Brian Harry's Blog

Wookiki – A Windows store app for keeping an eye on builds on VS Online

May 30, 2014 May 30, 2014 05/30/14

Brian Harry

Check out Wookiki…  It’s a Windows 8.1 store app for keeping up to date on build statuses on Visual Studio Online – it has push notifications, live tiles and more.  A previous version had been built with the OData solution for TFS that Brian Keller put together a couple of years ago.  Now it’s been ...

Real time collaboration with VS Anywhere

May 28, 2014 May 28, 2014 05/28/14

Brian Harry

The VS Anywhere guys have been continuing to improve their real time developer collaboration capabilities by adding a web experience along side their VS add-in.  They’ve also taken advantage of our new VS Online Open APIs to do so cool VS Online integration.  They’ll be doing a web cast on it in a couple of weeks and I ...

Visual Studio Online Update – May 20th

May 21, 2014 May 21, 2014 05/21/14

Brian Harry

This week we are deploying our sprint 65 work.  You can read the release notes here: http://www.visualstudio.com/news/2014-may-20-vso The really big news is that we’ve completed the next step in the journey to fully supporting Active Directory integration through Azure Active Directory.  You can now create a new VS Online account ...

Useful stuff on the VS Online Open APIs

May 16, 2014 May 16, 2014 05/16/14

Brian Harry

I’m just sharing interesting stuff I run across that relates to the new open apis for VS Online that we announced. Here’s a blog post someone wrote on configuring and using UserVoice with VS Online: http://roadtoalm.com/2014/05/15/integrate-uservoice-with-visual-studio-online-using-servicehooks/ Clemens, one of our MVPs, wrote a ...

Tasktop: Another tool in your toolbox for integrating VSOnline/TFS

May 15, 2014 May 15, 2014 05/15/14

Brian Harry

For many years now Tasktop has been bridging the divide among various systems for tracking work/tasks.  This week they announced some new support for Visual Studio Online along with our new open API announcements. Check out this blog post they wrote on what they can do: http://tasktop.com/blog/news/tasktop-sync-integrates-visual-studio-...

Migrating On Premises TFS to VS Online

May 14, 2014 May 14, 2014 05/14/14

Brian Harry

One of the questions I’ve frequently gotten from customers considering Visual Studio Online is “How do I migrate my on-premises TFS data to VS Online?” Until now that’s been a tough one to answer.  In general you’ve had to cobble together a solution by checking in the latest version of your source code, maybe...

Zendesk integration with VS Online

May 13, 2014 May 13, 2014 05/13/14

Brian Harry

Yesterday, I announced a new set of open APIs for VS Online and a bunch of integrations that have already been built.  One of them was support for Zendesk.  Here’s a very detailed blog post on how to install/configure it: http://www.bfcamara.com/post/85562983333/vso-zendesk-integration Brian...

Application Insights extension for Visual Studio Update – May 12

May 12, 2014 May 12, 2014 05/12/14

Brian Harry

Today we shipped an update (version 1.3) of our plugin for Visual Studio 2013 that makes working with Application Insights from Visual Studio really easy.  Improvements include: If you have any of the Preview releases, you can get the update several ways, including: If you don’t already have the tools, you ...

A new API for Visual Studio Online

May 12, 2014 May 12, 2014 05/12/14

Brian Harry

The “big” news that I announced at TechEd this week was a new API for accessing Visual Studio Online (and, in a future release, Team Foundation Server).  This new API is based on REST, OAUTH, Json and Service Hooks – all standard web technologies broadly supported in the industry.  The API is still currently in preview while we take ...