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VSTS Analytics OData now publicly available

November 22, 2017 Nov 22, 2017 11/22/17
Gregg Boer
The Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) Analytics OData feed has been promoted to full public preview, available to everyone. Developers can use OData to access VSTS Analytics to write 3rd party or custom widgets. Or, write any tool or extension that takes advantage of the VSTS Analytics data model. This OData feed is built on VSTS Analytics, ...

Supporting Inner Source with Forks

November 21, 2017 Nov 21, 2017 11/21/17
Edward Thomson
We're very excited to announce that we've added the ability to fork Git repositories hosted in Visual Studio Team Services. If you work on open source projects, then you're probably already familiar with repository forks. A fork takes a Git repository and creates a duplicate copy of it - on Visual Studio Team Services - and lets you work in ...

Package Management adds nuget.org upstream source

November 20, 2017 Nov 20, 2017 11/20/17
Alex Mullans
Until now, we've focused on making Package Management in Visual Studio Team Services and Team Foundation Server the best place to store your private NuGet and npm packages, but we haven't focused as much on the packages you use from public sources like NuGet.org. We've had basic support for npmjs.com as an "upstream source", but that's about ...

Top stories from the VSTS community – 2017.11.17

November 17, 2017 Nov 17, 2017 11/17/17
Willy-P. Schaub
Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics. (image)  TOP STORIES (image) MICROSOFT CONNECT (image) VIDEOS TIP: If you want to get your VSTS news in audio form then be sure to subscribe to RadioTFS . (image)  FEEDBACK What do you think? How could we do...

Cloud-hosted Mac agents for CI/CD pipelines

November 16, 2017 Nov 16, 2017 11/16/17
David Staheli
Removing barriers to DevOps in the cloud Teams developing software for Apple devices have limited options when migrating to the cloud. Because such apps must be built on Macs, and because there are few cloud-hosted Mac offerings, many teams are forced to provide their own Mac hardware for CI/CD while the rest of their DevOps are hosted in the...

Release Gates: Releases with continuous monitoring built in

November 16, 2017 Nov 16, 2017 11/16/17
Shashank Bansal
Continuous monitoring is an integral part of safe deployments and DevOps pipelines. Ensuring the application in a release is healthy after deployment is as critical as the success of the deployment process. Enterprises adopt various tools for automatic detection of application health in production and for keeping track of customer reported ...

Introducing Azure DevOps Project

November 15, 2017 Nov 15, 2017 11/15/17
Atul Malaviya
In today’s world, organizations need to innovate and get to market faster. This requires learning latest technologies, using them in your product and deploying at a faster pace. Adopting Azure is one such scenario. Existing on-premise apps are getting migrated to Azure and new applications are getting developed to take advantage of Azure ...

Introducing the new CLI for VSTS

November 15, 2017 Nov 15, 2017 11/15/17
Will Smythe
Today we are announcing a new cross-platform command line interface for Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) and Team Foundation Server (TFS). This new CLI, currently in preview, lets you manage and work with pull requests, work items, builds, and more. Many more commands and capabilities will be added over time, hopefully with help from the ...

Announcing “Azure DevOps Project” public preview

November 15, 2017 Nov 15, 2017 11/15/17
Gopinath C H[MSFT]
In today’s world, organizations need to innovate and get to market faster. That needs learning latest technologies, using them in your product and deploying at a faster pace with Continuous Delivery enabled from day1. We are happy to announce the public preview of Azure DevOps Project. Azure DevOps Project helps you launch an app on the ...