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

IntelliTrace standalone collector is back!

August 7, 2014 Aug 7, 2014 08/7/14
Angelos Petropoulos
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 IntelliTrace and you can navigate through time, both backwards and forwards, and examine your code as you normally would during a debugging session ...

Restrict Team Foundation Build permissions

August 6, 2014 Aug 6, 2014 08/6/14
Andy Lewis
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 reduce the risk that unauthorized team project collection members can use a build process to bypass team project permissions. ...

Work-items tracking using Release Management

August 4, 2014 Aug 4, 2014 08/4/14
Anand Gaurav
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 Summary” feature. Details of this feature is described below Change Summary feature details Manual Release When you start a new manual ...

Microsoft’s journey to Cloud Cadence

August 4, 2014 Aug 4, 2014 08/4/14
Importer
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.  Unfortunately I wasn’t able to attend as we had several conferences here in Redmond/Seattle but luckily we can check it out online here: ...

Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 now available

August 4, 2014 Aug 4, 2014 08/4/14
Charles Sterling
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 features for Web developers including updates to ASP.NET Identity and Entity Framework.  For team members focused on Application Lifecycle workflows ...

Driving Unit Tests from Cloud Load Test

August 1, 2014 Aug 1, 2014 08/1/14
Charles Sterling
  ** 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 to your data centers using the Cloud and Microsoft Azure. It has been noted that Visual Studio Load Testing is widely used inside of ...

Where is the field on the work item form to order the backlog?

July 8, 2014 Jul 8, 2014 07/8/14
Ewald Hofman (MSFT)
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 the items and updates the field to arbitrary values, which caused confusion. If you are interested in the detailed background, please read a ...

Load Testing with Visual Studio Online

July 8, 2014 Jul 8, 2014 07/8/14
MSDNBlogAdmin
Check for performance issues on your web site before they impact your customers. Perhaps you expect an increased user load from a marketing campaign. Use cloud-based load testing with Visual Studio Online to test if your application can handle all the new users. With cloud-based load testing it’s easy: Watch a short video about ...