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October 2014 - Azure DevOps Blog

Announcing a simplified browser-based authoring and configuration experience for Load Testing

October 28, 2014 Oct 28, 2014 10/28/14
Charles Sterling
A natural extension to the cloud-based load service, this simplified browser-based authoring and configuration experience enables practically anyone to create and run a load test. Performance testing is often relegated to specialist performance engineers and treated as one of the niche areas of testing, where the tester needs to a proficient ...

Upcoming Changes in Visual Studio Architecture and Design Tools

October 24, 2014 Oct 24, 2014 10/24/14
Jean-Marc Prieur
Introduction This post explains some of our plans for evolving our architecture and design tools in Visual Studio, including new capabilities and changes to existing capabilities that we will be delivering in the next major release and subsequent updates. Although these plans have already been informed by an analysis of usage data and ...

New Web Access Test features walk through

October 22, 2014 Oct 22, 2014 10/22/14
Charles Sterling
I just finished a Microsoft Virtual Academy on DevOps covering new features in Visual Studio Online and Team Foundation Server Update 4 with Jeff Levinson and we had a couple of the attendees ask for the Excel File that we used to create the Test Cases and the shared parameters.  I decided to do one better…publish all the steps we went ...

Application Insights SDK (0.11.0-prerelease)

October 21, 2014 Oct 21, 2014 10/21/14
Joshua Weber-MSFT
What is it? Application Insights SDK lets you send telemetry to the Application Insights portal, where you can find out what users are doing with your application. 0.11.0 is the latest SDK release for Application Insights. This SDK includes new functionality and new concepts in addition to a change to the API. For information on the ...

Trigger Release from build with Release Management for Visual Studio 2013 Update 3

October 10, 2014 Oct 10, 2014 10/10/14
Anand Gaurav
The following is applicable only for vNext pipelines of Release Management.    To trigger a release from build with Release Management for Visual Studio 2013 Update 2, you needed to install RM client on TFS build agent machine.  With Update 3, this is no longer needed. Release Management Update 3 has exposed some REST APIs to trigger ...

New Breakpoint Configuration Experience in Visual Studio 2015

October 6, 2014 Oct 6, 2014 10/6/14
Andrew B Hall - MSFT
If you use Visual Studio to develop code, the chances are good that you set breakpoints on a regular basis as part of debugging. You may however not be aware that breakpoints can be configured with conditions and actions to improve your debugging productivity. In Visual Studio 2015 we’re pleased to introduce an improved experience that ...

Perform diagnostic search across your Application Insights telemetry

October 6, 2014 Oct 6, 2014 10/6/14
Guru Kirthigavasan
In Application Insights, we’ve just upgraded Diagnostic Search so that you can search all the raw telemetry such as page views, as well as the trace log calls that you can insert. This makes it a lot easier to find and follow chains of events in your app. So for example, if you inserted some log4Net, NLog or System.Diagnostics trace calls in...