December 8, 2017
This week we released Visual Studio 2017 Update 5. In this release, we added new Git features which were based on your UserVoice requests to support Git submodules, Git worktrees, fetch --prune, and pull --rebase. To learn more about all of our Git features and what’s new in Visual Studio 2017 Update 5, check out our Git... Read More
December 8, 2017
Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics. TOP STORIES DevTest Labs, Artifacts, WinRM, and Network settings – Wouter de Kort In this blog post I’ll show you an easy way to configure PowerShell remoting (WinRM) on your machines and share some networking... Read More
December 1, 2017
Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics. TOP STORIES #LearningVSTS – Creating My First Visual Studio Team Services Site and Team Project – Mickey GoussetBack when I first started blogging about and using Visual Studio Team System, my blogging style was to... Read More
December 1, 2017
Search wiki pages Over time as teams document more content in wiki pages, finding relevant content becomes increasingly difficult. To maximize collaboration, you need the ability to easily discover content across all your projects. Now you can use wiki search to quickly find relevant wiki pages by title or page content across all projects in your... Read More
December 1, 2017
The round-up is back for November! I’m sorry for not posting in October. My wife and I welcomed our second child, a girl, into the world. I was at home spending time with them because they grow up so fast 🙂 But now I’m back, and some really exciting extensions went live in the Marketplace... Read More
November 24, 2017
Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics. TOP STORIES Running Selenium Tests in Docker using VSTS Release Management – Colin DembovskyYou can spin up a Selenium grid (or hub) container and then join as many node containers as you want to (the... Read More
November 22, 2017
We’ve just wrapped up the Microsoft Connect(); conference that took place last week in New York and online, with sessions streamed live from New York and Seattle. The Connect(); conference highlights developer tools like Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) and the rest of the Visual Studio family of products. It’s an event full of news... Read More
November 22, 2017
The Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) Analytics OData feed has been promoted to full public preview, available to everyone. Developers can use OData to access VSTS Analytics to write 3rd party or custom widgets. Or, write any tool or extension that takes advantage of the VSTS Analytics data model. This OData feed is built on... Read More
November 21, 2017
We’re very excited to announce that we’ve added the ability to fork Git repositories hosted in Visual Studio Team Services. If you work on open source projects, then you’re probably already familiar with repository forks. A fork takes a Git repository and creates a duplicate copy of it – on Visual Studio Team Services –... Read More
November 20, 2017
From the day Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) first went live, customers wanted a path to migrate their existing on-premises Team Foundation Server (TFS) data. For a long time, only low-fidelity paths existed – migrating a subset of resources at their “tip” values, using tools to preserve a bit more history, and so forth. Just... Read More