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“Reference could not be resolved” error when validating your architecture using Visual Studio architecture modeling tools

April 7, 2015 Apr 7, 2015 04/7/15

Importer

When you validate your application architecture in Visual Studio using the modeling tools available from the Architecture menu in Enterprise versions of Visual Studio 2012 and 2013, you may see an error message that the primary reference could not be resolved, and the validation will not proceed. This issue does not affect Visual Studio 2015...

Application Insights: Choose your own Performance Counters

April 1, 2015 Apr 1, 2015 04/1/15

Soubhagya Dash (MSFT)

You’ve always been able to see some performance counters in Metric Explorer: Process CPU, Available Memory, and so on. Windows has lots of other performance counters, and you may also have defined your own custom counters. And now with the latest Application Insights SDK for web apps you can collect any performance counters you choose – ...

Generating excel reports for load test runs done in between 03/19-03/31

March 31, 2015 Mar 31, 2015 03/31/15

Deepak.Singhal [MSFT]

Recently there was a bug caused in our system due to which customers will not be able to see the relevant data in the Excel reports for their runs done during the following period. This will affect only the excel report generation of the run.   Incident start time – 03-19-2015 11:00:00 Incident end time –  04-01-...

Announcing 100 core support for VSO Cloud-based Load testing and more!

March 23, 2015 Mar 23, 2015 03/23/15

Jimson Chalissery [MSFT]

Cloud-based Load Testing with Visual Studio Online now supports  up to 100 cores for a single load test run. Until now in Cloud-based Load Testing, you could use up to 20 cores (10 agents) in a single load test run. With the support for 100 cores, you should be able to generate 5 times the concurrent users than before. For example, , in a ...

ALM webinars, conferences and events

March 20, 2015 Mar 20, 2015 03/20/15

Charles Sterling

After my last post on upcoming ALM Webinars i received a bunch of emails about other great ALM and DevOps events…So i spent some time putting them in chronological order. Hope this helps next time you are considering re-watching an old series on Netflix or increasing your knowledge about emerging trends in the DevOps space. ALM Webinars...

April and May DevOps Webinars by Northwest Cadence

March 18, 2015 Mar 18, 2015 03/18/15

Charles Sterling

The warm weather in Seattle has definitely seems to have had an effect on everything!  My feature team (Load Test) is ahead of schedule, the flower gardens are in full bloom and and the folks at Northwest Cadence seem to be ON FIRE with over 20 ALM and DevOps events for people to attend. With Dan, Rennie and Steve (one of the all time ...

Free Webinar on Professional Scrum Development by Richard Hundhausen March 18 2:00 PM PST

March 16, 2015 Mar 16, 2015 03/16/15

Charles Sterling

Good friend, noted author and fellow car fanatic is offering a webinar on Scrum development.See you there! Pro Scrum Development: A Conversation with Richard Hundhausen In this new webinar from Microsoft we will introduce you to the guy who literally wrote the book on Professional Scrum Development, Richard Hundhausen.  In this ...

Visual Studio Online – Bugs not showing on the backlog?

March 12, 2015 Mar 12, 2015 03/12/15

Aaron Bjork

UPDATED: Mar 13, 2015 We found the problem here and confirmed that it was isolated to just a few accounts, and for a short period of time.  If you run into this issue, the steps below should correct it.  Don't hesitate to reach out if you have any questions.  ----------------------- We're rolling out an update to Visual Studio Online...

CodeLens in Visual Studio Online is now in Public Preview for Europe region

March 11, 2015 Mar 11, 2015 03/11/15

Mathew Aniyan MSFT

 We are delighted to announce that the Public Preview of CodeLens in Visual Studio Online is now available to customers in the West Europe Region. CodeLens in Visual Studio Online was initially released as a Public Preview in Dec 2014. With the addition of Western Europe Region, all Visual Studio Online customers can now use CodeLens to ...

Load testing Applications behind Firewall using Cloud-based Load Testing Service

March 9, 2015 Mar 9, 2015 03/9/15

Deepak.Singhal [MSFT]

Cloud-based Load Testing Service can be used for performance and scale testing of an application by generating load from Azure. It is often observed that application is deployed in the internal environment behind the firewall before it is deployed to production or you have an application that is deployed internally and accessible on your ...