ADF v2 public preview was announced at Microsoft Ignite on Sep 25, 2017. With ADF v2, we added flexibility to ADF app model and enabled control flow constructs that now facilitates looping, branching, conditional constructs, on-demand executions and flexible scheduling in various programmatic interfaces like Python, .Net, Powershell, REST APIs, ARM templates. One of the consistent pieces of customer feedback we received, is to enable a rich interactive visual authoring and monitoring experience allowing users to create, configure, test, deploy and monitor data integration pipelines without any friction. We listened to your feedback and are happy to announce the release of visual tools for ADF v2.
The main goal of the ADF visual tools is to allow you to be productive with ADF by getting pipelines up & running quickly without requiring to write a single line of code. You can use a simple and intuitive code free interface to drag and drop activities on a pipeline canvas, perform test runs, debug iteratively, deploy & monitor your pipeline runs. With this release, we are also providing guided tours on how to use the enabled visual authoring & monitoring features and also an ability to give us valuable feedback.
Read about it in the Azure blog.