Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS and Team Foundation Server)
March 20, 2016Mar 20, 201603/20/16Let’s start with what gated checkin is, which is a feature we shipped as part of TFS 2010. Gated checkin enforces that a change in a branch builds and optionally passes tests (and anything else you want to do as part of your build) before it is checked in and available to everyone else in the branch.
March 18, 2016Mar 18, 201603/18/16Beginning with version 2.7.3, Git for Windows includes the Git Credential Manager (GCM) that makes authenticating with Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) a breeze with both Microsoft Accounts (MSAs fka LiveIDs) and Azure Active Directory (AAD) identities. Since GCM is installed by default,
August 11, 2015Aug 11, 201508/11/15There’s an old saying about regular expressions that I’ve always liked. I think it applies equally to caching. Here’s my version.
Some people, when confronted with a performance problem, think “I know, I’ll add a cache.” Now they have two problems.
August 10, 2015Aug 10, 201508/10/15For the past couple of releases we’ve released the Team Foundation Server/Visual Studio Online client object model as a downloadable installer (aka MSI). Additionally, the license for it did not include the right to package it in an application for redistribution.
April 8, 2015Apr 8, 201504/8/15**UPDATE April 25, 2017** This blog post describes our old deployment process. We now use VS Team Services Release Management to deploy VSTS.
We use VS Release Management (RM) to deploy Visual Studio Online (VSO), and this post will describe the process.
March 18, 2015Mar 18, 201503/18/15Back in the December 17th update, we added the ability to make changes to files in the web UI, and it works for both TFVC and Git. Edit is easy to find, since it’s right above the content on the screen.
February 27, 2015Feb 27, 201502/27/15We get quite a few questions from customers on how we made the transition to shipping both an on-premises product and a cloud service. We moved from shipping every 2-3 years to shipping Visual Studio Online every three weeks and TFS every 3-4 months.
December 15, 2014Dec 15, 201412/15/14We’ve had a number of outages and other serious incidents in recent months. It’s clear we haven’t done enough to invest in reliability of the service, and I want to give you some insight into what we are working on that will be coming in January and beyond.
October 7, 2014Oct 7, 201410/7/14NOTE (Sept. 16, 2016): I need to update the solution file to work with VS 2015 and test the code again.
A while back someone asked a question about how to use the API to add licensed users to a VSTS account and change licenses for existing users (instead of the web UI to invite and assign licenses to users).
April 3, 2014Apr 3, 201404/3/14Today at the Build Conference, we showed a preview of the new Azure Portal, and that includes a preview of deep integration with Visual Studio Online. As with any preview, it has some rough edges and limitations. One of the limitations is that you have to create a new Visual Studio Online account through the new Azure Portal Preview.
