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New requirement when updating Team Services extensions on the Marketplace

August 24, 2016 Aug 24, 2016 08/24/16
Will Smythe
If you develop extensions for Visual Studio Team Services or Team Foundation Server, there is a new requirement during publishing that you should be aware of: when updating an extension on the Marketplace, the updated extension's version number must be greater than the published extension's version number. To say it another way, you must ...

Upcoming Changes to How You Log into Visual Studio Team Services

August 24, 2016 Aug 24, 2016 08/24/16
Shantaram P
In order to make it easier for you to sign into Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS), we will soon be updating the steps that you will take when you log into your account.  After we’ve made these changes, you will see some new login screens when connect to the service. If you’re using Azure Active Directory (AAD) or Office 365 (O365), these...

Becoming more productive with Git: Tower and Team Services

August 24, 2016 Aug 24, 2016 08/24/16
Ayushman Jain
Posted on behalf of guest blogger: Tobias Günther, CEO Fournova -- Working with Git in Visual Studio Team Services and Team Foundation Server just became even easier: the popular Git desktop client Tower now comes with dedicated integrations for these services. With that, cloning and creating repositories is now just a click away - and ...

User Lifecycle Management Improvements in Visual Studio Team Services

August 23, 2016 Aug 23, 2016 08/23/16
Shantaram P
Today Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) is releasing an update to our service which will bring more of Office 365 and Azure Active Directory (AAD)’s user lifecycle management capabilities to VSTS. With this update, customers using AAD to secure VSTS accounts  can be confident that whenever a user is disabled or deleted within their AAD ...

Testing private/intranet applications using Cloud-based load testing

August 23, 2016 Aug 23, 2016 08/23/16
Deepak.Singhal [MSFT]
Cloud-based Load Testing Service can be used for performance and scale testing of an application by generating load from Azure. This type of load generation can only hit/generate load on an internet/publically accessible application. But we have seen many times customer needs to load test their application which is not publically accessible. ...

Work items now open in the web from Visual Studio ’15’

August 22, 2016 Aug 22, 2016 08/22/16
Dante Santos
If you use work item tracking with Visual Studio '15', you may have noticed that work items now open in a browser window. This change to how you interact with work items allows us to provide you with a number of benefits. One work item experience for all platforms Work items are canvases for discussion and collaboration. With this change, ...

Use cloud load agents on your infrastructure

August 22, 2016 Aug 22, 2016 08/22/16
Deepak.Singhal [MSFT]
This blog talks about how you can configure your own machines (physical/VMs) with Cloud-based Load Testing service to do a load test run. This is primarily useful when you want to load test an application which is not publically accessible. To get more context around this, please refer 'Load testing Applications behind Firewall using Cloud-...

Inside Visual Studio Team Services: Summer Interns and Package Management

August 19, 2016 Aug 19, 2016 08/19/16
Ayushman Jain
Each month, we bring you the insiders view into Visual Studio Team Services - how the product is developed, how we dogfood it and use it every day, who are the people behind it and tips and tricks on becoming a power user This month, we interview our Explorer Interns - Aurélie Pluche, Tracy Tran and Madison Willcox. They're interning with ...

New .NET Core Build Agent on Hosted Pool – Some builds may require reaction

August 18, 2016 Aug 18, 2016 08/18/16
Chris Patterson (MSFT)
Over the course of this year we have been building a new vsts agent on the .NET Core platform. The new agent not only includes a number of new features but it also gives complete feature parity across all of our supported platforms and it is open source. This new agent will ship with the next version of TFS and is the default download from ...

Deploying an Azure Red Hat Linux VM Running Apache Tomcat for use with Visual Studio Team Services and Team Foundation Server

August 18, 2016 Aug 18, 2016 08/18/16
Paul T. Barham
Visual Studio Team Services and Team Foundation Server (TFS) now has at least three mechanisms (i.e. deployment and utility tasks) for deploying to a Linux host or virtual machine (VM).  This walkthrough will show specifically how to setup and configure an Red Hat (v. 7.2) VM on Azure to run Tomcat and other necessary services to support ...