Azure DevOps Blog

First public drill down of Application Insights at DevTeach Vancouver

November 16, 2013 Nov 16, 2013 11/16/13

Charles Sterling

(image)   For the folks going to the largest developer conference in Canada, DevTeach;  you are in for a real treat as you will be first people on the planet to see Application Insights in anger as the DevTeach organizers have graciously added a session for this exciting new topic.  Unfortunately due to a family emergency i ...

Announcing Application Insights Preview

November 13, 2013 Nov 13, 2013 11/13/13

Charles Sterling

Many folks have noticed I had practically stopped blogging. I have been working on one of the products Brian announced at the launch: Application Insights and as this service wasn’t in preview until today have not been able to blog about it. For those of you that weren’t able to make the launch, Application Insights is a set of services ...

Load testing with Visual Studio Online – Launching Commercial Preview

November 12, 2013 Nov 12, 2013 11/12/13

Manas Maheshwari

As announced at Visual Studio 2013 launch, today we are launching the Commercial Preview for cloud-based load testing using Visual Studio Online (previously called Team Foundation Service). To get started, download Visual Studio Ultimate 2013 RTM. If you already have load tests that you run locally, you can run the same tests now ...

Known issues with load testing in Visual Studio 2013

November 7, 2013 Nov 7, 2013 11/7/13

Darshan Desai [MSFT]

We hope you have downloaded  Visual Studio 2013 RTM and started using it to run your performance and load tests. One of the really cool features you should try out is the new cloud-based load testing we have introduced as part of Visual Studio 2013, which lets you generate load to test your app without having to worry about infrastructure ...

Implementing Deployment Markers in Application Insights

November 6, 2013 Nov 6, 2013 11/6/13

Anisha Pindoria

Application Insights is a set of services that integrates production monitoring data with development tools. In many of the demos you will see us opening the solution and code file directly from the production data. For instance in the screenshot below I can click on those blue dots it will take me directly to the specific changeset used to ...

TFS 2013 process templates get a name change

October 25, 2013 Oct 25, 2013 10/25/13

Kathryn Elliott

With the latest Team Foundation Service update and with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2013 RTM, we have changed the names of all process templates. From now on, the process template names will reflect the version of Team Foundation Server that supports their download.The new names are: You  can access process guidance and&...

System Center Performance Alerts and IntelliTrace

October 23, 2013 Oct 23, 2013 10/23/13

Larry Guger

Previously we told you about the initial integration between System Center Operations Manager and Visual Studio IntelliTrace that supports exporting exception data from System Center to Visual Studio using IntelliTrace. We are pleased to announce with the release of System Center 2012 R2 and Visual Studio Ultimate 2013 that performance data ...

Update your Overview and Progress reports to support the Portfolio backlogs

October 22, 2013 Oct 22, 2013 10/22/13

Ewald Hofman (MSFT)

In TFS 2010 we released the reports to show the overview of the backlog and the progress of the these items. It depends on your process template which reports were installed for you:ScrumBacklog OverviewAgileStories OverviewStories ProgressCMMIRequirement OverviewRequirement Progress The reports contain logic to rollup information to PBI...

Visual Studio 2013 Team Foundation Server version control and build

October 17, 2013 Oct 17, 2013 10/17/13

Andy Lewis

As Charles announced earlier today, we've just released Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server 2013. I'm here today to briefly highlight what's new in version control and TFBuild and to advise you about a known issue in TFBuild that we're working to fix. I need to tell you about one bug we recently discovered that causes a problem in ...

Announcing Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server 2013 RTM Availability

October 17, 2013 Oct 17, 2013 10/17/13

Charles Sterling

Visual Studio 2013 has been released to the web! This release has been an amazing ride. While adopting agile development processes across the entire developer division, we have constantly been adding value to Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server 2012 -all while planning and working on a new version of Visual Studio -2013. For ...