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February CTP for Visual Studio Update 2

February 11, 2013 Feb 11, 2013 02/11/13
Charles Sterling
Visual Studio Updates are a mechanism we are using to provide ongoing value throughout the year to our Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server customers. These updates will provide features to support the latest software trends in the market, and also offer an easy way to deploy bug fixes.  In Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 we are focusing ...

DevOps virtual machine with Team Foundation Server 2012 and System Center 2012 now available

February 7, 2013 Feb 7, 2013 02/7/13
Charles Sterling
Hands down one of the best training tools Microsoft has for Application Lifecycle Tools is Brian Keller’s virtual machines.  Today Brian released another of these virtual machines -this one focused on the integration between System Center 2012 Operations Manager and Team Foundation Server 2012.  In addition to the hands-on-lab / ...

Debugging Unhandled Exceptions in a SharePoint App with Visual Studio using IntelliTrace

February 5, 2013 Feb 5, 2013 02/5/13
Tim Varcak (MSFT)
Following on from our last blog post on IntelliTrace enhancements for SharePoint, in this blog post we’ll talk about how the new analysis section for SharePoint can help you find the source of issues faster. The New Analysis Section IntelliTrace is very good at providing a lot of data to you for debugging, but there is such a thing as “...

Improvements in Windows Store Unit Tests: Test Exceptions in Async Lambda Expressions, Run Tests on the UI Thread

February 2, 2013 Feb 2, 2013 02/2/13
Charles Sterling
Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 includes support for unit testing managed Windows Store apps and includes unit test library templates for Visual C#, Visual Basic and Visual C++. For more information about these, see Creating and Running Unit Tests for Windows Store Apps. The namespace Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestPlatform.UnitTestFramework contains...

Fixes for TFS 2012 Update 1 (aka Cumulative Update 1 for Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012 Update 1)

February 1, 2013 Feb 1, 2013 02/1/13
Buck Hodges
We have now released a patch with a set of fixes for TFS 2012 Update 1. Many of you saw that we released a patch in early January and then pulled it down. This is the re-release.Shipping major changes to the server on this much faster cadence has been a learning experience for us. Brian wrote about some of the lessons we learned here. It turns...

Windows Phone Unit Tests in Visual Studio 2012 Update 2

January 31, 2013 Jan 31, 2013 01/31/13
Vinay.Krishna
Unit Testing is an important part of the application development life cycle for any platform. Visual Studio users no longer need to depend on 3rd party frameworks for unit tests on Windows Phone. The Windows Phone Unit Test framework delivered in CTP2 of Visual Studio Update 2 provides a consistent experience for developers to author, run and ...

Getting Started with Git in Visual Studio and Team Foundation Service

January 30, 2013 Jan 30, 2013 01/30/13
Andy Lewis
By Matthew Mitrik (MS), Andy Lewis, and Martin Woodward Today we announced the availability of Git for Visual Studio and Team Foundation Service. In this post, we'll walk through the new experiences. Get set up: Get the free service, and then you can use it with any Git client tools you want, including Visual Studio. To use the ...