June 13, 2017
At its core, TIA collects, and subsequently consults, a map of the dynamic dependencies of each test method as it is executing. As the test method is executing it will cover various methods – the source file in which those methods reside are the dynamic dependencies that get tracked. So, the mapping ends up like the following:... Read More
June 9, 2017
In this blog post I will show you how to setup continuous delivery of a dockerized app by using Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) to a Kubernetes cluster running in ACS. Azure Container Service (ACS) allows to deploy and manage containers using Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, Mesosphere DC/OS orchestrators. You can now deploy these three orchestrators on... Read More
June 6, 2017
We are very excited to announce the general availability of the mobile work item form and the mobile My work items page in Visual Studio Team Services. We now have a full end-to-end experience to find work items that matter to you, and view and edit them using a form optimized for mobile devices. Mobile... Read More
June 6, 2017
If you are interested in Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) platform and Java development, maybe you know that VSTS has everything you need to organize CI/CD pipeline for your Java application development. Visual Studio ALM Blog has a lot of useful and helpful resources describing how to build and deploy your Java application and... Read More
May 31, 2017
May is coming to a close, and we’ve had more Team Services accounts installing extensions than any month since we launched the Marketplace. The ecosystem momentum we’ve seen this year is strong, and there are still so many exciting integration opportunities out there to go enable. For this roundup I’ve got two great extensions, and... Read More
May 30, 2017
Over the last few years, Microsoft has been moving the entire company to a modern engineering system built on Visual Studio Team Services and using Git as our version control system. For many of the projects within Microsoft, this is no problem, since: the Git homepage tell us: Git was built to work on the Linux... Read More
May 27, 2017
Note: If you do not see the preview feature on your account, kindly leave a comment to this blog with your team services account name. There are multiple stakeholders for a release. Whether the team is small or large, keeping the right stakeholders informed about how releases are progressing and what actions are required. Notifications,... Read More
May 26, 2017
Have you ever struggled to create a mental model of how the deployments to your environments would progress? We are introducing the pipeline view for your release definitions that will show how your deployments flow. Approvals, environment and deployment settings are now in-context and easily configurable. The new release definition editor is currently in early adopter... Read More
May 25, 2017
Discovering relevant work items should consume as little time and effort as possible. That’s why we have built work item search with speed and simplicity in mind, so you can spend more of your time on your work and less time searching for work items. Say hello to Work item search, now available by default... Read More
May 22, 2017
A little over a year ago we released the new work item form to Visual Studio Team Services and now with TFS 2017 the same great functionality is available to our on-premises customers. Here are some highlights of the new features available today: Integrated development control to track existing code assets and to create new... Read More