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Git Credential Manager for Mac and Linux

November 18, 2015 Nov 18, 2015 11/18/15
Oli Dagenais (MSFT)
Are you tired of typing in a user name and password every time you fetch from or push to remote Git repositories? Me too! We have good news! Today we are announcing the open-source release of the Git Credential Manager (GCM) for Mac and Linux.  This follows the release of the GCM for Windows.  We ported this tool to Mac and Linux to simplify...

Announcing Public Preview of Visual Studio Marketplace

November 18, 2015 Nov 18, 2015 11/18/15
Charles Sterling
We’re excited to announce the Public Preview of the new Visual Studio Marketplace – the one place to discover and acquire extensions, integrations and subscriptions for the Visual Studio family of products. Now publishers can directly host their extensions on the Visual Studio Marketplace and engineering teams can use these extensions to ...

Subversion integration with Visual Studio Team Services

November 18, 2015 Nov 18, 2015 11/18/15
Jeff Young (TFS)
While all of the recent talk in the Java world about version control systems centers on Git, Subversion is still very much in use across the industry.  Today we are announcing that Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio Team Services provides Team Build support for Subversion.  With the release of Team Foundation Server 2015 Update...

Test Results in Build

November 18, 2015 Nov 18, 2015 11/18/15
Anand Kamat
  Back in June 2015, we introduced the 'Runs' under Test hub as a part of the Automated Testing Workflow with the new TFS Build system. Runs hub was designed to be a repository for all test results generated in the system, helping you browse test results from various workflows such as Build, Release Management, Manual testing, and results ...

Announcing easy to use browser-based exploratory testing for Visual Studio Team Services

November 18, 2015 Nov 18, 2015 11/18/15
Charles Sterling
Today’s faster application cycle times beg test tools that are easier to use and that are always available in the environment you are working in -and the Microsoft Exploratory Testing delivers this.  The new Exploratory Testing extension makes it easy for you document your exploratory test, capture and annotate screen shots of these tests, ...

Announcing Public Preview for Visual Studio Team Services Code Search

November 18, 2015 Nov 18, 2015 11/18/15
Biju Venugopal MS
Today, we are excited to announce the public preview of Code Search in Visual Studio Team Services.  With this release you can search for code across TFVC and Git projects in your Visual Studio Team Services account. Not only can you perform full text matching, but for C#, C and C++, it understands the structure of your code and allows you ...

Getting Started with DevTest Labs for Azure

November 18, 2015 Nov 18, 2015 11/18/15
Charles Sterling
  The new DevTest Labs solves a ton of challenges for DevOps teams wanting to build, deploy and test builds on a regular basis. DevTest Labs makes it easier to create test environments with reusable templates with everything your team needs to start developing and testing applications. In few clicks, you can create the environments where the...

Announcing the new Release Management service in Visual Studio Team Services

November 18, 2015 Nov 18, 2015 11/18/15
Vijay Machiraju
Today at Connect(), we announced the public preview of the new Release Management service in VSTS. This service helps you automate deployment of your application software to multiple environments all the way to production. You can deploy applications to your on-premises servers or to Azure and other cloud platforms. Using Release Management, ...

MacinCloud Visual Studio Team Services Build and Improvements to iOS Build Support

November 18, 2015 Nov 18, 2015 11/18/15
Chris Patterson (MSFT)
Visual Studio Team Services (formerly Visual Studio Online) and Team Foundation Services 2015 supports a cross-platform build system that allows you to quickly and easily configure builds that run on Windows, Linux, and even OSX. All Visual Studio Team Services accounts come with a free Windows based hosted build agent but Xcode / iOS builds ...

Support for Active Directory and Single Sign On (SSO) in the SonarQube LDAP Plugin

November 13, 2015 Nov 13, 2015 11/13/15
Harysh Menon
At Microsoft we have been working closely with SonarSource to improve the developer experience when using SonarQube server. An example is the new version (1.5) of the SonarQube LDAP Plugin. This version was developed in close collaboration with SonarSource, with the aim of improving the plugins integration when working with Active Directory. ...