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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 ...

Visual Studio Online Update – May 1st

May 1, 2014 May 1, 2014 05/1/14
Brian Harry
This week, we are deploying our sprint 64 work.  You’ll notice that there’s no update on the release notes page.  We decided to skip the release notes because there wasn’t really anything new to tell you about.  Why?  A couple of reasons – we released a bunch of stuff at Build less than a month ago, ...

How Visual Studio Online won me over in under 90 minutes

April 29, 2014 Apr 29, 2014 04/29/14
Brian Harry
Someone forwarded me a link to a blog post that put a smile on my face today.  I enjoyed reading how VS Online was such a natural journey for this person.  I’d like to think Azure would be a great choice for hosting the app, but I’ll be happy that VSO is a satisfying starting point. Read it yourself… http://...

Is Microsoft abandoning TFVC in favor of Git?

April 14, 2014 Apr 14, 2014 04/14/14
Brian Harry
No. This is an example of the power of social media.  I had planned to ignore it but I’ve had enough requests for “official confirmation” that I guess I have to say something :). Last week someone tweeted “Microsoft phasing out the TFS version control repository and moving to Git. Unofficially confirmed at a TFS ...

Visual Studio Online Update – Apr 8th

April 14, 2014 Apr 14, 2014 04/14/14
Brian Harry
You probably didn’t notice that we did our sprint 63 deployment last week.  I didn’t blog about it because there wasn’t much to say.  We announced a whole bunch of new stuff at Build the week before and there wasn’t much new in sprint 63 beyond consolidating on the Build feature set and preparing for our next ...