Application Insights is a set of services that integrates production monitoring data with development tools. In many of the demos you will see us opening the solution and code file directly from the production data. For instance in the screenshot below I can click on those blue dots it will take me directly to the specific changeset used to create ...

 One of the ALM MVPs  Anthony Borton (TFS Instructor) has created an entire set of courses around Visual Studio 2013…and one of the nicest things about his courses you can attend either virtually or in person!Here is more information about these courses: *********************************************************** The Release Candid...

The ALM Rangers are pleased to announce the landing of the second release of the ALM Readiness Treasure Map Windows Store App, which was certified and released on August 1st and is now featured in the Windows Store.  It provides a master catalogue (treasure map) of the available ALM Readiness content to guide you through the process of becom...

This issue can occur if the guest OS is Windows 2012 R2 Preview.   Workaround: Install Agents for the Lab Environment once. It should fix the problem.  Cause: When the test agent is installed and configured, by default it enables firewall exception for tcp port 6910 in privateand current profiles. If the guest OS is Windows 2012 R2...

As announced with Visual Studio 2013 launch, cloud based load testing with Visual studio Online is in Commercial Preview. This is open to all Visual Studio Online users. You can read more about it here.Getting Started links  Usage limits and Early Adoption ProgramAll users of Team Foundation Service will be able to run load tests on the c...

Had a question come up today on one of the distribution lists:   Why does the Data and Diagnostics adapter reference Visual Studio 2010 even in Visual Studio 2013?   Turns out this dialogue is trying to convey that this is the old way or the “Visual Studio 2010” way of static code coverage where users need to configure indiv...

The Unit Testing series by one of the ALM MVPs Terje Sandstrom has been some of the highest read posts on the ALM blog…In this post he shows how to easily provide unit Test Adapters from NuGet. Thanks for the Great Post Terje!   ********************************************************** This is the 3rd post in a series on Unit Testing in ...

As part of the MTM enhancements in the  Visual Studio Update 2, we introduced a feature to customize the test result analysis fields like 'Resolution' and 'Failure type'. Different projects may have different reporting needs and this feature lets you do just that. You can customize the values that appear in these fields based on your project r...

You may have noticed some updates to the blog today. We’ve made a few changes to better accommodate how readers are using the blog. Over the past year, we’ve seen a lot of growth in the ALM team blog, both in terms of readership as well as the volume of content being posted. While we’re happy to have this increase in information b...

Earlier this month Anthony Borton, Lead ALM Consultant at Enhance ALM, and Steven Borg, Co-founder and Strategist at Northwest Cadence, delivered a very successful Jumpstart for Microsoft Virtual Academy. This FREE day-long online session helped prepare attendees prepare for exam 70-498:  Delivering Continuous Value with Visual Studio 2012 App...