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In VSO, the Kanban board is your control room. Like traditional switchboards and status indicators, the board empowers teams with mission critical information: which work items are in progress, where the bottlenecks are, who the work is assigned to, and so on. There’s a certain calm to knowing all of this... and we get it. As consumers of our ow...

Since Team Foundation Server 2010, TFS has supported extending its functionality using server-side plugins. These plugins are written against the server object model, and in particular the Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Framework.Server.ISubscriber interface. Team Foundation Server 2015 Update 1 includes a breaking change in that interface, meaning that ...

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 T...

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 (TFS...

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 or pr...

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   Now,...

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. Thi...

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 Online por...

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 bloat in...