VSTS - How work with change-set comments?

Question

We are using the visualstudio.com as our Project Manager provider. We've just starting using comments on the changeset to do Code-Reviews after commits.

Like this:

I have some doubts about using it:

• Is this way of use changeset comments like Code-Review is the right way? If not, why this even exists on the VSTS?

• As I see, the only way I get notifications about those comments is when I mark someone on the comment using "@". There is any other way to get notifications about these comments like any Visual Studio Extensions?

Thanks in advance,

Answer 1

Whether use changeset for code review, it’s depend on your work around (code view before check in or after check in).

If the changes are always approved to check in VSTS and you just want to discuss for code review, of cause you can use changeset to meet your requirement. And the functions of changeset as (you can find in changesets):

You can view a changeset to see what the exact file changes were, discover the owner's comments, find linked work items, and see if any policy warnings were triggered

If changes need to be approved by code reviewers before check in VSTS, you should not use changeset, you need to use code review instead.

For notifications, you can set in notification settings (https://account.visualstudio.com/DefaultCollection/_notifications) as you want, such as you can set to notice when code is checked in or code review changes etc.