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Now Rate and Review extensions on Marketplace!

March 23, 2016 Mar 23, 2016 03/23/16
Harysh Menon
As the number of extensions on the Visual Studio Marketplace grew, we felt the need to have a mechanism to provide feedback and easily differentiate extensions. Today we are glad to announce a Rating and Review system on the Marketplace as the first step in fulfilling that need. (image) (image) (image) The rating for an extension will ...

Using parallel environments and release promotion in test automation

March 23, 2016 Mar 23, 2016 03/23/16
Abhishek Agrawai
I had earlier blogged about how we use Release Management to run our test automation in the RM team. Since then, the RM service or Release Management Online (RMO) has added support for parallel environments (with the Sprint 94 payload (also called M94)), and we have tweaked our automation pipeline to leverage this feature. We now have all ...

Cloud-load testing: rich reports in the web

March 18, 2016 Mar 18, 2016 03/18/16
Prachi Bora (MSFT)
As perf. engineers run load tests, they not only want to analyze a load test run, but also obtain a quick overview of the key metrics, identify problem areas to focus on, view diagnostic information to analyze failures, etc. In addition, when their application changes, they want to compare load test runs to understand if the app changes ...

Bind a Visual Studio solution to a SonarQube project provisions and configures Roslyn analyzers

March 17, 2016 Mar 17, 2016 03/17/16
Jean-Marc Prieur
A few weeks ago, we announced the SonarQube scanner for MSBuild 2.0 supports 3rd party Roslyn analyzers. This has been working for the continuous integration build. In this blog post we are announcing that we have extended this experience to the IDE. You can now bind a Visual Studio solution to a SonarQube project and see Roslyn analyzers ...

Squash: A Whole New Way to Merge Pull Requests

March 15, 2016 Mar 15, 2016 03/15/16
Matthew Mitrik (MS)
Are you the type of developer that loves to keep your repos neat and tidy?  Are you a fan of interactive rebase and fixing up your commits until they're just right?  Do you wish you had an alternative to --no-ff merges when completing your pull request?  In the March 3rd release of Visual Studio Team Services, a new option was added to ...

Visual Studio Team Services – Testing Tools Roadmap

March 10, 2016 Mar 10, 2016 03/10/16
Charles Sterling
Over the last few months, there has been a consistent ask for Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) / Team Foundation Server (TFS) Testing Tools roadmap.  I would like to share our strategic direction, what we have delivered over the last 6 months and where we are headed.  It would be great to get your feedback on what we are doing right and ...

.NET Core Debugging in VS Code

March 10, 2016 Mar 10, 2016 03/10/16
Andrew B Hall - MSFT
The C# extension for Visual Studio Code offers powerful editing and debugging support for .NET Core applications on Windows, Mac, and Linux, including: (image) Getting started To get started you will need to do a few things (see our GitHub page for complete instructions) Working with Console apps If you are working with a console ...

Microsoft Open-sources the Team Explorer Everywhere Eclipse Plugin for Visual Studio Team Services and Team Foundation Server

March 8, 2016 Mar 8, 2016 03/8/16
Paul T. Barham
Microsoft is making available its plugin for Eclipse, Team Explorer Everywhere (TEE), for both Visual Studio Team Services and Team Foundation Server (TFS) as open source software on GitHub. The announcement was made today by Shanku Niyogi, General Manager Developer Division, during the keynote at EclipseCon in Reston, Virginia, when he also ...