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If you have a project you've been working on, but haven’t yet had a chance to put it in source control, then spend a few minutes of your leap day this year and host it for free in Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS).  VSTS is a great place to host all of your projects for free, and creating a repo to host your code is easier than ever.  Let's take a...

(Editors Note:  One of the most popular series of blog posts on the ALM Blog was Terje’s posts on Unit Testing.  So when he asked to republish his Norwegian post on the ALM blog the answer was of course an enthusiastic YES!.  A little off topic this post also highlights we need a post on executing parallel test runs with the new “Run Functional Tes...

Ever since we launched the preview of Visual Studio Marketplace in November, the response from all of you in the community has been tremendous. With more and more extensions being added each day, the requests for one particular feature kept growing, Search. Today we are glad to announce that we are enabling search for Visual Studio Marketplace. Yo...

Join the Java Tools Challenge and Help Make Java Great with Visual Studio Team Services - submit a winning entry and you or your team will walk away with valuable prizes (cash, hardware and software). The 2016 Java Tools Challenge officially opened on Feb 1st and runs through Apr 30th. Are you up for the challenge? There are two ways you can parti...

Visual Studio Team Services (formerly Visual Studio Online) and Team Foundation Services 2015 supports a cross-platform build system that allows you to easily configure builds that run on Windows, Linux, and even OSX. Visual Studio Team Services comes with a cloud hosted build agent that runs on Windows and iOS apps can be built either by integrati...

Update: A new blog post with a full fledged UI to support the below scenario can be found here - Performance testing with App Service Continuous Deployment Back in September, we introduced a capability of Performance/Load testing with App Service Plan.  You can measure the number of users your app can take before going into the production. ...

Leveraging Donovan’s great DevOps series on building his Ignite Demo here is a walk through for using Selenium with Visual Studio Team Services and the PartsUnlimited sample found at: https://github.com/Microsoft/PartsUnlimited   Getting Started with Selenium in a Continuous Integration Pipeline Performing user interface testing as part of the b...

In Visual Studio 2015 Update 1, we enhanced the Git experience based on your feedback. As I mentioned in the most recent Git Futures post, there's a lot more on the way. Branches No matter what you're doing in VS, you usually want to know what repo you're in, the current branch, and have an easy way to switch branches. Now, all of that is in the ...

In Visual Studio 2015 we are piloting a recurring and cumulative servicing update that provides fixes to high-impact bugs between our regular updates. In the second servicing update recently made available, we fixed an issue in Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 that can cause Visual Studio to crash sometime after editing C# or Visual Basic files while...

This blog assumes that you have a prior understand of functional testing with Coded UI Test on Windows Store. If not, please go through the introduction blog for Windows Store Apps. Here I would cover troubleshooting issues with the XamlWindow.Launch() API that has been explained in detail here. To summarize from the later blog the user would get t...