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Release Management Update 3 CTP1 is now available with DSC Deployment Feature!

May 22, 2014 May 22, 2014 05/22/14
jayantivemulapati
We have just published the CTP1 for Visual Studio Release Management 2013 Update 3. You can download this release here and read through the KB article here. With this update, you can use DSC (Desired State Configuration) to deploy apps to your environments. Using DSC, you can run Powershell scripts on target servers of an environment ...

Test controllers are not visible or marked offline in MTM when multiple versions of MTM are installed

May 21, 2014 May 21, 2014 05/21/14
ChandanJ
When you have two or more versions of Visual Studio installed on a single machine and you try to use the newer version of mtm to connect to an older version of Test Controller, the Test Controller shows offline.The event log shows the following error message:Log Name: ApplicationSource: VSTTExecutionDate: 5/20/2014 2:58:45 AMEvent ID: 0Task ...

Application Insights in DevDays Finland

May 19, 2014 May 19, 2014 05/19/14
Charles Sterling
It is always very interesting to see how different technologies are adopted at different rates in different geographies for instance MSMQ initially had its largest user base Australia.  In rolling out Application Insights we have seen a large uptake in Europe namely Netherlands and Finland.  In the case of MSMQ the cause was ...

Behind the scenes: the Backlog Priority or Stack Rank field

May 14, 2014 May 14, 2014 05/14/14
Ewald Hofman (MSFT)
The backlog in TFS is an ordered list of work items, such as the product backlog. In Scrum you get the ordered list of PBIs and Bugs, in Agile you will see User Stories and CMMI contains the Requirements and Change Requests. The order of the backlog items is dictated by the the “Order” field as defined in the process configuration. The ...

Binding a Cloud Load Test to a data source

May 14, 2014 May 14, 2014 05/14/14
Charles Sterling
At StarEast I had a couple of Web Performance Tests in my demo solution that people asked about.  Namely the Web Tests called:  As the name suggests with the first Web Test is something I have been working with Perfecto Mobile on some of their new features and hope to have another post when they are ready to make an announcement – ...

.NET Edit and Continue Survey

May 13, 2014 May 13, 2014 05/13/14
Andrew B Hall - MSFT
This post has been modified to reflect that the survey has closed, and instead updated with the results. Thanks everybody for all the great feedback!  We received hundreds of replies with detailed information and concrete examples for us to review. We have closed the survey and have started to process the  data you provided. The ...

Migrating Your Data from TFS to Visual Studio Online with New Free Utility from OpsHub

May 12, 2014 May 12, 2014 05/12/14
Ed Blankenship
Update (November 16, 2016):   We have released a new high-fidelity migration solution for TFS customers migrating to Visual Studio Team Services directly from Microsoft.  You can find out more at this announcement blog post:  https://devblogs.microsoft.com/devops/import-your-tfs-database-into-visual-studio-team-services/     ...