Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS and Team Foundation Server)
November 22, 2017Nov 22, 201711/22/17Last week I gave a keynote on DevOps at VS Live! 2017 in Orlando. In this talk I cover four main things.
Controlling exposure using feature flags
Greater resiliency by using circuit breakers
Live site management and the importance of root cause
Transforming our tests to become fast and reliable.
October 12, 2016Oct 12, 201610/12/16If you are using Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) with Visual Studio Team Services, you can configure the Team Foundation Server Proxy to cache files for version control for your account. It’s very straightforward as the TFS configuration app will do the work for you.
May 10, 2016May 10, 201605/10/16[Update 5/29/2016] We will be turning on SSH for all existing accounts once we finish deploying sprint 100 (hopefully by the end of this week).
We are beginning to roll out SSH for Team Services accounts. If you would like SSH enabled for your account,
March 31, 2016Mar 31, 201603/31/16Today at the Build 2016 conference, Azure announced a new feature called Azure Functions. Here’s a quick description from the main page.
Azure Functions is an event driven, compute-on-demand experience that extends the existing Azure application platform with capabilities to implement code triggered by events occurring in virtually any Azure or 3rd party service as well as on-premises systems.
March 25, 2016Mar 25, 201603/25/16I use the board view of the backlog in my VS Team Services personal account to keep track of my work. I’ve wanted to be able to email a work item to my backlog, and today I finally got around to doing it.
April 14, 2010Apr 14, 201004/14/10Monday was the official launch for the TFS and VS 2010 releases! I highly recommend upgrading from TFS 2005 or TFS 2008 to TFS 2010. The number of new features in TFS 2010 is very long, and there are lots of posts on them.
July 30, 2009Jul 30, 200907/30/09Dennis Stone, a tester on Team Test, has posted a great walkthrough of using the new test impact feature of 2010. If you aren’t familiar with test impact, it’s a feature that tells you which tests execute the code you’ve changed in a checkin.
May 18, 2009May 18, 200905/18/09Beta 1 for TFS 2010, along with VS and VSTS, is now available to MSDN subscribers and will be available for broad download shortly. Be sure to check out the Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 First Look site to see what’s in this release,
April 9, 2009Apr 9, 200904/9/09SQL 2008 SP1 has just been released, and we’ve gotten a couple of questions about whether it is supported with with Team Foundation Server 2008. We tested SQL 2008 SP1 with both the original release of TFS 2008 and TFS 2008 SP1,
February 6, 2009Feb 6, 200902/6/09Sharon Elkins has written a post about the newly-redesigned Team System web site. She has some details on the transformation, but one thing that stands out is the page reduction. It’s got about 75% fewer pages, which means a bunch of old stuff is gone.
