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Re: Using Code Review to Improve Quality: Visual Studio Premium and Ultimate 2012

amirhosseinab — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 18:48:57 GMT

Wow! Greate feature.

posted by amirhosseinab

Re: Using Code Review to Improve Quality: Visual Studio Premium and Ultimate 2012

AndyDent — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 06:10:31 GMT

Please make it clear when features are available in Premium. Until prompted, I wouldn't have bothered watching this video because our team is only licensed for Premium and the title talks about Visual Studio Ultimate.

posted by AndyDent

Re: Using Code Review to Improve Quality: Visual Studio Premium and Ultimate 2012

digitalpacman — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 16:24:18 GMT

Is this only available if you use TFS?

posted by digitalpacman

Re: Using Code Review to Improve Quality: Visual Studio Premium and Ultimate 2012

Rafael Leonhard — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 19:59:48 GMT

The code review feature is available only in Visual Studio Premium and Visual Studio Ultimate.

Source: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh474795.aspx

posted by Rafael Leonhard

Re: Using Code Review to Improve Quality: Visual Studio Premium and Ultimate 2012

briankel — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 20:09:00 GMT

3 hours ago, digitalpacman wrote
Is this only available if you use TFS?

Yes, TFS is required to light up this feature.

posted by briankel

Re: Using Code Review to Improve Quality: Visual Studio Premium and Ultimate 2012

briankel — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 20:11:16 GMT

Aug 22, 2012 at 11:10 PM, AndyDent wrote
Please make it clear when features are available in Premium. Until prompted, I wouldn't have bothered watching this video because our team is only licensed for Premium and the title talks about Visual Studio Ultimate.

I agree. Good feedback. I have delivered it to the team posting these videos.

posted by briankel

Re: Using Code Review to Improve Quality: Visual Studio Premium and Ultimate 2012

teribium — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 05:04:23 GMT

Great Video.

Thanks for sharing... Good to see VS has now inbuild code review tool.

Is there any way we can find / generate report related to code review, code churn, code coverage, unit test cases vs unit test case bugs , code quality (code analysis stats), etc.

To put in other words, how I (or my team) can use Visual Studio 2012 (and TFS) to put together all above stats.. in one single view ...

posted by teribium

Re: Using Code Review to Improve Quality: Visual Studio Premium and Ultimate 2012

SHarshaG — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 16:55:56 GMT

Does this feature use FXCop ?

posted by SHarshaG

Re: Using Code Review to Improve Quality: Visual Studio Premium and Ultimate 2012

Bebo — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 14:29:28 GMT

What version of TFS is required to make this work? Will TFS 2010 enable this feature? Thanks!

posted by Bebo

Re: Using Code Review to Improve Quality: Visual Studio Premium and Ultimate 2012

emillman — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 23:14:00 GMT

@Bebo: this feature is only available when running with VS2012 + TFS 2012. If you connect to a 2010 TFS server with VS 2012 the code review feature should not show up in the team explorer.

posted by emillman

Re: Using Code Review to Improve Quality: Visual Studio Premium and Ultimate 2012

emillman — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 23:30:22 GMT

2 days ago, teribium wrote
Is there any way we can find / generate report related to code review, code churn, code coverage, unit test cases vs unit test case bugs , code quality (code analysis stats), etc.
To put in other words, how I (or my team) can use Visual Studio 2012 (and TFS) to put together all above stats.. in one single view ...

TFS supports reporting, this video seminar has a good introduction to the topic: http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2012/DEV410

posted by emillman

Re: Using Code Review to Improve Quality: Visual Studio Premium and Ultimate 2012

emillman — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 23:36:32 GMT

@SHarshaG: FxCop is not integrated with CodeReview; however, the codereview is stored as a shelveset. This means you can unshelve and work with the code locally.

posted by emillman

Re: Using Code Review to Improve Quality: Visual Studio Premium and Ultimate 2012

udaybr — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 13:20:27 GMT

hmm !! liked this feature

posted by udaybr

Re: Using Code Review to Improve Quality: Visual Studio Premium and Ultimate 2012

KMNY_a_ha — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 13:31:09 GMT

Does this feature also works with C++?

posted by KMNY_a_ha

Re: Using Code Review to Improve Quality: Visual Studio Premium and Ultimate 2012

usama wahab khan — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 17:47:58 GMT

Love it. its great tool. specially i thing its only IDE for Architects. its make my life easy and better.

posted by usama wahab khan

Re: Using Code Review to Improve Quality: Visual Studio Premium and Ultimate 2012

emillman — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 19:31:09 GMT

5 hours ago, KMNY_a_ha wrote
Does this feature also works with C++?

