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February 2015 - Page 2 of 3 - Azure DevOps Blog

Learn about your app’s usage with Application Insights

February 14, 2015 Feb 14, 2015 02/14/15
Importer
We’re excited to introduce our new usage analysis experience for both your web applications and device apps (Windows Phone and Windows Store applications). Using Application Insights, it’s now easy to answer common questions about your app adoption, your users’ profile, the way your users experience the app, your top used features, and ...

Announcing Limited Preview for Visual Studio Online Code Search

February 12, 2015 Feb 12, 2015 02/12/15
Biju Venugopal MS
Today we are unveiling a limited preview of our new Code Search feature on Visual Studio Online.  Code Search enables you to quickly and easily search across your entire account and find matches using your web browser.  Not only can you perform full text matching but for some languages, like C#,  C and C++, and additional ones ...

Build Futures

February 12, 2015 Feb 12, 2015 02/12/15
Chris Patterson (MSFT)
At the Connect() developer event in November 2014 we showed a sneak peek at the investments we are making for our build automation features in TFS and Visual Studio Online. These new capabilities will be available in TFS 2015 and in Visual Studio Online starting in Q2 of 2015. TFS had build automation starting with its first release in 2006 ...

New ways to quickly create a Code Map

February 12, 2015 Feb 12, 2015 02/12/15
Jean-Marc Prieur
Code Maps, previously known as Directed Graph Documents, are a great way to visualize the relationships and interdependencies between the components of your applications. They make it much easier to understand the architecture of your (or, even more useful, somebody else’s) application, and where you should start when you need to update the ...

Extracting effective permissions and Security Auditing for TFS

February 10, 2015 Feb 10, 2015 02/10/15
Willy-P. Schaub
The Visual Studio ALM Rangers are pleased to announce our v1.1 release for Extracting effective permissions and Security Auditing for TFS. This release contains a whitepaper and samples all based on a prototype to help you get started with extracting effective permissions. Hear what some of the team members have to say about the research and...

The Output window while debugging with Visual Studio

February 9, 2015 Feb 9, 2015 02/9/15
Angelos Petropoulos
The Output window is a veteran in the war against bugs and has been part of Visual Studio since its very first release. It is comprised of a collection of text panes that communicate information to the user: The Output window can be extended by adding to its collection of text panes programmatically, but out of the box with a typical project ...

Deploying Azure Cloud Service using Release Management

February 9, 2015 Feb 9, 2015 02/9/15
Roopesh Nair
 Summary You have downloaded the Release Management for Visual Studio client, and are connected to either your Visual Studio Online account. You have an Azure Cloud Service project and want to use Release Management to update the same using the latest drop from a TFS buildIn the current state, you will have to write Powershell scripts on...

Understanding migrations from on-premises TFS to Visual Studio Online

February 6, 2015 Feb 6, 2015 02/6/15
Willy-P. Schaub
The Visual Studio ALM Rangers are pleased to announce the release of the second Understanding TFS migrations from on-premises to Visual Studio Online research findings whitepaper. This second part is a walkthrough of a migration, using a simulated on-premises environment, Brian Keller's VM’s, to Visual Studio Online (VSO). The walkthrough ...

Application Insights: Moving from Visual Studio Online Portal to Azure Preview Portal

February 6, 2015 Feb 6, 2015 02/6/15
Rahul Bagaria (MSFT)
In the last year, Application Insights has been making a transition from being part of the Visual Studio Online Portal to be one of the services offered in the new Azure Preview portal. It has been our vision to provide you complete 360° views of your applications' availability, performance and usage which can enable fast & powerful ...