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Quick Response samples provide information directly from Visual Studio ALM Rangers working with the Microsoft Visual Studio Product Group, in response to feature gaps to supplement the product and knowledge base information. Issue The Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server VM Factory automation team, working on the Visual Studio Readiness “Gi...

It is no secret that it is our partners that help make Visual Studio the best development environment on the planet – and DXperience 12.1 from DevExpress ensures that this thought leadership and great experience will continue going forward.   As many developers already know DXperience tools address a wide range of software developm...

This past weekend we upgraded the TFS server used by the Developer Division and other teams who deliver Visual Studio 2012. It is now running TFS 2012 RC!read more about it… Follow me at twitter.com/tfsbuck

As you may know, we recently announced the launch of the Visual Studio RC 2012. Here is a list of some exciting new features in the MTM RC 2012:   The new Video Recorder To further ease the usage of Microsoft Test Manager, a Media Foundation based video recorder has been integrated with the product, which means that you don’t have...

We have just refreshed Visual Studio ALM Quick Reference Guidance download package for Visual Studio 2012 RC, after we noticed package file corruptions. Get the latest and greatest content, which includes 23 quick reference posters / sheets and 1 video from here: Here are a few examples:          

While many of the features in Visual Studio 2012 are available to users using TFS 2008 or 2010, there are some features that are only available when using a TFS 2012 server.  Also, the web experience in TFS 2012 has been rebuilt entirely from the ground up, and the result is a fast, fluid experience that also includes new experiences tailored ...

Today we released a patch for VS 2008 SP1 and Team Explorer 2008 SP1 to be able to connect and use both the Team Foundation Service preview (http://tfspreview.com) and Team Foundation Server 2012.  You can download it here.While we are on the subject of updates, the patch for Visual Studio 2010 SP1 and Team Explorer 2010 SP1 is available here....

When you create your first connection to TFS the local client downloads the metadata required to work with the TFS work items. By default it downloads the metadata for all team projects in a collection, including the ones that you don't have access to. Martin Woodward has a great blog post if you want to read more on the background info, however th...

While we don’t usually do organization announcements on our blogs I thought I would make an exception in this case as Ed Blankenship has been one of the earliest and most active ALM MVPs-and he just joined the ALM Team focusing on Lab Management scenarios. I started working with Ed back when he visited Microsoft for a week of his vacation when he ...

In Jason Zander’s blog post: Announcing the Release Candidate (RC) of Visual Studio 2012 and .NET Framework 4.5 he showed a new Coded UI feature  -capturing playback logs.   Please note this blog post has been updated.  Please see: Enabling Tracing and HtmlLogger in Coded UI Test             ...