November 2016 | Azure DevOps Blog

Live Dependency Validation in Visual Studio 2017

Jean-Marc Prieur November 30, 2016 Nov 30, 2016 11/30/16

Last month we announced that Visual Studio “Dev15” Preview 5 now supported Live Dependency Validation. In this blog post, On demand video about dependency validation During the connect 2016 event, we’ve proposed an on-demand video which explains in detail why you’d want to use Dependency ...

Evolving the Visual Studio Test Platform – Part 3: .NET Core, convergence, and cross-plat

Pratap Lakshman November 29, 2016 Nov 29, 2016 11/29/16

[This is the 3rd post in the series on evolving the Visual Studio Test Platform. You can read the earlier posts here: Evolving the Visual Studio Test Platform – Part 2, Evolving the Visual Studio Test Platform – Part 1] As .NET Core draws an ever-growing community of developers with existing assets and experiences, it is essential to ...

Getting the most out of Git

Ayushman Jain November 28, 2016 Nov 28, 2016 11/28/16

Posted on behalf of guest blogger: Tobias Günther, CEO Fournova . Git Tower and Team Services together provide an awesome Git solution for your team, on Mac and (now!) Windows. — In the last few years, millions of developers have started to use Git. But just a fraction of them are using it confidently and productively: Git's large ...

Test Controller, Test Agent versions and their usage in different scenarios

Prachi Bora (MSFT) November 23, 2016 Nov 23, 2016 11/23/16

There have been several questions on the different scenarios related to running automated tests in various workflows and which versions can / cannot be used. Let's use the following 2 names for categorizing how agents get used: Agents for Visual Studio 2013 Update 5 Agents for Visual Studio 2015 and Agents ...

Team Services November Extensions Roundup

Joe Bourne November 18, 2016 Nov 18, 2016 11/18/16

This month, I’ve got two fun new extensions that have lots of potential; both of them are highly trending - taking some of the top spots for our most downloaded extensions over the last 30 days. I hope you enjoy these and have a Happy Thanksgiving! Activity Feed See it in the Marketplace: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName...

Azure App Services Continuous Delivery

Gopinath C H[MSFT] November 17, 2016 Nov 17, 2016 11/17/16

We are continuously working on improving and simplifying the deployment experience to Azure from Visual Studio Team Services. As a part of that effort, we are excited to announce preview of the Continuous Delivery feature we have added for App Services in the Azure portal. Continuous Delivery simplifies setting up a robust deployment pipeline...

Storyboard shapes extensions being deprecated from Visual Studio Marketplace

Harysh Menon November 16, 2016 Nov 16, 2016 11/16/16

PowerPoint integration has been deprecated in Visual Studio 2019 Starting today Visual Studio extensions are now being served from the Visual Studio Marketplace. Nearly all 10,000 + private and public Visual Studio extensions have been migrated to the Visual Studio Marketplace. As part of this change we are deprecating the Storyboard Shapes ...

Visual Studio extensions now on the Marketplace!

Harysh Menon November 16, 2016 Nov 16, 2016 11/16/16

We launched the public preview of the Visual Studio Marketplace at Connect() last year. Since then we’ve added a lot of features and have seen great engagement from developers both building and consuming extensions. But there was always one major missing element in our catalog, and that was Visual Studio extensions. Today we are proud to ...

Announcing general availability of Release Management

Gopinath C H[MSFT] November 16, 2016 Nov 16, 2016 11/16/16

Today we are excited to announce the general availability of Release Management in Visual Studio Team Services. Release Management is available for Team Foundation Server 2017 as well. Since we announced the Public Preview of Release Management, we have been adding new features continuously and the service has been used by thousands of ...

Announcing Public Preview for Work Item Search

Shruti Poddar [MSFT] November 16, 2016 Nov 16, 2016 11/16/16

Today, we are excited to announce the public preview of Work Item Search in Visual Studio Team Services. Work Item Search provides fast and flexible search across all your work items. With Work Item Search you can quickly and easily find relevant work items by searching across all work item fields over all projects in an account. You can ...

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