December 2016

JBoss and WildFly extension for Visual Studio Team Services

December 14, 2016 Dec 14, 2016 12/14/16

Yang Cao (VSNC)

We are pleased to announce the new JBoss and WildFly extension available from the Visual Studio Marketplace for Visual Studio Team Services / Team Foundation Server. This extension provides a task to deploy your Java applications to an instance of JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) 7 or WildFly Application Server 8 and above over ...

Team Services December Extensions Roundup

December 14, 2016 Dec 14, 2016 12/14/16

Joe Bourne

It is the holiday season and we get to look back on a fantastic year for the Team Services Marketplace! Thanks to our growing publisher community there are 321 extensions in the Marketplace and November was one of the best months ever for our installation traffic. 2017 is full of potential as we continue to invest and grow our ecosystem...

SonarSource have announced their own SonarQube Team Services / TFS integration

December 13, 2016 Dec 13, 2016 12/13/16

Bogdan Gavril

Microsoft have been partnering with SonarSource for almost two years to bring SonarQube to .NET developers and to make it easy to analyze MSBuild and Java projects from Visual Studio Team Services, TFS and Visual Studio. The partnership, and Team Services extensibility, have now matured to the point that we have jointly decided that it was ...

How to recreate the TFVC team project folder

December 12, 2016 Dec 12, 2016 12/12/16

Matt Cooper

We've had a handful of support calls lately from customers who deleted their team project folder in TFVC. tf.exe makes it easy to do, but not easy to undo. Fortunately, the fix is straightforward, and Will Lennon has written it up in a blog post. With Will's permission, I'm reblogging the contents below. TF.exe makes it easy to destroy a ...

The Visual Studio Modeling SDK is now available with Visual Studio 2017

December 12, 2016 Dec 12, 2016 12/12/16

Jean-Marc Prieur

You might want to use the Visual Studio Modeling SDK if you have one of these requirements: The Modeling SDK changed its name several times during the last ten years: starting from the ‘DSL Tools’ in 2007, it grew to become ‘Visualization and Modeling SDK’ (VSVm SDK) in 2010. At that time, the SDK also contained UML ...

December Hosted Build Image Updates

December 8, 2016 Dec 8, 2016 12/8/16

Chris Patterson (MSFT)

Over the next few days we will roll out a new build image with the following software updates. < p>For a full list of software see https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/docs/build/admin/agents/hosted-pool#software-on-the-hosted-build-server...

Agent-based deployment in Release Management

December 5, 2016 Dec 5, 2016 12/5/16

Roopesh Nair

Agent-based deployment in Release Management Our approach in Release management so far has been to integrate with various deployment tools and platforms while providing rich control over the flow of bits, traceability, and auditability. When it comes to PaaS deployments, we have first-class integration with Azure, platform abstracts out the ...

What’s new in Git for Windows 2.11?

December 1, 2016 Dec 1, 2016 12/1/16

Johannes Schindelin

Git for Windows v2.11.0 is out! Download it here (homepage is here). The new version corresponds to Git v2.11.0 (release notes are here, and our friends over at GitHub blogged about it, too). Apart from the improvements inherited from the "upstream Git" project, Git for Windows also updated some libraries to address security concerns, and ...

Azure DevOps Blog

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