General Settings

The General Settings page is where you configure your personal settings for DevMethodVS Tools. Access it from the Visual Studio Tool/Options/DevMethodVS Tools menu.

In the settings page you have the following options

Validation

Use branch validation

Select if you want to use branch validation or not. The branch validation is experimental and can give you the wrong validation result depending on the structure of your repo.

Validate the activity field on Tasks.

This will look for a defined activity on a selected field and validate the state on the work item.

Show warning when not assigned to Task.

Warn if you pick a work item that is not assigned to you.

Automatically add missing work items on verify.

When verifying, add the missing related child or parent work items.

Cherry Pick Options

Automatically add work items from the Cherry Pick list.

Insert the work items used in the change set as your in-progress work items.

Automatically add the change set information from the Cherry Pick list into the check-in comment.

Add text linking the merged change set to your check in.

Azure storage connection

Manual Connection Setup

Perform a manual setup, this is usually only necessary one time, as the setup should be exported to an encrypted file for distribution.

Import connection...

Import the connection setup to connect to the shared settings for the project.

Refresh settings

Reload the settings from the shared storage and refresh the local cache.

Turn off shared settings (Azure integration), no features from DevMethod Tools will be available.

If the DevMethod Tools isn’t used in the project, turn of all features that is shared via the tool. This is not recommended as many features will be unavailable.

Load license…

Pick and load a valid license file for the product.