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August 2016 - Azure DevOps Blog

Sell Visual Studio Team Services extensions

August 30, 2016 Aug 30, 2016 08/30/16
Mathew Aniyan MSFT
Publishers can now sell any Team Services extension in the Visual Studio Marketplace. Earlier, only Microsoft extensions such as Test Manager, Visual Studio, and HockeyApp subscriptions could be sold in the Visual Studio Marketplace. Visual Studio Marketplace now integrates with the Azure Publishing Portal, which shows a new offer type called...

Install Visual Studio Marketplace extensions directly to Team Foundation Server

August 25, 2016 Aug 25, 2016 08/25/16
Mathew Aniyan MSFT
You can now install Visual Studio Marketplace Extensions to Team Foundation Server “15” RC1 seamlessly. When you browse the Marketplace from TFS, you'll now see a new connected experience. Install a free extension Let's walk through installing a free extension. We'll start from TFS and choose Browse Marketplace. Because we connected ...

Continuous Delivery of iOS Applications with Visual Studio Team Services

August 25, 2016 Aug 25, 2016 08/25/16
Madhuri Gummalla
We are happy to announce an Apple App Store extension that allows deploying iOS applications to the Apple App Store via Team Services or Team Foundation Server (2015 Update 3 or later). Along with the Google Play extension, this provides a good story for continuous deployment of iOS and Android mobile applications via Team Services and TFS...

Upcoming Changes to How You Log into Visual Studio Team Services

August 24, 2016 Aug 24, 2016 08/24/16
Shantaram P
In order to make it easier for you to sign into Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS), we will soon be updating the steps that you will take when you log into your account.  After we’ve made these changes, you will see some new login screens when connect to the service. If you’re using Azure Active Directory (AAD) or Office 365 (O365), these...

Becoming more productive with Git: Tower and Team Services

August 24, 2016 Aug 24, 2016 08/24/16
Ayushman Jain
Posted on behalf of guest blogger: Tobias Günther, CEO Fournova -- Working with Git in Visual Studio Team Services and Team Foundation Server just became even easier: the popular Git desktop client Tower now comes with dedicated integrations for these services. With that, cloning and creating repositories is now just a click away - and ...

User Lifecycle Management Improvements in Visual Studio Team Services

August 23, 2016 Aug 23, 2016 08/23/16
Shantaram P
Today Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) is releasing an update to our service which will bring more of Office 365 and Azure Active Directory (AAD)’s user lifecycle management capabilities to VSTS. With this update, customers using AAD to secure VSTS accounts  can be confident that whenever a user is disabled or deleted within their AAD ...

Testing private/intranet applications using Cloud-based load testing

August 23, 2016 Aug 23, 2016 08/23/16
Deepak.Singhal [MSFT]
Cloud-based Load Testing Service can be used for performance and scale testing of an application by generating load from Azure. This type of load generation can only hit/generate load on an internet/publically accessible application. But we have seen many times customer needs to load test their application which is not publically accessible. ...

Work items now open in the web from Visual Studio ’15’

August 22, 2016 Aug 22, 2016 08/22/16
Dante Santos
If you use work item tracking with Visual Studio '15', you may have noticed that work items now open in a browser window. This change to how you interact with work items allows us to provide you with a number of benefits. One work item experience for all platforms Work items are canvases for discussion and collaboration. With this change, ...

Use cloud load agents on your infrastructure

August 22, 2016 Aug 22, 2016 08/22/16
Deepak.Singhal [MSFT]
This blog talks about how you can configure your own machines (physical/VMs) with Cloud-based Load Testing service to do a load test run. This is primarily useful when you want to load test an application which is not publically accessible. To get more context around this, please refer 'Load testing Applications behind Firewall using Cloud-...