August 2014

Monitoring your existing Applications

August 27, 2014 Aug 27, 2014 08/27/14

Sometimes you want to monitor a web application that’s already installed and running – without updating the code or redeploying it. Maybe it has some kind of performance issues or is throwing exceptions and you need to apply instrumentation ASAP.Now you can do that with Application Insights Status Monitor. Just by installing it on your ...

Free and unlimited project stakeholders, and organizational accounts for Visual Studio Online

August 27, 2014 Aug 27, 2014 08/27/14

Charles Sterling

Was just going through my email and noticed the announcement for two new features for Visual Studio Online: **************** Invite stakeholders to a project to keep them informed on what's happening with that team or project. They’ll have access to the team home page, where they can view updated project information. They’ll ...

Data-Driven Load Tests using Visual Studio Online and SQL Azure

August 26, 2014 Aug 26, 2014 08/26/14

Charles Sterling

Editors Note:While working in Australia I was blessed to work with some truly gifted technologists. In the SQL space David Lean was the local legend with the (deserved) reputation of being THE SQL Performance Guru.David has since left Microsoft but continue his cutting edge work with SQL Server and Application Tuning. Thanks for the ...

PerfTips: Performance Information at-a-glance while Debugging with Visual Studio

August 18, 2014 Aug 18, 2014 08/18/14

Dan Taylor

Note: this post has been updated for Visual Studio 2015 RTM.You are probably all familiar with the debugger DataTips that let you see the value of a variable when you hover over it in the editor. This post introduces the new PerfTips feature in Visual Studio 2015 for C#/VB, and C++ developers on all Windows platforms.Why PerfTips?We have...

Application Insights – instrumentation approaches for running tests

August 14, 2014 Aug 14, 2014 08/14/14

VladJ

[this summer Beckylin Orooji from the University of Central Florida in Orlando studying Computer Science interned with the Application Insights team in the developer division at Microsoft. Below is a blog she authored based on some end to end scenarios she worked on]In my scenario today I have a shopping website. I have made some changes ...

Project Welcome Pages

August 8, 2014 Aug 8, 2014 08/8/14

Martin Woodward

We recently deployed a new feature to Visual Studio Online to help people get new team members started with a project and for people browsing the server to understand what a project is for and how to use it. We call the feature “Project Welcome Pages”. It’s very easy to tell when the feature had been enabled for your account, simply go ...

IntelliTrace standalone collector is back!

August 7, 2014 Aug 7, 2014 08/7/14

Angelos Petropoulos

As you probably already know, Visual Studio Ultimate offers an enhanced live debugging experience (F5 or Attach) through the use of IntelliTrace. Your application’s execution is recorded by IntelliTrace and you can navigate through time, both backwards and forwards, and examine your code as you normally would during a debugging session ...

Restrict Team Foundation Build permissions

August 6, 2014 Aug 6, 2014 08/6/14

Andy Lewis

Do you have code that should be seen by only a subset of members of your on-premises team project collection? Do you use Team Foundation Build (TFBuild)? If so, you must create some custom groups to reduce the risk that unauthorized team project collection members can use a build process to bypass team project permissions....

Work-items tracking using Release Management

August 4, 2014 Aug 4, 2014 08/4/14

Anand Gaurav

Tracing what is new in a given release for a product is often tiresome and time taking task. With Microsoft Release Management 2013 Update 3 RC/RTM, you can achieve this easily through its “Change Summary” feature. Details of this feature is described belowChange Summary feature detailsManual ReleaseWhen you start a new manual ...

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