Ranger Jan-Feb 2016 Flash – Welcome new guidance and widgets!

Sorry for the delay of the January flash, but we were counting down while waiting for the countdown widget!

highlights

• Show area path dependencies extension allows you to display area path dependencies.
• Print cards v2 extension introduces QR Codes.
• First of a new series of version control articles were published on visualstudio.com: Map TFVC actions to Git and Move Git repos between team projects.
• Migrate assets from RM server to Visual Studio Team Services team released the 20160118.1 v0.5 RC
• Extension teams start a new series on widgets and release the Countdown Widget v1.0.5.
• Hotfix v1.2 released for the Test Case Explorer extension.

community news

• The Ranger champions, nominated by their peers and communities, were announced for impact over the past 12 months.
• Michel Perfetti and Mikael Krief presented sessions at Microsoft France for Event "Agile testing day".
  
• New VSOSprints playlist for Sprint 93 and 94 bit.ly/sprint9394 .
  
• Richard Fennell published how to extend a VSTS release process to on-premises in content by devs, for devs.
• Mathias Olausson and Jakob Ehn published Continuous Delivery with Visual Studio ALM 2015 .
  
• Tarun Arora published Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2015 Cookbook .
  
• Welcome to our latest community members Sohail Tahir, Ed Elliott, and Kevin Mack.
• A huge thank you to Pramod Vasanth and Christian Nielsen who are taking a timeout and joining our group of honorary Rangers.
• Join us at DevConf on March 8th in sunny South-Africa!
  

interesting reads

• RadioTFS - What an honor!
• VSTS Extension Project Templates - Version 2.1.1
• Team Foundation Server 2015 Update 2 RC 1 is available
• VSTS Extensions – Getting the latest pull request on a file
• Now THAT was an Update
• Getting Started with Selenium Testing in a Continuous Integration Pipeline with Visual Studio
• Post VSTS Release to Slack
• TFS Aggregator 2 with Jesse Houwing
• Dashboards Futures (January 2016)
• Java Experience Futures (January 2016)
• VSTS New work item form futures (January 2016)
• Git Experience Futures (January 2016)

And for our French speaking colleagues:

• [Partie 1] Présentation des extensions pour VSTS
• [Partie 2] Création d’une extension pour VSTS
• [Partie 3] Publication d’une extension pour VSTS

our world in pictures

Do you recognize anyone on these pictures from a recent event?