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Team Foundation Server 2013 Update 2 and Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 Release Candidate now available

April 2, 2014 Apr 2, 2014 04/2/14
Charles Sterling
This final release of Team Foundation Server 2013 Update 2 and release candidate of Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 has over 100 new features and over 30 in JUST in the ALM space alone!  As many already know the developer division is now continually adding features to Visual Studio and these quarterly updates are our chance to both fix issues ...

Did you uninstall Release Management Server and lose access to the Release Management client?

April 2, 2014 Apr 2, 2014 04/2/14
Tim Elhajj
It can happen. If you uninstall the RM server and a client is still pointing to that server (one that is now no longer available, because you just uninstalled it), you will get this error message the next time you launch the client.(image) You can recover by using ReleaseManagementConsoleAdjustConfigFile.exe, a new command line tool included ...

Diagnosing memory issues with the new Memory Usage Tool in Visual Studio

April 2, 2014 Apr 2, 2014 04/2/14
Harikrishna Menon
As part of our continued effort to provide great diagnostic tools for developers, Visual Studio 2013 introduces a new Memory Usage tool as a part of the Performance and Diagnostics hub. The Memory Usage tool supports Windows Store and Windows Phone Store apps using C#/VB/C++ and XAML. This blog post gives you an overview of this tool and helps...

Need to migrate Release Management Server?

April 2, 2014 Apr 2, 2014 04/2/14
Anand Gaurav
In order to migrate Release Management Server, follow these steps in sequence: 1. Backup existing Release Management server DB. (Learn about How to: Back Up a Database) 2. Export crypto key.  (For more details on the RSA crypto key export, check ‘Exporting an RSA Key Container’ section of Importing and Exporting Protected ...

Deploy automatically to virtual machines in Windows Azure using Visual Studio Release Management

April 2, 2014 Apr 2, 2014 04/2/14
Anand Gaurav
Visual Studio Release Management can be used to achieve continuous deployment to virtual machines in Windows Azure. When configured correctly, Release Management is able to deploy to a VM residing on the cloud just as easily as to a VM hosted locally. This article will explain the steps in order to start a VM on the cloud, deploy to it, and ...

Code Metrics PowerTool for Visual Studio 2013 Available on Microsoft Download Center

April 1, 2014 Apr 1, 2014 04/1/14
Charles Willis (MSFT)
Visual Studio offers the ability to measure your code’s complexity and maintainability with the Code Metrics window. See the MSDN documentation for more information. In the distant past (circa 2011), we introduced a PowerTool that allows you to gather these same measurements from the command-line. This enables straightforward integration...

Next best thing to being at Build (Build Application)

March 31, 2014 Mar 31, 2014 03/31/14
Charles Sterling
I am getting ready for Build and realized I wanted an easy way to view, search and add sessions to my schedule…Luckily the the folks at BlueFragments have created this Application! Of course this application is entirely instrumented with Application Insights – which I will be demoing at the Build conference! See you there!   (image...

Installing the Application Insights tools for Visual Studio could win you cool prizes at Build

March 27, 2014 Mar 27, 2014 03/27/14
Charles Sterling
This year not only am I lucky enough to go to Build but I am going down with a bunch of cool prizes such as the new Arc Mice (I have been trying to get one of these since Christmas!!) or a Premium Turtle Beach Xbox One (noise canceling!) Gaming Headset Which begs the question:  “How do I get one!?””: (image) (image)       Day ...