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Cloud Load testing with Visual Studio Online – Launching General Availability

Charles Sterling April 4, 2014 Apr 4, 2014 04/4/14

As announced with the build conference we are launching the General Availability for cloud load testing using Visual Studio Online.Here are some links to get started and details on free usage limits and applicable charges with General Availability. Getting Started links New Highlights With the integration of the Application ...

Diagnosing Mobile Website Issues on Windows Phone 8.1 with Visual Studio

Andrew B Hall - MSFT April 4, 2014 Apr 4, 2014 04/4/14

If you have spent time trying to make a compelling mobile version of your website you have likely hit issues with it not looking or working correctly on mobile browsers. To help with this on Windows Phone, we’re very excited to announce that in Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 we have enabled the use of Visual Studio’s debugging ...

Performance Profiling on Windows Phone 8.1 with Visual Studio

Haseeb Ah April 3, 2014 Apr 3, 2014 04/3/14

We are very excited to announce that we have added support for performance profiling of Windows Phone XAML and JavaScript apps to the Performance and Diagnostics hub. You can transfer your existing skills and use the same set of tools which work for Windows Store apps to analyze the performance of Windows Phone XAML and JavaScript apps. In ...

Case study: Application Performance Monitoring with Application Insights

Alan Cameron Wills April 3, 2014 Apr 3, 2014 04/3/14

James Beeson, Alan Wills - Our group runs about 20 web applications, serving a community of about 100k users spread around the world. Since we started using Application Insights, we’ve found we have a much clearer view of our applications’ performance, and as a result, our users are seeing better performing and more useful apps. ...

Visual Studio Release Management 2013 Update 2 RC now available

Vijay Machiraju April 3, 2014 Apr 3, 2014 04/3/14

We have announced the public availability of Visual Studio Release Management 2013 Update 2 RC today. Besides various minor fixes and enhancements, this release simplifies deployment of your applications to groups of servers, and triggering releases from third party systems. Let us talk about each of these features. Deploying to groups ...

Create Lab Environment using TFS Lab Management APIs

Subramanyam [MSFT] April 2, 2014 Apr 2, 2014 04/2/14

using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using System.Threading.Tasks; using Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client; using Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Lab.Client; namespace LabEnvironmentCreation { classProgram { staticvoid ...

Querying Lab Environments Using TFS Lab Management APIs

Subramanyam [MSFT] April 2, 2014 Apr 2, 2014 04/2/14

using System;using System.Collections.Generic;using Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client;using Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Lab.Client;namespace QueryLabEnvironment { classProgram { staticvoid Main(string[] args) ...

Team Foundation Server 2013 Update 2 and Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 Release Candidate now available

Charles Sterling April 2, 2014 Apr 2, 2014 04/2/14

This final release of Team Foundation Server 2013 Update 2 and release candidate of Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 has over 100 new features and over 30 in JUST in the ALM space alone! As many already know the developer division is now continually adding features to Visual Studio and these quarterly updates are our chance to both fix ...

Did you uninstall Release Management Server and lose access to the Release Management client?

Tim Elhajj April 2, 2014 Apr 2, 2014 04/2/14

It can happen. If you uninstall the RM server and a client is still pointing to that server (one that is now no longer available, because you just uninstalled it), you will get this error message the next time you launch the client.You can recover by using ReleaseManagementConsoleAdjustConfigFile.exe, a new command line tool included with VS ...

Diagnosing memory issues with the new Memory Usage Tool in Visual Studio

Harikrishna Menon April 2, 2014 Apr 2, 2014 04/2/14

As part of our continued effort to provide great diagnostic tools for developers, Visual Studio 2013 introduces a new Memory Usage tool as a part of the Performance and Diagnostics hub. The Memory Usage tool supports Windows Store and Windows Phone Store apps using C#/VB/C++ and XAML. This blog post gives you an overview of this tool and helps...

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