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We are delighted to announce the General Availability of CodeLens in Visual Studio Online. With this announcement, we have reached a significant milestone in the journey we started as a Limited CTP in Nov 2014 and then moved to Public Preview in Dec 2014. CodeLens in Visual Studio Online was one of the top UserVoice asks and we prioritized this wor...

When you perform Layer Validation using the tools available from the Architecture menu in Enterprise versions of Visual Studio 2012 and 2013, especially when Layer Validation is part of a Build process, you may find excessive growth of the user's temporary folder due to caching of binary assemblies. This issue does not affect final release versions...

When you validate your application architecture in Visual Studio using the modeling tools available from the Architecture menu in Enterprise versions of Visual Studio 2012 and 2013, you may see an error message that the primary reference could not be resolved, and the validation will not proceed. This issue does not affect Visual Studio 2015. Prob...

You’ve always been able to see some performance counters in Metric Explorer: Process CPU, Available Memory, and so on. Windows has lots of other performance counters, and you may also have defined your own custom counters. And now with the latest Application Insights SDK for web apps you can collect any performance counters you choose – both from t...

Recently there was a bug caused in our system due to which customers will not be able to see the relevant data in the Excel reports for their runs done during the following period. This will affect only the excel report generation of the run.   Incident start time – 03-19-2015 11:00:00 Incident end time –  04-01-2015 2...

Cloud-based Load Testing with Visual Studio Online now supports  up to 100 cores for a single load test run. Until now in Cloud-based Load Testing, you could use up to 20 cores (10 agents) in a single load test run. With the support for 100 cores, you should be able to generate 5 times the concurrent users than before. For example, , in a typical ...

After my last post on upcoming ALM Webinars i received a bunch of emails about other great ALM and DevOps events…So i spent some time putting them in chronological order. Hope this helps next time you are considering re-watching an old series on Netflix or increasing your knowledge about emerging trends in the DevOps space. ALM Webinars ...

The warm weather in Seattle has definitely seems to have had an effect on everything!  My feature team (Load Test) is ahead of schedule, the flower gardens are in full bloom and and the folks at Northwest Cadence seem to be ON FIRE with over 20 ALM and DevOps events for people to attend. With Dan, Rennie and Steve (one of the all time best Tec...

Good friend, noted author and fellow car fanatic is offering a webinar on Scrum development.See you there! Pro Scrum Development: A Conversation with Richard Hundhausen In this new webinar from Microsoft we will introduce you to the guy who literally wrote the book on Professional Scrum Development, Richard Hundhausen.  In this webin...

UPDATED: Mar 13, 2015 We found the problem here and confirmed that it was isolated to just a few accounts, and for a short period of time.  If you run into this issue, the steps below should correct it.  Don't hesitate to reach out if you have any questions.  ----------------------- We're rolling out an update to Visual Studio Online that gi...