Azure DevOps Blog

Process Template changes to TFS 2015 RTM

October 8, 2015 Oct 8, 2015 10/8/15

Ewald Hofman (MSFT)

With the release of TFS 2015, we have also updated the process templates. All of these changes were done to: Many of you have requested a list of the improvements that we have made to the process templates, so here we go.Template changes Workflow changes Field changes...

How we use User Voice to make a better product

October 8, 2015 Oct 8, 2015 10/8/15

Ewald Hofman (MSFT)

The Maven build task now simplifies SonarQube analysis

October 8, 2015 Oct 8, 2015 10/8/15

Jean-Marc Prieur

Last month we released the MSBuild tasks for SonarQube analysis, which make it easy to analyze a .NET project. Today we are pleased to announce an updated Maven task that makes it easy for Java developers using Maven to trigger a SonarQube analysis in Visual Studio Online (VSO), and - when Update 1 is available soon - in Team Foundation Server...

Test result data retention with Team Foundation Server 2015

October 8, 2015 Oct 8, 2015 10/8/15

Manoj Bableshwar

Test execution, especially in the automated testing workflow, generates considerable amount of data. To keep your test system performant and responsive, its recommended to periodically clean up test results that are no longer relevant. Below are sources from which test results are generated in TFS, and the current features (as of TFS 2015 RTM ...

Automating Azure Resource Group deployment using a Service Principal in Visual Studio Online: Build/Release Management

October 4, 2015 Oct 4, 2015 10/4/15

Vijay Machiraju

Connect your Azure subscriptions to VSTS in 3 clicks New improved user experience to setup Azure Resource Manager based service connection in VSTS. Follow the post below to configure Visual Studio Team Services to communicate with Azure in order to provision or deploy Azure Resource Manager resources such as virtual machines (image...

Announcing Visual Studio Debug Engine Extensibility Samples

October 2, 2015 Oct 2, 2015 10/2/15

Patrick Nelson - MSFT

In Visual Studio 2012, the we introduced a new debug engine code-named “Concord”. In Visual Studio 2012, Concord was used only for native debugging. Starting with Visual Studio 2013, Concord is used for managed debugging as well.Concord is designed to be a collection of many components working together to form the debug engine...

Application Insights retiring on VSO Portal & blogging on Azure Blogs

October 1, 2015 Oct 1, 2015 10/1/15

Rahul Bagaria (MSFT)

If you’re still using the older version of Application Insights in the Visual Studio Online portal, you’ll have to update your application to use the new version hosted in the Azure Preview portal by October 15.We announced in an August blog post on Azure Blogs that Application Insights has transitioned from the Visual Studio ...

Announcing Git-LFS on all VSO Git repos

October 1, 2015 Oct 1, 2015 10/1/15

Saeed Noursalehi

All Visual Studio Online Git repos now support Git-LFS, with unlimited free storage! Git-LFS is an extension to Git that replaces large files in your repo with placeholder files, and stores the contents of those large files in a separate store on the server.  This allows you to add binary files to a repo without creating a lot of ...

Quickstart: Analyzing .NET projects with SonarQube, MSBuild or Visual Studio Online, and third-party analyzers (StyleCop, ReSharper)

September 28, 2015 Sep 28, 2015 09/28/15

Jean-Marc Prieur

This post provides a quick-start guide to using SonarQube to analyze .NET managed code. It covers installing SonarQube locally, running your first analysis using MSBuild, and using some popular third-party analyzers. It also describes how to use the new Visual Studio Online (VSO) and Team Foundation Server (TFS) Build tasks to perform analysis...

Network simulation and more in the VS Emulator for Android

September 25, 2015 Sep 25, 2015 09/25/15

John Kemnetz

By now, hopefully you’ve heard about the new Visual Studio Emulator for Android, which is available as a standalone download for Eclipse and Android Studio users. Today, we’re issuing an update that addresses some of your top requests, including network simulation and improved screenshot functionality. Let’s take a look at what you can ...