{"id":11222,"date":"2015-11-18T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-18T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/bharry\/2015\/11\/18\/news-from-connect-2015\/"},"modified":"2019-02-16T22:46:30","modified_gmt":"2019-02-16T22:46:30","slug":"news-from-connect-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/news-from-connect-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"News from Connect(); 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is our annual Fall developer Connect(); event in New York.&nbsp; I&rsquo;m here talking about a ton of new stuff that we&rsquo;re doing to help developers adopt agile DevOps practices.&nbsp; Normally I would write a detailed post with screenshots and descriptions highlighting the news.&nbsp; However, this time, I&rsquo;m going to take a different approach.&nbsp; There&rsquo;s so much stuff to talk about that I can&rsquo;t write that post &ndash; I&rsquo;d spend days on it and you wouldn&rsquo;t want to read it \ud83d\ude42&nbsp; Instead, I&rsquo;m going to write a directory of news.<\/p>\n<p>Over the next day or two, as blog posts get written on the details from people across our team, I&rsquo;ll update it with links.&nbsp; In the meantime, there are some good places to look for details:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visualstudio.com\/news\/news-overview-vs\">visualstudio.com News<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/visualstudioalm\/archive\/2015\/08\/27\/announcing-package-management-for-vso-tfs.aspx\">The VSALM blog<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/marketplace.visualstudio.com\">Visual Studio Marketplace<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here&rsquo;s a brain dump of all of the significant things we&rsquo;re releasing or announcing today (scoped by TFS\/VS Team Services and our DevOps solutions).&nbsp; I&rsquo;m sure I&rsquo;ve missed a few things:<\/p>\n<h3>General<\/h3>\n<p>Visual Studio Online is now Visual Studio Team Services<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Try to be clear that it is not a browser based IDE.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Keyboard shortcuts across the VS Team Services experience<\/p>\n<p>my.visualstudio.com<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A new portal for managing your developer benefits<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>marketplace.visualstudio.com<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A new marketplace for find Visual Studio, Visual Studio Team Services and Visual Studio Code extension<\/li>\n<li>And, of course, a ton of exciting new extensions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Visual Studio Cloud Subscriptions<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In addition to all the ways to buy Visual Studio today, you can now get monthly or annual subscriptions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Transformed Team Services Advanced license to a Test Manager Extension<\/p>\n<h3>Agile<\/h3>\n<p>Dashboards<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Share information with your team and your stakeholders<\/li>\n<li>Create as many dashboards as you like<\/li>\n<li>Choose from a large and extensible set of widgets<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Process customization<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The ability to easily add fields to a work item type<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Inline tasks on Kanban cards<\/p>\n<p>TFS Time tracker extension<\/p>\n<h3>Code<\/h3>\n<p>Code search public preview<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Search all Git and TFVC repos across your account<\/li>\n<li>Parse C#, C and C++ to allow semantic searching<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Git &amp; TFVC in the same Team Project<\/p>\n<p>IntelliJ plugin<\/p>\n<p>Package management<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Create NuGet feeds in your Team Services account to manage open source or private packages<\/li>\n<li>Build tasks to restore, package and publish NuGet packages<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Testing<\/h3>\n<p>New exploratory testing experience<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Take screen shots and annotate them<\/li>\n<li>Browser extension can be used to test web apps or device apps rendered in a browser<\/li>\n<li>File bugs<\/li>\n<li>Run on any platform<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Support for JMeter load tests<\/p>\n<p>New support for Jacoco and Cobertura for Java code coverage analysis<\/p>\n<p>Parallel test execution<\/p>\n<p>Extensions for PerfectoMobile, SauceLabs, Xamarin Test Cloud and Soasta<\/p>\n<h3>CI\/CD<\/h3>\n<p>Test integration in build reports<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A new Test hub in build reports integrates test results and analysis into your build results<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Subversion support in Team Services Builds<\/p>\n<p>Hosted Mac builds with Mac In Cloud<\/p>\n<p>RM public preview<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Web based interface<\/li>\n<li>Unified agent and task architecture with build enabling great flexibility<\/li>\n<li>Full xplat \/ extensible &hellip; docker, shell scripts, tomcat&hellip; import artifacts from other sources like Jenkins <\/li>\n<li>Fewer concepts, easy to get started<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>HockeyApp integration with Team Services<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Publish to the HockeyApp beta catalog from your CD pipeline<\/li>\n<li>Report feedback and crash reports to Team Services<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A new free plan for HockeyApp for people getting started developing device apps<\/p>\n<p>CloudBees extension<\/p>\n<h3>App Insights<\/h3>\n<p>VS integrated log search<\/p>\n<p>Diagnostics hub integration for &ldquo;F5&rdquo; telemetry<\/p>\n<p>Preview of new anomaly detection service<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Automatically analyze telemetry and apply machine learning to identify aberrant behavior<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Annotations<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Add key operational events &ndash; like application updates to your graphs to identify inflection points<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>PowerBI support<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Load telemetry into PowerBI for custom reporting<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Azure diagnostics integration<\/p>\n<h3>Summary<\/h3>\n<p>As I said, it&rsquo;s a lot of stuff.&nbsp; Stay tuned for more detail.<\/p>\n<p>Brian<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is our annual Fall developer Connect(); event in New York.&nbsp; I&rsquo;m here talking about a ton of new stuff that we&rsquo;re doing to help developers adopt agile DevOps practices.&nbsp; Normally I would write a detailed post with screenshots and descriptions highlighting the news.&nbsp; However, this time, I&rsquo;m going to take a different approach.&nbsp; There&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":244,"featured_media":14617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,8],"class_list":["post-11222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-tfs","tag-vsonline"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Today is our annual Fall developer Connect(); event in New York.&nbsp; I&rsquo;m here talking about a ton of new stuff that we&rsquo;re doing to help developers adopt agile DevOps practices.&nbsp; 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