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Marketplace Search now available for Visual Studio

March 4, 2016 Mar 4, 2016 03/4/16
Harysh Menon
We launched search on Visual Studio Marketplace for Visual Studio Team Services and Visual Studio Code last month. But at the time we were still redirecting to Visual Studio Gallery when searching in the Visual Studio product context. Today we are glad to announce that search is now available for the Visual Studio product context as well. (...

Linking Work Items to Git Branches, Commits, and Pull Requests

March 2, 2016 Mar 2, 2016 03/2/16
Matthew Mitrik (MS)
If you're a developer working on a team that uses Git, you're probably using some form of topic branching to isolate your work.  If you're using any of the Agile tools in Visual Studio Team Services, you probably also have a bug, task, or user story that's tracking your development work.  Until recently, the best way to keep these items ...

Running Apache JMeter based load tests in the cloud – how to

February 27, 2016 Feb 27, 2016 02/27/16
Prachi Bora (MSFT)
Sometime ago, we announced that the cloud-based load testing service in Visual Studio Team Services could be used to run Apache JMeter based load tests. We are happy to let you know that this feature is now publicly available and you can try it out using your Team Services account. This is a quick how-to to help you get started. Essentials: ...

Pull Request integration in IntelliJ and Android Studio

February 24, 2016 Feb 24, 2016 02/24/16
Madhuri Gummalla
The Visual Studio Team Services plugin for IntelliJ and Android Studio now has support for pull requests! This feature is part of a series of essential developer workflows our Java teams are planning to enable in IntelliJ (and IDEs based on it like Android Studio, PhpStorm, WebStorm etc.). This post has more details on some of our plans. In...

SonarQube Scanner for MSBuild v2.0 released: support for third-party Roslyn analyzers

February 18, 2016 Feb 18, 2016 02/18/16
Aaron Hallberg
We are pleased to announce that SonarSource has officially released version 2.0 of the SonarQube Scanner for MSBuild and version 4.5 of the SonarQube C# Plugin. The release notes for the scanner and plugin list the bugs that were fixed, but the major change is that together these releases provide support for using third-party Roslyn analyzers ...

Impact of new Release Management orchestration features

February 12, 2016 Feb 12, 2016 02/12/16
Vijay Machiraju
We are rolling out a number of orchestration improvements in Release management service. These improvements are explained in the release notes here and here. One of the key features in this release is that you will be able to author more complex release definitions, where the deployments can happen to multiple environments in parallel. You do ...

Using the DebuggerNonUserCode Attribute in Visual Studio 2015

February 12, 2016 Feb 12, 2016 02/12/16
Aaron Hallberg
You can add the DebuggerNonUserCode attribute to your application as a handy way to tell the debugger that you don’t want to debug into specific sections of code. If you haven’t used this attribute previously, this blog post gives a summary of how you can use it as part of your debugging workflow. If you currently use this attribute, ...

Quickly navigate with keyboard

February 12, 2016 Feb 12, 2016 02/12/16
Ewald Hofman (MSFT)
Shortcuts have been in Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) and Team Foundation Server (TFS) for a long time, but not many keyboard shortcuts were available and it was not discoverable. Since a few deployments we have introduced more shortcuts using the MouseTrap open source library. You can now type in keys whenever you are not focused on an ...

Use SonarQube quality gates to control your Visual Studio Team Services builds

February 11, 2016 Feb 11, 2016 02/11/16
Bogdan Gavril
Note: a more recent documentation is available from Analyzing with SonarQube Extension for VSTS/TFS In Visual Studio Team Services and Team Foundation Server you can cause a build to fail if the code does not meet the conditions imposed by a SonarQube quality gate. This post describes how to configure this when using SonarQube 5.3 and earlier...

Monitor Team Services web extensions with Visual Studio Application Insights

February 11, 2016 Feb 11, 2016 02/11/16
Will Smythe
One of the top questions we get from developers building extensions for Visual Studio Team Services is "Are people using my extension"? The Visual Studio Marketplace (launched in November and currently in preview) shows the number of Team Services accounts an extension is installed to, but not the number of people actually using it or how ...