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As the number of extensions on the Visual Studio Marketplace grew, we felt the need to have a mechanism to provide feedback and easily differentiate extensions. Today we are glad to announce a Rating and Review system on the Marketplace as the first step in fulfilling that need. The rating for an extension will appear on its tile as well as ...

I had earlier blogged about how we use Release Management to run our test automation in the RM team. Since then, the RM service or Release Management Online (RMO) has added support for parallel environments (with the Sprint 94 payload (also called M94)), and we have tweaked our automation pipeline to leverage this feature. We now have all our tes...

As perf. engineers run load tests, they not only want to analyze a load test run, but also obtain a quick overview of the key metrics, identify problem areas to focus on, view diagnostic information to analyze failures, etc. In addition, when their application changes, they want to compare load test runs to understand if the app changes have caused...

Last month we announced the pre-release version of the SDK for SonarQube Roslyn Analyzer Plugins, the purpose of which is to create a SonarQube plugin for a Roslyn analyzer. We are pleased to announce that version 1 of the SDK is now available. We have made a few small but significant changes for the release version: Removed the need for the JD...

A few weeks ago, we announced the SonarQube scanner for MSBuild 2.0 supports 3rd party Roslyn analyzers. This has been working for the continuous integration build. In this blog post we are announcing that we have extended this experience to the IDE. You can now bind a Visual Studio solution to a SonarQube project and see Roslyn analyzers automatic...

Are you the type of developer that loves to keep your repos neat and tidy?  Are you a fan of interactive rebase and fixing up your commits until they're just right?  Do you wish you had an alternative to --no-ff merges when completing your pull request?  In the March 3rd release of Visual Studio Team Services, a new option was added to the PR merge...

Over the last few months, there has been a consistent ask for Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) / Team Foundation Server (TFS) Testing Tools roadmap.  I would like to share our strategic direction, what we have delivered over the last 6 months and where we are headed.  It would be great to get your feedback on what we are doing right and where we ...

I seem to get these three questions about Manual Testing on a regular basis and thought i would share the answers:  1. How to get the column/row data populated in the test chart dialog? (In a Visual Studio Team Services Project: Menus are: Test>Test Plan>Charts> New Chart> New Test Case Chart) 2. How to see Iterations in a Manual T...

The C# extension for Visual Studio Code offers powerful editing and debugging support for .NET Core applications on Windows, Mac, and Linux, including: Getting started To get started you will need to do a few things (see our GitHub page for complete instructions) Working with Console apps If you are working with a console application, b...

Microsoft is making available its plugin for Eclipse, Team Explorer Everywhere (TEE), for both Visual Studio Team Services and Team Foundation Server (TFS) as open source software on GitHub. The announcement was made today by Shanku Niyogi, General Manager Developer Division, during the keynote at EclipseCon in Reston, Virginia, when he also announ...