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DevOps, Git, and Agile updates from the team building Azure DevOps

Editing the IntelliTrace collection plan

March 9, 2015 Mar 9, 2015 03/9/15
Angelos Petropoulos
As you probably already know, Visual Studio offers an enhanced debugging experience through the use of IntelliTrace. Your application’s execution is recorded by IntelliTrace and you can navigate through time, both backwards and forwards, and examine your code as you normally would during a debugging session by interacting with the Call Stack...

Creating unit test method stubs with “Create Unit Tests”

March 6, 2015 Mar 6, 2015 03/6/15
Importer
In Visual Studio 2015 CTP 6 we are introducing the "Create Unit Tests" feature that provides the ability to create unit test method stubs. The feature allows easy configuration of a test project, and the test class and the test method stub therein. It is conveniently available as a context menu item, and can be invoked on product code at the ...

Introducing the Application Insights SDK for Java

March 6, 2015 Mar 6, 2015 03/6/15
Harel Broitman [MSFT]
When you publish a Java web application, you want a clear view of what users are doing with it and how it’s performing. Your most effective plan for future work comes from a deep understanding of how people use what you’ve already provided: which features they like, what patterns they follow, and what they find difficult. You also want to ...

Moving TFS to cloud cadence and Visual Studio Online

March 4, 2015 Mar 4, 2015 03/4/15
Buck Hodges
We get quite a few questions from customers on how we made the transition to shipping both an on-premises product and a cloud service. We moved from shipping every 2-3 years to shipping Visual Studio Online every three weeks and TFS every 3-4 months. I’ve written a new post that includes a document describing our move to a cloud cadence ...

Initiate a Load Test from Hosted Build work-around

March 4, 2015 Mar 4, 2015 03/4/15
Willy-P. Schaub
  Please note there are now much easier ways of doing this.  Please see: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudioalm/archive/2015/11/23/scheduling-load-test-execution.aspx                                                         We are gathered this week in a “Hackfest”, defined as a ...

Make Debugging Faster with Visual Studio

March 3, 2015 Mar 3, 2015 03/3/15
Andrew B Hall - MSFT
Have you ever been frustrated by slow debugging in Visual Studio? While we work hard to bring you a fast debugging experience, there are a lot of complex knobs that can affect the performance of any given application. In this blog post I’ll walk you through some tips you can use to improve the performance of your debug sessions and include ...

Adding Application Insights to a Windows 8.1 Universal App

February 25, 2015 Feb 25, 2015 02/25/15
Joshua Weber-MSFT
I’ve commonly been asked if Application Insights supports Windows 8.1 Universal Apps. You can be highly successful utilizing Application Insights with Universal Apps. Integration of Application Insights is a few additional steps but very straightforward. In this blog post, I’ll walk through the steps to integrate Application Insights into ...

CodeLens file activity and history now available for C++, JavaScript and SQL files stored in Git

February 24, 2015 Feb 24, 2015 02/24/15
Mathew Aniyan MSFT
CodeLens makes it easy to explore code changes and other history as you work. It provides a head-up display in Visual Studio editor that shows useful, in-context information about your code. This information, shown as a set of team indicators, tells you when the file was changed, who changed it, and lets you drill down into a vast range of ...

Performance Improvement When Debugging .NET Code With Visual Studio 2015

February 23, 2015 Feb 23, 2015 02/23/15
Andrew B Hall - MSFT
Nothing is more frustrating than trying to debug an application that runs significantly slower when you’re debugging it than it does when it runs without a debugger attached. Over the years we’ve received numerous complaints along the lines of “when I run my application without the debugger it takes a few seconds to execute a scenario, ...