Get your code reviewed

Before you check in your code, you can use Visual Studio to ask someone else from your team to review it. Your request will show up in his team explorer, in "My Work". We'll follow Peter's code review request here.

You can follow along if you've connected to TFS and uploaded some code.

Request a code review

Peter has just added the line that prints "Hello, World" to his console app, and he asks Adam to review the change.

1. Before he checks in the change, Peter requests a code review.

   

2. He selects Adam as the reviewer, titles his changeset "Hello World output", adds a note, and then submits the code review request.

   

3. Peter suspends his work on Hello World so that he can work on something else while he waits to hear back from Adam.

   

Respond to the code review request

Adam will see the code review request in the team explorer, look at the changes, and give Peter his feedback.

1. Adam opens the my work page.

   

2. He sees Peter's code review request.

   

   You can get email alerts for code reviews, too. If you aren't getting them, you can sign up in the team explorer settings page.

   

3. Adam opens the code review request.

   

4. He opens the file that Peter changed.

   

5. Adam sees that Peter added a line of code to write "Hello, World". He adds a comment right from the difference window.

   

6. He suggests WriteLine() instead and sends the comment to Peter.

   

Update the code review based on the code review feedback

1. When Peter gets a response from Adam, he resumes the work on Hello World.

   

2. His changes are unshelved and the windows he had opened are restored, so he can take up where he left off.

   

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