July 25, 2017
The Velocity Widget is now available for those who’ve installed the Analytics Extension on their Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) accounts. The Velocity Widget provides functionality not available in the Velocity Chart displayed on the Backlog view, such as: Show velocity for any team, not just the current team Show velocity for any backlog level... Read More
July 21, 2017
Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics. TOP STORIES What is Visual Studio Team Services? A Look at Its Features, Uses, Tutorials and More – Angela StringfelloAt Stackify, we’re big fans of tools that make developers’ lives simpler, and one such tool... Read More
July 18, 2017
APIs are assets. As developers we learn them, write to them, and – if the API are extensible – we grow them. An extensible API removes barriers to introducing new abstractions closer to our own domains. Once such abstractions are in place, they in turn allow us to work with the underlying framework in a... Read More
July 18, 2017
We know that packages are a key way to bring in dependencies and to share your work with your users, and we know many of you are using private package sources (like Package Management, Artifactory, MyGet, and others) to develop packages inside your organization. To improve those workflows, over the past two sprints, we’ve released... Read More
July 17, 2017
Over the last few years we have introduced a number of ways to extend and integrate with Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) and Team Foundation Server (TFS). For example, client libraries for .NET (which work with both .NET Framework and .NET Core apps) and for Node.js and an extensibility model that allows extension of our web experience. The possibilities for developers... Read More
July 14, 2017
Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics. TOP STORIES 142 // Oh Dark Thirty with Colin Dembovsky – RadioTFSIn this episode Greg and Josh chat with Colin Dembovsky about just how early it is recording this on the West Coast, XAML Builds,... Read More
July 14, 2017
Recently, we’ve heard feedback from customers that developers have a poor experience creating and managing their alternate authentication credentials and that administrators moving from TFS to the cloud aren’t provided the policies they need to enforce how alternate authentication is used by their end users. This post will describe our plans to provide a better... Read More
July 7, 2017
Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics. TOP STORIES Work Item Customization Simplified! VSTS vs TFS – Steven BorgTeam Foundation Server (TFS) has always had work item customization power as one if it’s strengths. The experience, based on XML, was fraught with... Read More
July 6, 2017
Each project in Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) now supports its own Wiki. Now you can conveniently write pages that help your team members and other users understand, use, and contribute to your project. Create my first wiki page When you create your first Wiki, we will provision a git repository that will store all your... Read More
July 3, 2017
Deploy Visual Studio Test Agent (DTA) task in TFS/VSTS, is used for setting up Test Agent (TA) on multiple machines to run functional tests. Image below describes the functionality of the task and present reboot cases: DTA Task & need of Auto-logon To run UI tests that interact with desktop, test machine must have... Read More