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Mar 4, 2015
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Initiate a Load Test from Hosted Build work-around

Willy-P. Schaub

  Please note there are now much easier ways of doing this.  Please see: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudioalm/archive/2015/11/23/scheduling-load-test-execution.aspx                                                         We are gathered this week in a “Hackfest”, defined as a time constrained, joint coding effort t...

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Feb 16, 2015
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Release Management Service Futures

Vijay Machiraju

In November 2014, at Connect(), we unveiled the Release Management Service in Visual Studio Online. We have received a good amount of feedback since, and here, I will share some of the big ticket items that we are working on currently. These will go live in the next quarter or two.Web interface for release managementYes, we are working on a web int...

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Feb 12, 2015
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Announcing Limited Preview for Visual Studio Online Code Search

Biju Venugopal MS

Today we are unveiling a limited preview of our new Code Search feature on Visual Studio Online.  Code Search enables you to quickly and easily search across your entire account and find matches using your web browser.  Not only can you perform full text matching but for some languages, like C#,  C and C++, and additional ones in the...

DevOpsCI/CDGit & Version Control
Feb 12, 2015
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Build Futures

Chris Patterson (MSFT)

At the Connect() developer event in November 2014 we showed a sneak peek at the investments we are making for our build automation features in TFS and Visual Studio Online. These new capabilities will be available in TFS 2015 and in Visual Studio Online starting in Q2 of 2015. TFS had build automation starting with its first release in 2006 and ga...

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Feb 9, 2015
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Deploying Azure Cloud Service using Release Management

Roopesh Nair

 Summary You have downloaded the Release Management for Visual Studio client, and are connected to either your Visual Studio Online account. You have an Azure Cloud Service project and want to use Release Management to update the same using the latest drop from a TFS buildIn the current state, you will have to write Powershell scripts on your...

DevOpsAzure & CloudCI/CD
Dec 22, 2014
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IntelliTrace Standalone Collector and Application Pools running under Active Directory accounts

Angelos Petropoulos

You will often configure an ASP.NET web site to run as an Active Directory (AD) user so that the site can access that user’s network resources (e.g. a file share). This is accomplished by changing the identity of the IIS Application Pool the web site runs under.If you try to use the IntelliTrace Standalone Collector with such an application p...

DevOpsCI/CDGit & Version Control
Dec 16, 2014
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Custom TraceSource and debugging using IntelliTrace

Angelos Petropoulos

IntelliTrace in Visual Studio Enterprise comes with support for tracing out of the box. All you have to do is make sure the appropriate IntelliTrace events are enabled in VS settings and IntelliTrace will capture trace statements as events. When you are not using the default Debug.Trace methods and are instead using a custom TraceSource, you don...

DevOpsCI/CDGit & Version Control
Dec 11, 2014
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Smart Unit Tests – a mental model

Pratap Lakshman

[Editor’s note: "Smart Unit Tests" has been renamed to “IntelliTest” with effect from Visual Studio 2015 Release Candidate (RC).] Our previous post introduced Smart Unit Tests. Please read that first if you have not already done so. Now let us continue. How is “Smart Unit Tests” able to generate a compact test suite with high coverage? How does i...

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Nov 19, 2014
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Introducing Smart Unit Tests

Pratap Lakshman

[Editor’s note: "Smart Unit Tests" has been renamed to “IntelliTest” with effect from Visual Studio 2015 Release Candidate (RC).] If you have not already seen the brief video on the Smart Unit Tests feature, I urge you to do so; this feature can help you overcome any inertia in getting started writing unit tests. But there is much more to it than ...

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Nov 17, 2014
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DevOps style deployment in Visual Studio 2015 preview – Sharing deployment configuration with team

Muthukumaran [MSFT]

  While the earlier blog on DevOps style deployment capability touched upon the scenarios for an individual developer, in this blog let’s look at how this experience can be extended to team. You would also want to refer Announcing DevOps style deployments using Visual Studio 2015 Preview and Azure and Brian Keller’s Channel9 Video first. A new “E...

DevOpsAzure & CloudCI/CD