Yes it will work with C++. In general, any file in your solution/project can be included with a code review so long as it is being tracked with TFS.

posted by emillman

Re: Using Code Review to Improve Quality: Visual Studio Premium and Ultimate 2012

Vcp — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 20:25:19 GMT

Does code review feature work only with TFS 2012 server? What if I have vs2012 but the tfs server it connects to is not VS2012 tfs server?

posted by Vcp

Re: Using Code Review to Improve Quality: Visual Studio Premium and Ultimate 2012

emillman — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 20:43:54 GMT

@Vcp: Yes, in order to use the code review feature you will need to be running VS 2012 and TFS 2012. If you use TFS 2010 or earlier the code review feature will not show up in VS 2012.

posted by emillman

Re: Using Code Review to Improve Quality: Visual Studio Premium and Ultimate 2012

Katerina — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 10:22:57 GMT

Hello, is there any way to require request review creation from users before checkin ?
Thank you.

posted by Katerina

Re: Using Code Review to Improve Quality: Visual Studio Premium and Ultimate 2012

emillman — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 18:09:28 GMT

@Katerina: This is possible, but not supported by default. Using a gated check-in you can create a custom activity to do some additional validation by altering the build template. This would enable you to require check-ins to have a code review associated with them and reject the check-in otherwise.

posted by emillman

Re: Using Code Review to Improve Quality: Visual Studio Premium and Ultimate 2012

jeyaseelan — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 05:11:38 GMT

Is it possible to send incremental code review request ie., in next iterative request should allow the reviewer to see the fix along with his/her comment.

posted by jeyaseelan

Re: Using Code Review to Improve Quality: Visual Studio Premium and Ultimate 2012

emillman — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 15:59:21 GMT

@jeyaseelan: CodeReview does not yet support incremental reviews, but it is on our backlog. I'll be happy to pass along the feature request and I would also recommend posting it to the Visual Studio User Voice site (http://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-studio) The more we hear demand for a feature the more likely we will be to prioritize it.

posted by emillman

Re: Using Code Review to Improve Quality: Visual Studio Premium and Ultimate 2012

Alex — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 10:52:54 GMT

@digitalpackman: If you are not using TFS, there is a similar tool for code review in Visual Studio called Review Assistant http://www.devart.com/review-assistant/

posted by Alex

Re: Using Code Review to Improve Quality: Visual Studio Premium and Ultimate 2012

shanto — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 21:18:00 GMT

good one to work with team. Really helpful

posted by shanto

Re: Using Code Review to Improve Quality: Visual Studio Premium and Ultimate 2012

Dave Munro — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 16:45:53 GMT

Can the code review feature be made compulsory? ie on checking in changes the user has to create a review? or is it purely down to the user to create a review if they wish to?

posted by Dave Munro

Re: Using Code Review to Improve Quality: Visual Studio Premium and Ultimate 2012

Ams — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 16:58:10 GMT

Hey,

Can I use this feature for code review of solutions build in VS2010 with VS2012 and TFS2012?

posted by Ams

Re: Using Code Review to Improve Quality: Visual Studio Premium and Ultimate 2012

Ams — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 18:19:31 GMT

Hey,

Can I use this feature for code review of solutions build in VS2010 with VS2012 and TFS2012?

posted by Ams

Re: Using Code Review to Improve Quality: Visual Studio Premium and Ultimate 2012

Amit — Sun, 12 May 2013 18:06:35 GMT

Hey alvinho,

It would be nice to also show how to close the code review like should all reviews respond before the dev closes the review. Shold the review be closed before checking in the changes in TFS? No matter what I do I am not able to be see that the checkin would create a RELATED link to the code review. I have to later on go and add a new related link to the task with the review id so that I can see the link. FYI, I am using TFS 2012 Update 2 with VS2012 Update 2. What am I missing?

posted by Amit

Re: Using Code Review to Improve Quality: Visual Studio Premium and Ultimate 2012

emillmanmsft — Mon, 13 May 2013 15:37:13 GMT

@Dave Munro: This is possible, but not supported by default. You would likely need to customize the build process template for your TFS gate. See my reply to Katerina above for additional details.

posted by emillmanmsft

Re: Using Code Review to Improve Quality: Visual Studio Premium and Ultimate 2012

emillmanmsft — Mon, 13 May 2013 15:37:28 GMT

@Ams: The CodeReview feature is part of VS & TFS 2012. Projects created in VS 2010 against TFS 2012 can be opened and reviewed using VS 2012, but the feature is not available within VS 2010.

posted by emillmanmsft

Re: Using Code Review to Improve Quality: Visual Studio Premium and Ultimate 2012

emillmanmsft — Mon, 13 May 2013 15:45:16 GMT

@Amit: Reviews can be closed as either Complete or Abandoned from the Requestor's CodeReview toolwindow. This can be accessed from the MyWork toolwindow in the Team Explorer. A review can be closed at any time, and reviewers are not required to Accept/Decline prior to the requestor closing the review.

Work item and Review association with Check-ins is handled as part of the MyWork feature. When choosing to Check-in pending changes from the MyWork toolwindow you should see an area for Related Work Items. The review should appear in this list, if not it can be added by work item or queries.

posted by emillmanmsft