features for either a project or project collection. See the following articles:

See also

• Connect to projects in Team Explorer