Boardpane — Azure DevOps Boards & Pull Requests for VS Code

Your Azure DevOps work items and pull requests in the sidebar. Sign in with the Microsoft account VS Code already has — no PAT, no config. Works in VS Code and Cursor.

Free

• My Work Items — what's assigned to you and not closed in the project you pick, with state and age.
• Pull Requests — the active PRs in your project, in three sections: needs my review, created by me, everything else. Your own vote is marked on each. Comment without leaving the sidebar.
• Change a work item's state, add a comment, create a branch for it and switch to it, or copy the branch name (123-fix-login-bug).
• A status-bar count of your work items and the PRs waiting for your review.
• Open anything in the browser.
• Sign in with Microsoft, or paste a Personal Access Token.

Pro — $19 once, yours forever

• Create work items without leaving the editor.
• Review pull requests in VS Code — native diff for every changed file, then approve, reject or complete from the same menu. Complete lets you pick squash, merge commit, rebase or semi-linear merge, deletes the source branch, and tells you in plain words when Azure DevOps or a branch policy turns it down.

Buy at boardpane.com/pro. One licence key works on every machine you use.

Setup

1. Install, click the Boardpane icon in the activity bar, click Sign in with Microsoft.
2. Pick your organisation and project (Boardpane: Choose organization and project).
3. Optional: change the WIQL query in settings (boardpane.workItemQuery).

Clicking a row opens it in the browser. Right-click a work item or pull request for everything else: change state, comment, create a branch, and (Pro) review the pull request.

If your org blocks the Microsoft sign-in, or it does not finish for your account, use Boardpane: Sign in with a Personal Access Token — the token needs Work Items (read & write), Code (read & write) and Project and Team (read), and is stored in VS Code's secret storage.

Privacy

Boardpane talks only to dev.azure.com / *.visualstudio.com and, when you enter a licence key, to api.polar.sh to validate it. No telemetry, no server of ours in the middle.

Pro re-checks your licence key with Polar about once a day, and keeps working for 14 days if it cannot reach Polar.

In a folder you have not trusted (VS Code Restricted Mode) the Boardpane icon does not appear — trust the folder to use it.

What Boardpane cannot do yet: https://boardpane.com/limits

Support: support@boardpane.com