Ranger November 2015 Flash – Surfacing after two really busy (behind the scenes) months

You can find the latest flight plan snapshot at aka.ms/vsarFlightPlan    

news

• Videos
  • Monthly Catch-up: MVP Rangers with Brian Harry (Channel 9)
  • Demo: VS Team Services - Work Item Visualization Extension
  • Demo: VS Team Services - State Model Visualization Extension
• Shipped!
  • 11x Visual Studio Team Services Extensions from the Rangers
  • Breakpoint Generator Extension
• Preview!
  • Moving from the earlier version of Release management service to the new one in Visual Studio Team Services mentions the early preview for Migrate-assets-from-RM-server-to-VSTS .

images from the MVP global summit

new community widgets aka.ms/widgets

• AppVeyor Extension for Visual Studio, by Utkarsh Shigihalli and Tarun Arora.
• Scrum Report, by Mikael Krief & Vlatko Ivanovski
• Enhanced Export, by Mattias Sköld
• Requirements Integrator, by Josh Garverick
• State Model Visualization and , by Taavi Koosaar
• Team Rooms Summary and Welcome Email, by Niel Zeeman
• Toggl Button, by Gerson Dias

more community activity gems worth noticing

The ALM Rangers often engage and deliver value to the ALM community behind the scenes. Here are some of the many nuggets:

• Hassan Fadili will be in Morocco for a community event on Saturday Dec 5th for MSP's, IT Professionals and MS Dev Communities to share the new stuff of VS, VSTS, Azure, Mobile Dev....etc and for some meetings on Friday with MS Morocco folks to discuss how to collaborate the best way to help them from my Dev and Consultancy Expertises for a better adoption of MS Technologies in Moroccan Market and better Customers support. The event is online on Facebook.
• Niel Zeeman delivered Byte sized session one of his many initiatives to actively engage with the developer community in South-Africa.
• Ricardo Serradas and Vinicius Moura continue with their invaluable VSO Sprint sessions: Sprint 90 - Dashboards, improved pull requests, test results and more.
• Oscar Garcia Colon continues to share exciting examples of achievements by students from Guatemala: Powershell, System Cente, Azure and DSC, TFS on iOS (Native), and Glimpse Open Source Addition.

interesting reads

• general
  • VSTS Extensions - Requirements Integrator
  • Docker DevOps
  • Continuous Delivery with Visual Studio ALM 2015 Book Released!
  • A 'Hello World' for VSTS Extensions
  • News from Connect(); 2015
  • DevOps PHP Sample for Cory Fowler and his PHPWorld Presentation
  • Scheduling Load Tests
  • Team Foundation Server 2015 Management Pack is available
  • The Channel 9 Studio Takeover
  • Performance Tests for Azure Web Apps
• team blog (aka.ms.vsarblog)
  • The “Circle of love” at Universidad Rafael Landívar
  • Automated testing implemented at Universidad Rafael Landívar

tell us about your success stories!

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   Stats as at 1 November 2015: Notice that we have achieved an important milestone, exceeding one million downloads.

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Josh Garverick shipped our 4th extension … Requirements Integrator. … no explanation required