Friday, 20 November 2015

Shopping in the Marketplace with Visual Studio Team Services

With the rename, Visual Studio Online Visual Studio Team Services introduces the Marketplace for its extensions.

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It is a very welcome addition to the platform, as it enables scenarios of customisation in a very easy way.

Once you are logged in your VSTS account, you can browse and choose an extension:

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Each extension has its own page with all the details, and it is the entrypoint for the installation:

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The amazing thing is that it is all on your service – clicking Install brings you to an installation page, where you need to select the VSTS account you want to install the extension in:

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That’s it! Once installed, you can go back to your account and start using it!

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It is transparent for the users, which will just see the extension working as a feature of VSTS. All the extensions are managed at account (hence Collection) level.

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