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Creating Fence Environments using Team Foundation Server 2013 Preview Lab Management can put Lab Environment in “Not Ready” state

July 22, 2013 Jul 22, 2013 07/22/13
Anisha Pindoria
This issue can occur if the guest OS is Windows 2012 R2 Preview. (image)   Workaround: Install Agents for the Lab Environment once. It should fix the problem.  Cause: When the test agent is installed and configured, by default it enables firewall exception for tcp port 6910 in privateand current profiles. If the guest OS is ...

Creating Fence Environments using team foundation server 2013 Preview Lab Management can give error “The given key is not present in the dictionary..”

July 22, 2013 Jul 22, 2013 07/22/13
Importer
This issue can occur when Lab Management is configured with SCVMM 2012 R2 Preview    (image) Workaround :  Repair the Lab Environment once. It should fix the problem.  Cause:  While creating a network isolated environment Lab creates a virtual network using SCVMM. This network creation completes successfully but SCVMM still returns...

Performance and Diagnostics Hub in Visual Studio 2013

July 12, 2013 Jul 12, 2013 07/12/13
Dan Taylor
Update: this blog post has been updated for Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 – enjoy! If you attended our Build conference or watched some of the videos, you may have seen some of the new profiling tools and our Performance and Diagnostics hub. This blog post will provide an overview of the hub and the various performance analysis tools that we ...

Energy Consumption tool in Visual Studio 2013

July 10, 2013 Jul 10, 2013 07/10/13
Charles Sterling
(Posting for a team mate: Shiv Prashant Sood) Battery draining applications result in bad customer experience and poor ratings. Optimal battery usage is an important aspect that a developer must consider. This post introduces the Energy Consumption tool, a new tool in the Visual Studio Performance and Diagnostics hub that enables you to ...

Team Foundation Server 2013 Preview – Upgrade FAQ

July 10, 2013 Jul 10, 2013 07/10/13
AndreaMS
 Now that the Preview has been out for a couple of weeks, we've started to get lots of questions about acquisition and upgrade.  This page provides useful information about the upgrade process for the Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2013 Preview.  If you're unfamiliar with the new features available in Visual Studio 2013, ...

Debugging Asynchronous Code in Visual Studio 2013- Call Stack enhancements

July 1, 2013 Jul 1, 2013 07/1/13
Brad Sullivan
Asynchronous code is ubiquitous in Windows apps. While asynchronous code can be great for creating responsive apps, it can also make it difficult for developers to understand the flow of their application. In Visual Studio 2013 and Windows 8.1, we have added new features that make it easier to understand the state of your asynchronous app so ...