how to turn on the boards hub in VSTS - azure-devops

I have seen the boards hub in several videos on how to use VSTS. It is a preview feature and shows up right between "Work Items" and "Back Logs".
I have opted in on all the preview feature but cannot get it to show up.
here is a spot in a video talking about it:
https://youtu.be/16gOTI_OBw8?t=141
Here is what my opt in features shows:
What am I missing??

This feature is not available for now. And it will be available in the near future.
Details, you can find in Features under development:

You don't have access to the preview feature yet. For what it's worth, neither do I.
It's possible that the ability to opt-in hasn't rolled out to every account yet (including ours), or even that it hasn't rolled out to any non-internal Microsoft accounts.

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How do you enable the radio graph of your contributions on github

I was talking with a friend today and showed him my github contribution graph. After seeing it he asked how I got the little radio graph that shows the percentage of commits vs pull requests vs issues vs code reviews.
I remember enabling it in the settings at some point in the past but I cannot remember where I did it. I also looked through the settings just now and I don't see an option for it. Moreover when I search online I can't find any mention of it.
I feel like I'm searching using the wrong term for the graph or something. Anyone know where this feature is enabled??
It's called Activity Overview. You can enable it here:
https://docs.github.com/en/account-and-profile/setting-up-and-managing-your-github-profile/managing-contribution-settings-on-your-profile/showing-an-overview-of-your-activity-on-your-profile

Any chance Github Copilot steals closed source code?

I am pretty sure the answer is "no" or we'd hear about it, but wanted to double-check. Does Github Copilot even send any local code to the backend?
Ideally, I'd want an AI autocompletion tool to share proprietary code within an organization, and only there.
All calculations of GitHub Copilot happen on their Servers, none on your local machine. And if you don't disable telemetry as explained in their FAQ your interaction with Copilot (accepting/rejecting Suggestions) might be used to improve copilot, even tho they say your code will not be used. All this Information can be found in the FAQ: https://github.com/features/copilot (bottom of the page)
There are other competitors to Copilot that offer what you are looking for. Especially AI Learning on proprietary Code for your organization. But I won't disclose any names here since it could be seen as advertisement.

How does Microsoft Azure extension sorted?

Added many extensions from a marketplace such as Calendar and it is visible under Boards on the left pane. However, how do I sort them when there are many extensions added to my Boards?
Unfortunately, we are not able to change the order of any installed extension or build-in feature with boards under web portal UI.
You could submit a feature request in our official link.
Beside, not all extensions are installed in this specific place(actually only a little), it's based on the developer of the extension. You could check more detail info from here-- Develop a web extension for Azure DevOps Services
Not every extension adds a custom work hub as Calendar does. In fact, I suspect only a few of them do. Other extensions enrich other areas with new functionality. Often only build tasks are brought in.
There's definitely no filter option under the Boards hub. If there are plenty of custom work hubs, you'll have to scroll through those.
On the other hand, the Manage Extensions view has a nice and convenient Filter option:

GitHub for Windows - is it open source?

Is GitHub for Windows open source? If so, I can't seem to find the repository.
According to Tom Preston-Werner, one of the GitHub founders, in his post "Open Source (Almost) Everything", about the open-sourcing philosophy
Don't open source anything that represents core business value. [...] Notice that everything we keep closed has specific business value that could be compromised by giving it away to our competitors. Everything we open is a general purpose tool that can be used by all kinds of people and companies to build all kinds of things.
However, Hubot, previsouly a closed-source asset of GitHub, was eventually open-sourced in late 2011.
For the past year or so we've been telling people about Hubot [...] So we decided to rewrite him from scratch, open source him, and share him with everyone.
Currently, the Windows Github client is not an open source software... but who knows, it might be open-sourced one day.
Phil Haack (who currently works at GitHub) gave a hint in his blog comments to this effect:
At the moment, it is not open source. Many of the libraries we created are open source. As we polish up more and more of those libraries, we'll release more components we used to make the app.
So no, the application is not open source, but keep a look out for some parts of it being published on GitHub. (But bear in mind that this is just a blog comment, not an official announcement of any kind).
According to the latest news, GitHub for Windows is renamed to GitHub Desktop. It is redisigned with Electron and completely open sourced. The beta version has been released. The weblink of GitHub Desktop open source repository leaves here: https://github.com/desktop/desktop .

Is there any place to host your code online?

There are many free online services which provides you with large spaces to store your personal materials, mails, etc. But is there any place that can let us host our code - which keeps the change history?
Google Code or SourceForge may not be a ideal place because it requires creating a project which is specific and useful to others, while what I want is a place to hold any kind of code which I think is useful but may not be for anybody else.
It's all about Github. 300 MB repository for free. Nice interface, easy to use. Plus we all know GIT > SVN :)
You can get free GIT and SVN hosting at unfuddle.com
BitBucket allow for public and private Mercurial repositories.
Github has Gists that might work for you. Also, Snipplr.
http://codeplex.com is where MS provides open source source control via Team Foundation Server.
projectlocker is also a good alternative for free Subversion, Git hosting..
You can also get free, private SVN hosting at http://beanstalkapp.com/. Their 100MB package is free.
Google Code link.
How about http://cvsdude.com/ which paid or http://xp-dev.com/ which is free.
come on guys don't you see that he is interest only in hosting online some fragments
of code like some functions etc not full projects and also not public but private.
Of course it is possible with each and every solution you all said in your posts
but it is not exactly what he was looking for .
You all replied like spammers and is that's funny
So why don't you just use http://gist.github.com/
as someone already mentioned
You can host private projects on DevjaVu is you want to use Subversion.
http://www.svnhostingcomparison.com/
CVSDude does free 2M subversion repository, you can also use CVS if you pay.
I've used http://planetsourcecode.com/ to store all sorts of bits of code. Users even upload entire applications.
There are even online code editors available (well, a kind of, that project is still in the development phase).
Linky: https://bespin.mozilla.com/
I've used CodeSpaces for over a year now and never had a problem. I'm a new user so I apparently can't post links...
There are plenty of answers already submitted which are suited to hosting full-fledged applications so I won't bother adding to the list but if you're looking at hosting smaller things (code snippets, simpler projects) with revision history you could consider using a wiki?
I know this was posted 4 years ago, but you could always just sign up on Pastebin and have private source code there.
Pastebin has been around since 2002 and is currently "the #1 paste tool". It supports a number of syntaxes (including C++, C, Ruby, and Java. Full list on site.)
Edit;
Their PRO plan is only $2.95 USD for one month or $1.99 USD/mo if you purchase for a full year. You can find out more on the limits of free vs Pro here.
Edit 2;
If nothing else, sign up for Dropbox, SkyDrive, or Mediafire and upload your files there.
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