User Voice site for Team Services has moved to its own area
The Visual Studio brand represents a suite of tools for every developer and every app, and includes three componentsA powerful IDE to create stunning apps for Windows, Android, iOS, and the web with a...
View ArticleScheduling Load Test Execution
After publishing Load Testing from different geographies with Cloud-based load testingI have have had a couple of people ask how do you schedule Load Tests. Depending on what type of load testing you...
View ArticleGit and TFVC together, Package Management build tasks, and more – Nov 18
Note: The improvements discussed in this post will be rolling out throughout the week. Please follow progress of the deployment at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vsoservice/.Git and TFVC in the same team...
View ArticleDeploy artifacts from OnPrem TFS server with Release Management Service
SummaryDid you know you could consume artifacts from build definitions on an OnPrem TFS Server and deploy your applications using the Release management service in Visual Studio Team Services, that too...
View ArticleDebug UWP Prelaunch with VS2015
On Windows 10, the startup performance of Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps is improved by proactively launching and then suspending apps in a technique called Prelaunch. Many applications will not...
View ArticleTesting Java Applications with Visual Studio Team Services
If you watched the Connect() event I am sure you noticed that we are focusing on enabling cross platform development with Visual Studio Team Services. This definitely includes testing those...
View ArticleTFVC and Git repositories in the same team project
Many teams are transitioning from TFVC to Git for version control and want to keep their work items, build definitions, and other data in their team project. Now with TFS Update 1 or Team Services, you...
View ArticleCoded UI Test Extensibility V2
In VS2013 Update 2 we enhanced the Coded UI Test extensibility model to support plugins built for Windowless controls including controls in Modern Apps. These series of blogs should give an overview of...
View ArticleAnnouncing the Git Credential Manager for Windows 1.0
I’m pleased to announcing version 1.0 of the Git Credential Manager for Windows (GCM) is available. Since we introduce the first beta in October 2015, we received great feedback from the community and...
View ArticleCreating Load Test Plugins for Cloud-based Load Test
This week I have had two questions that involved the need to create a load test plugin. In the latest scenario the person wanted the for Cloud-based load test to ramp up the user count randomly (yes...
View ArticleAdding a custom field to a work item
Thank you everyone for your patience, but the wait is finally over. Today begins our journey delivering process customization to Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS)! We’re releasing the first stage of...
View ArticleCustom work item fields and more – Dec 10
We’ve got quite a few things to cover in this week’s deployment. Let’s jump right in…Custom work item fieldsI’m happy to announce that, with our deployment this week, all customers now have the ability...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2015 Test Tools getting started content
One of the most common requests we get is for getting started content. To this end this post will high light the labs, videos and getting started posts that will help you get started. If you happen to...
View ArticleThe new work item form
It's been a long journey, but I'm excited to let you know that the new work item form for Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) is finally here! In this post, I want to walk you through the reasoning...
View ArticleCloud Load Test Build Task information
We are updating the Visual Studio Team Services Build Steps and thought these topics would be of interest: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/Library/vs/alm/Build/steps/index. If you want to create your...
View Article6 Great Webinars including: Building Building a DevOps practice step-by-step
Northwest Cadence and Rennie Araucto are offering a bunch of great webinars to bring in the Holidays and your New Year.Unleash your DevOps potential with Visual Studio Enterprise! Dec. 15 | 9am |...
View ArticlePHP Build Task from Cory Fowler’s DevOps PHPWorld Presentation
As you may have seen from the DevOps presentation I have been hanging out with Cory lately…For his PHPWorld Presentation we teamed up to see how hard it would be to get our DevOps demo working with...
View ArticleRelease Management Workflow Migrator
Looking to export a Release Management agent based deployment pipeline so that it can be reused in the Release Management service in Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS)?We have released a migration tool...
View ArticleDeveloper Division’s transformation to DevOps by Sam Guckenheimer
Good friend and coworker, Sam Guckenheimer presented at a recent Gartner conference how we changed the developer division from shipping a box product ~every year to delivering value every week with...
View ArticleBecome a Scrum.org Professional Scrum Developer Trainer
ALM MVP, Richard Hundhausen, is running a Professional Scrum Developer Trainer event in London, England 8-12 February, 2016. This event is host the only 2016 Scrum.Org training in the United Kingdom...
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