Showing archive results for 2016

The first wave of work for process customization is complete: allowing you to modify fields, layout and states of existing work item types.  While it’s taken longer than we had anticipated, we’ve received a ton of great feedback and our plan is to continue to work through the backlog.  With the summer season beginning, I wanted to update our rough ...

The first milestone in bringing states customization to Team Services is here. With the latest deployment, you can customize the states on your inherited work item types. Let’s jump into the new functionality. Adding custom states Adding new states starts from the process administration page. Here you can view all the states for a work item typ...

Recently, we announced MSTest Framework support for .NET Core RC2 / ASP.NET Core RC2 - this is "MSTest V2" as we fondly call it, and the release sets the direction for how we intend to evolve the MSTest framework. First, some context ... In Visual Studio we have an open and extensible test platform with tests being written using various test frame...

In September 2016, Team Services will be ending support for Internet Explorer 9 and 10.  If you use Internet Explorer 9 or 10 to connect to Team Services, you will notice a new banner reminding you that support will end in September.  Although we will not explicitly block IE9 and 10, you may see a degraded or broken experience starting in September...

Simple Java static analysis tools In addition to working on the SonarQube integration, we received feedback from some of you that you would like the Maven and Gradle tasks to perform static analysis using common Java tools such as PMD, CheckStyle, and FindBugs. These tools are also supported though SonarQube plug-ins, and most of their rules are a...

SonarQube analysis for Java In October, we updated the Maven task to support SonarQube analysis (See The Maven build task now simplifies SonarQube analysis). This time, we are pleased to announce an updated Gradle task which makes it easy for Java developers using Gradle to trigger a SonarQube analysis in Visual Studio Team Services. Using the Gr...

We are pleased to announce the new Integrate with Sonatype Nexus extension available from the Visual Studio Marketplace for Team Services and Team Foundation Server (TFS). This extension adds a build which task makes it easy to upload your build artifacts to your Nexus Server as part of your Team Services or Team Foundation Server (TFS) build.  Th...

We are pleased to announce the new Integrate with IBM UrbanCode Deploy extension available from the Visual Studio Marketplace for Team Services / Team Foundation Server (TFS). This extension allows you to very easily deploy your Team Services / Team Foundation Server (TFS) build artifacts to your UrbanCode Deploy server using the IBM UrbanCode Dep...

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.

We set a goal two years ago to make Visual Studio Team Services a truly global service. This goal has been driven by our commitment to provide the best performance and data sovereignty to our all of our customers around the world. Today, we are taking the next step on this journey by opening our 5th Geo presence in Brazil (Sao Paulo State). Brazil ...