July 2016 | Azure DevOps Blog

SSH build task

Madhuri GummallaJuly 30, 2016Jul 30, 201607/30/16

On the request of our Linux customers, we have shipped a new SSH build task that allows running commands or scripts on a remote server. This task is available on Visual Studio Team Services and will be available in the next release of Team Foundation Server for our on-premises customers. Using the task is simple. You specify your SSH ...

Gradle build task now also supports PMD analysis

Jean-Marc PrieurJuly 29, 2016Jul 29, 201607/29/16

Last month, we enabled support for PMD analysis in the Maven build task (see The Maven build task now supports PMD analysis out of the box). This is now the turn of Gradle. PMD Analysis with Gradle You can now request a PMD analysis in the Gradle build task using the new “Run PMD Analysis” checkbox which instructs Gradle to perform PMD ...

SSH support for Git repos is now available

Kayla Ngan (MSFT)July 26, 2016Jul 26, 201607/26/16

A few months ago, Jeremy mentioned that SSH support for Git repos was in private preview. I’m happy to announce that it is now available to everyone in both TFS and Team Services. You can now connect to any Team Services repo using an SSH key, which is particularly helpful if you develop on Linux or Mac. Learn more about SSH, or continue ...

Evolving the Visual Studio Test Platform – Part 1

Pratap LakshmanJuly 25, 2016Jul 25, 201607/25/16

Three releases (VS 2015 Update 3, Visual Studio "15" Preview 3, MSTest V2) featuring Test Platform components in as many months indicate a path best traced by starting from the present. The Test Platform Presently, Visual Studio has an open and extensible test platform with tests being written using various test frameworks and run using a ...

Speed up cloud-load test execution by retaining resources for quick consecutive runs

Prachi Bora (MSFT)July 18, 2016Jul 18, 201607/18/16

Validating application's performance by running a load test typically follows a test->fix->test loop, often repeated several times. After you have run an initial load test and made some changes (either on the app side or test side by fixing issues or tweaking configurations), you want to quickly validate if that works and gives you the...

7 Ways to Look at the Values of Variables While Debugging in Visual Studio

Aaron HallbergJuly 15, 2016Jul 15, 201607/15/16

When you are running your code and something is behaving unexpectedly, how do you find out what is going wrong? When I was in school the first way I learned how to debug a wonky application was by sticking “print()” statements all over the place, running my code, and looking back through the log of output seeing if I noticed that something...

July Hosted Build Pool Image Updates

Chris Patterson (MSFT)July 13, 2016Jul 13, 201607/13/16

Today we are rolling out a new image to the hosted build pool with the following updates: For a full list of software see https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/docs/build/agents/hosted-pool#software...

A new Team Services build task to queue Jenkins jobs

Jason ShollJuly 12, 2016Jul 12, 201607/12/16

Team Services sprint 102 introduces a new build task, Jenkins Queue Job. Now your Team Foundation Server (TFS) builds can integrate with Jenkins to queue and monitor Jenkins jobs. The Jenkins Queue Job task is cross platform and does not require any additional build agent dependencies. Add the Queue Jenkins Job Build task to your build ...

Create Archives in Team Services Builds and Releases

Jason ShollJuly 12, 2016Jul 12, 201607/12/16

Team Services sprint 102 introduces a new build task, Archive Files. Use it to easily create archives during your Team Foundation Server (TFS) or Team Services continuous integration (CI) build process. The Archive Files task is cross platform and uses native zip, tar, and 7-Zip on Mac and Linux. For Windows, we bundled 7-Zip with the...

Try paid Team Services extensions for free!

Zack AvitanJuly 12, 2016Jul 12, 201607/12/16

You can now try Team Services paid extensions free for 30 days. No credit card required and no surprise charges after the trial ends. If the extension is a good fit for your team, pay for what you need and we'll take care of the rest. For example, the Test Manager extension offers a free 30-day trial so that all users with Basic access can...

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