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CodeLens Processing pipeline performance improvements
IntroductionCodeLens is a heads-up display in your Visual Studio Editor where you can find information about your code in-context. See this MSDN article for an introduction to CodeLens - Get history...
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How to setup environments for Agent-less deployments in Release Management...
With Microsoft Release Management 2013 Update 3 RC, you can now use Windows PowerShell or Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) for deploying and managing configuration data. We now...
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How to deploy to Standard or Azure environments in Release Management 2013...
With Microsoft Release Management 2013 Update 3 RC, you can now use Windows PowerShell or Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) for deploying and managing configuration data. We now...
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Get Application Performance Counters of your choice during load runs with...
Goal of a load testing activity is to identify and fix performance bottlenecks. Visual Studio Online integrates Cloud Load Testing with Application Insights to give deep insights into performance and...
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How to trigger deployments to Chef managed environments from Release...
Pre-requisites for triggering Chef deployments using RM: Target node must already be bootstrapped and registered with Chef serverRelevant cookbooks uploaded to Chef Server. Cookbook should have an...
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Where is the field on the work item form to order the backlog?
In our latest deployment to Visual Studio Online on July 1, we have removed the Stack Rank (Agile / CMMI) or Backlog Priority (Scrum) field from the work item form. The backlog uses that field to order...
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Deploying using PowerShell Desired State Configuration in Release Management
With Microsoft Release Management 2013 Update 3 RC, you can now use Windows PowerShell or Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) for deploying and managing configuration data. Windows...
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Driving Unit Tests from Cloud Load Test
Visual Studio Load Testing has always made it easy to create Load Tests. Now with Visual Studio Online it is also easy to verify the performance capacity of your software of 1,000s of users external...
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Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 now available
With around 60 new features Visual Studio Update 3 has value through the entire development process from the new SDKs and emulators for Windows Phone and Windows Store development to the ~20 new...
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Microsoft’s journey to Cloud Cadence
Last week the Visual Studio product owner Sam Guckenheimer keynoted the Agile 2014 Conference. In his presentation he went through our teams changes/learning's to adopt a DevOps workflow....
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Work-items tracking using Release Management
Tracing what is new in a given release for a product is often tiresome and time taking task. With Microsoft Release Management 2013 Update 3 RC/RTM, you can achieve this easily through its “Change...
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Restrict Team Foundation Build permissions
Do you have code that should be seen by only a subset of members of your on-premises team project collection? Do you use Team Foundation Build (TFBuild)? If so, you must create some custom groups to...
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IntelliTrace standalone collector is back!
As you probably already know, Visual Studio Ultimate offers an enhanced live debugging experience (F5 or Attach) through the use of IntelliTrace. Your application’s execution is recorded by...
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Visual Studio Online Updates - Jul 21
We have lots to share with you in this week’s deployment. So let’s get into it…Using corporate identities with existing accountsA popular request for the service has been corporate identity (Active...
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Project Welcome Pages
We recently deployed a new feature to Visual Studio Online to help people get new team members started with a project and for people browsing the server to understand what a project is for and how to...
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Application Insights - instrumentation approaches for running tests
[this summer Beckylin Orooji from the University of Central Florida in Orlando studying Computer Science interned with the Application Insights team in the developer division at Microsoft. Below is a...
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PerfTips: Performance Information at-a-glance while Debugging with Visual Studio
You are probably all familiar with the debugger DataTips that let you see the value of a variable when you hover over it in the editor. This post introduces the new PerfTips feature in Visual Studio...
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Project Welcome pages - Aug 18
Following up on last sprint’s support for using corporate identities with existing accounts, we’ve now enabled auto-approval for the preview, enabling anyone to link their existing Visual Studio Online...
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Data-Driven Load Tests using Visual Studio Online and SQL Azure
Editors Note: While working in Australia I was blessed to work with some truly gifted technologists. In the SQL space David Lean was the local legend with the (deserved) reputation of being THE SQL...
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Stakeholder licensing – Aug 27
A license for StakeholdersWe’re delivering on the new “stakeholder license” that I promised a few weeks ago. With this license, being activated today, any number of users in an account can be assigned...
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