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We launched search on Visual Studio Marketplace for Visual Studio Team Services and Visual Studio Code last month. But at the time we were still redirecting to Visual Studio Gallery when searching in the Visual Studio product context. Today we are glad to announce that search is now available for the Visual Studio product context as well. You can ...

If you're a developer working on a team that uses Git, you're probably using some form of topic branching to isolate your work.  If you're using any of the Agile tools in Visual Studio Team Services, you probably also have a bug, task, or user story that's tracking your development work.  Until recently, the best way to keep these items related was...

Sometime ago, we announced that the cloud-based load testing service in Visual Studio Team Services could be used to run Apache JMeter based load tests. We are happy to let you know that this feature is now publicly available and you can try it out using your Team Services account. This is a quick how-to to help you get started. Essentials: How t...

The Visual Studio Team Services plugin for IntelliJ and Android Studio now has support for pull requests! This feature is part of a series of essential developer workflows our Java teams are planning to enable in IntelliJ (and IDEs based on it like Android Studio, PhpStorm, WebStorm etc.). This post has more details on some of our plans. In the f...

We are pleased to announce that SonarSource has officially released version 2.0 of the SonarQube Scanner for MSBuild and version 4.5 of the SonarQube C# Plugin. The release notes for the scanner and plugin list the bugs that were fixed, but the major change is that together these releases provide support for using third-party Roslyn analyzers with ...

We are rolling out a number of orchestration improvements in Release management service. These improvements are explained in the release notes here and here. One of the key features in this release is that you will be able to author more complex release definitions, where the deployments can happen to multiple environments in parallel. You do not h...

You can add the DebuggerNonUserCode attribute to your application as a handy way to tell the debugger that you don’t want to debug into specific sections of code. If you haven’t used this attribute previously, this blog post gives a summary of how you can use it as part of your debugging workflow. If you currently use this attribute, you may hav...

Shortcuts have been in Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) and Team Foundation Server (TFS) for a long time, but not many keyboard shortcuts were available and it was not discoverable. Since a few deployments we have introduced more shortcuts using the MouseTrap open source library. You can now type in keys whenever you are not focused on an inputbo...

Note: a more recent documentation is available from Analyzing with SonarQube Extension for VSTS/TFS In Visual Studio Team Services and Team Foundation Server you can cause a build to fail if the code does not meet the conditions imposed by a SonarQube quality gate. This post describes how to configure this when using SonarQube 5.3 and earlier, and...

One of the top questions we get from developers building extensions for Visual Studio Team Services is "Are people using my extension"? The Visual Studio Marketplace (launched in November and currently in preview) shows the number of Team Services accounts an extension is installed to, but not the number of people actually using it or how these peo...