Azure DevOps Code Review: Tools and Setup Guide (2026)

Why Azure DevOps for code review Azure DevOps remains one of the most widely used development platforms in enterprise software, and its code review capabilities are a major reason why. Microsoft reports over 100,000 organizations use Azure DevOps, with particularly strong adoption in finance, healthcare, government, and any industry where the Microsoft ecosystem is already deeply embedded. If your team runs Visual Studio, .NET, SQL Server, or Azure cloud infrastructure, Azure DevOps is the natural home for your repositories, CI/CD pipelines, and code review workflows. Yet Azure DevOps code review is frequently misunderstood. Teams coming from GitHub assume the pull request experience will be identical. Teams evaluating platforms often dismiss Azure DevOps because they associate it with the legacy Team Foundation Server era. The reality is that Azure DevOps offers a pull request review system that is more configurable than GitHub's in several important ways - particularly around branch