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Each month, we will bring you the insiders view into Visual Studio Team Services - how the product is developed, how we dogfood it and use it every day, who are the people behind it and tips and tricks on becoming a power user This month, we interview Patrick Desjardins, a software developer on the team that develops the Agile tooling at the Micro...

We have released the first preview of Team Foundation Server "15", our next major version of TFS.  This preview is not go-live, which means it is not licensed to be installed on production systems.  Upgrading from this version to future versions will be blocked and unsupported. We would love for you to try out this preview.  You can find informati...

[Nov 2016: Added a status Update with links on details for what was done]   Back in January, I shared with you our SonarQube integration Update and plans for the first half of 2016. I’ve just updated that blog post to ensure that all the links were added to the individual blog posts for the features we have delivered over these last 6 months...

There is something to be said about having a good tool box - after all picking the right tool for a job is also as much about picking the right job for a tool, and the bigger your toolbox, the better the chances are that the best tool you can muster will be the one appropriate for the job at hand. To get the most productivity improvements from usi...

A new Code Coverage tab has been enabled on the Build summary page. Users uploading Code Coverage data in Jacoco or Cobertura formats to Visual Studio Team Services will be able to browse the html report generated by the tool in the Code Coverage tab. Users of Visual Studio Code Coverage solution can continue to download the report and get rich vis...

Team Foundation Server 2015 Update 3 is now available.  You can find information on the new features and bugs that were fixed in the release notes and a few known issues in our known issues document.  You can find the downloads at our main download page. You can find information about the other Visual Studio products on thei...

Team Services sprint 101 introduces a new build task, Extract Files.  Use it to easily extract archives during your Team Foundation Server (TFS) build process.  The Extract Files task is cross platform and uses native unzip, tar, and 7-Zip on Mac and Linux.  For Windows, we bundled 7-Zip with the task so you can extract anything supported by 7-Zip,...

Today, we are inviting Edith Harbaugh from LaunchDarkly as a guest writer for the ALM Blog to talk a little bit about the different patterns of Feature Flag implementations which has been a common topic I get asked about from many of you.  If you didn't see it, Edith joined us on stage at Build 2016 earlier this year to launch a new marketplace ext...

With Sprint 102 deployment on Visual Studio Team Services, we have enabled tests from within an assembly to be distributed to remote machines using the Run Functional Tests task (formerly called Run Tests using Test Agent). This has been one of the bigger asks from customers around Remote testing. You will see a new check box in the task as below. ...

A couple of weeks ago, we announced the general availability of Azure DevTest Labs. As part of the announcement we introduced the preview of Azure DevTest Labs – VSTS extension. Today, we are delighted to announce the general availability (GA) of the extension.                 Figure 1: Azure DevTe...