Category Archives: VSTS

Introducing VSTS Quick Reply: a Chrome extension that helps you collaborate quicker in VSTS discussion

Posted on July 7, 2018 by Bernado

Teams often leverage the discussion feature, in particular the ability to @mention team members, in VSTS for work items to collaborate on requirements, tasks and bugs. In large teams it is common to @mention several team members on messages to … Continue reading →

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How to get current user info in VSTS web by JavaScript

Posted on June 28, 2018 by Bernado

I have been exploring extending the VSTS web interface and I needed to get the display name of the current user in JavaScript. It turns out there is a JavaScript variable that is available on all pages, namely __vssPageContext. This … Continue reading →

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Getting VSTS user ID by display name using REST

Posted on June 28, 2018 by Bernado

I have been exploring the VSTS REST API lately. While there are quite a few services that require the user ID as parameter, it isn’t very obvious how you can obtain that user ID for a given user in the … Continue reading →

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