How To Create Wiki Page In Visual Studio Team Services

At present deprecated

The Wiki extension on the marketplace has been deprecated now and is no more bachelor for installation. We have released the new and revamped Wiki in VSTS which is a built-in feature and not an extension. Currently VSTS Wiki is in preview mode which means that you tin turn information technology on or off depending on your requirement.

Tell me more virtually the new VSTS Wiki

You lot can read about the rich features of the new VSTS Wiki in item in this document.

I am an existing wiki extension user. How exercise I migrate my existing markdown pages to the new Wiki?

If you are an existing Wiki extension user, then you can migrate your wiki pages to the new wiki using an open source tool adult by Microsoft. Learn more almost how to migrate your existing wiki pages to the new VSTS Wiki.

Annotation: Both Wiki extension and the new VSTS Wiki can co-be on the same VSTS project. We recommend to uninstall the Wiki extension after you have migrated your existing markdown pages from the extension to VSTS Wiki.

Capabilities of the onetime Wiki extension

Take your documentation in one place - correct within Visual Studio Team Services.

No demand for external tools
No syncing back and forth
No multiple logins

A visual editor that you will dear

Writing documentation does not have to be a pain. We believe that with a user friendly and intuitive editor writing tin can really be fun.

Total WYSIWYG experience
No knowledge of formatting syntax required
Copy & paste- and drag & drop image insertion
Markdown-mode with live preview

Bully for Product Owners

Use the wiki to sketch out your product road map and make sure anybody is on the aforementioned page. Your development team will love you for it.

Create separate wikis for strategic and technical content
Link to work items from wiki pages and vice versa
Sketch out Epics, Features and User Stories in wiki pages kickoff

Based on Markdown

Every wiki page is just a unproblematic markdown file so if you are more comfortable writing markdown you always have the option to edit the markdown source directly and run into a live preview of your folio.

Transparent content storage

Wiki pages are stored every bit markdown files in code repositories. Both git and tfvc are supported. This makes the wiki:

Swell for technical documentation aslope your code
Secure rock-solid storage hosted and supported by the @VSTeam
Leverage the ability of code repositories such equally history, diffing etc.

Dynamic content

The integrated nature of the wiki allows for endless possibilities in dynamic content.

In this version y'all are already able to embed work items into pages. Only there is a whole laundry list of integrations we are working on to embed content like:

Work item query results
Code snippets pulled from your lawmaking base
Team members with electric current tasks
Charts

Piece of cake on the eye

Spending a lot of time writing and reading documentation? We want y'all do accept a good time doing information technology and then nosotros go the extra mile to make the look and feel outstanding.

Built with extensibility in mind

Want to see diagrams, mind maps and more in your wikis?

With the extensibility model we enable integrations with existing tools to really brand your wiki pages come up alive.