Brian Harry's Blog

New Azure Portal Overview

April 14, 2014 Apr 14, 2014 04/14/14

Brian Harry

Brian Keller did a very nice blog post on how you can use the new Azure portal to create a super cool devops dashboard: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/briankel/archive/2014/04/10/building-your-dream-devops-dashboard-with-the-new-azure-preview-portal.aspxBrian...

Visual Studio Online Integration in the Azure portal

April 3, 2014 Apr 3, 2014 04/3/14

Brian Harry

Today, at Build, we unveiled a new Azure Portal experience we are building.  I want to give you some insights into the work that VS Online team is doing to help with it.  I’m not on the Azure team and am no expert on how they’d like to describe to the world, so please take any comments I make here about the new Azure portal as my ...

Visual Studio Online “General Availability”

April 3, 2014 Apr 3, 2014 04/3/14

Brian Harry

Today is a monumental day for VS Online.  It’s the culmination of a long journey from a glimmer of an idea to prototype, private preview, limited preview, public preview, “go-live” and now, finally General Availability.  VS Online is ready and open for business. I’ve written a fair amount about the transition ...

Visual Studio Online Update – Feb 28

February 28, 2014 Feb 28, 2014 02/28/14

Brian Harry

Today we finished the deployment for sprint 61.  You can read the service news to see what’s new.  A lot more new code was deployed than is apparent.  We’re gearing up for some big announcements in April and May – expect to hear more in that timeframe. Overall this deployment went reasonably well.  Much better than the issues we ...

VS Online early adopter program extended to May 7, 2014

February 21, 2014 Feb 21, 2014 02/21/14

Brian Harry

***UPDATED*** June 2014 - The early adopter program ended in may and the data export capability described below expired on May 20th. I know this is the second time I am doing this but I believe it is the last.  For a refresher for those who don’t remember what the early adopter program is, let me explain.  We released the public preview...

Visual Studio Online Update – Feb 10

February 10, 2014 Feb 10, 2014 02/10/14

Brian Harry

Yesterday, we completed our sprint 60 deployment.  With it comes two new features: Exporting test plans as HTML documents and a permission to control who can create new work item tags.  You can read more about the new features on the service release notes here: http://www.visualstudio.com/news/2014-feb-10-vso. As you may know, since ~Oct...

Application Insights Visual Studio Add-in preview

February 6, 2014 Feb 6, 2014 02/6/14

Brian Harry

In the fall, we introduced a preview of a new VS Online service called “Application Insights” that enables you to instrument your app to ensure that it is available, performing and successful.  It combines APM capabilities with usage analysis, aimed at developers to help them create the best possible apps. Yesterday, we released a ...

Visual Studio Online Update – Jan 22

January 21, 2014 Jan 21, 2014 01/21/14

Brian Harry

Today, our sprint 59 deployment to VS Online went live.  There’s several new features and improvements that have been highly requested.  All of the significant ones are in the general area of work management. Since we introduced tagging as a lightweight work item “customization” approach, people who’ve tried it have had some ...

Load Testing Webinar

January 19, 2014 Jan 19, 2014 01/19/14

Brian Harry

On Thursday, Jan 23rd, Chuck Sterling and Manas Maheshwari will be presenting a Webinar on using VS Ultimate along with VS Online to get started with load testing quickly and easily.  You can register to attend here. I honestly can’t imagine how anyone could consider shipping any web site or service that’s part of some ...