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As far back as 2012, Visual Studio Team Services and Team Foundation Server users have been asking for a Symbol Server. Symbols are crucial to debugging Windows applications, esp. applications written in native languages like C and C++, because they map from the built binary back to the source code: the classes and functions needed to step through ...

The ability to store your CI build in source control has been a long running request for VSTS and TFS garnering more than 650 votes on user voice.  Having your CI defined alongside your application source gives you the ability to evolve your CI as your code evolves and to apply source centric workflows like pull requests and code reviews to your CI...

It's been a few months since we last talked about GVFS, the technology that allows Git to support Enterprise-scale Git repositories. And it's been a busy few months.  Not only have we been working on a ton of performance improvements, we've also been getting it ready for a wider audience so that we can bring modern version control and DevOps practi...

Unfortunately, I had to cut out of DevOps Enterprise Summit early. It’s great to see how DOES has doubled every year, and how the conversations are changing from “Why DevOps?” to “How do we adopt DevOps faster, at larger scale, and through a bigger org?” In this spirit, I updated DevOps at Microsoft last week with eighteen videos and ten articles....

There is a lot of excitement and energy around DevOps at this year’s Connect(); event in New York City.  Please join the live stream starting tomorrow at 10:00 AM EST for Scott Guthrie’s keynote, where he will showcase lots of new innovations across Azure, .NET, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) and more. At 3:00 PM EST, I am going...

Being able to run tests efficiently in a CI/CD pipeline is crucial to get a fast indication of build quality in order to quickly deliver customer value. For this, VSTest supports running automated tests in a distributed manner using multiple agents. In this post, we will discuss the various options available in the VSTest task to distribute tests a...

Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) and its on-prem version TFS has an extensibility framework that lets 3rd party developers write and publish their own extensions. A VSTS extension is just a set of contributions where each contribution can contribute to certain contribution points provided by VSTS like hubs, pivots, menu items, work item forms, an...

Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics.  TOP STORIES RADIO VIDEOS TIP: If you want to get your VSTS news in audio form then be sure to subscribe to RadioTFS .  FEEDBACK What do you think? How could we do this series better? Here are some ways to co...

In 2014, we set a goal to make Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) a global service. This is driven by our commitment to provide our customers around the world great performance and compliance with local data sovereignty requirements. Between 2014 and 2016 we announced VSTS instances in Europe, Australia, India, and Brazil. Two months ago we announc...

Monitoring on-premises Team Foundation Server deployments is an important part of keeping them running smoothly, especially for large enterprise deployments. Good monitoring can help administrators avoid issues before they impact end users, as well as react quickly when user impacts do occur. TFS has shipped management packs for System Center Oper...