September 2017

Using the latest NuGet in your build

September 29, 2017 Sep 29, 2017 09/29/17

Alex Mullans

NuGet (both the command-line tool and the accompanying tools built into Visual Studio) continues to iterate rapidly and add support for new .NET Core and .NET Standard target frameworks, among other improvements. Naturally, many users of Team Build in Visual Studio Team Services want to build those apps, and we've seen some support issues ...

Chef brings Habitat to VSTS, and Agile Extensions makes editing your backlog a breeze

September 29, 2017 Sep 29, 2017 09/29/17

Joe Bourne

This month I have two extensions that I am excited about. Chef, who earlier this year released their core set of CI/CD tasks for working with Chef, is adding a new extension that connects VSTS with their app & container automation system, Habitat. Agile Extensions is also making an early splash in the Marketplace with the newest awesome ...

Burndown and Burnup Widgets available for the VSTS Analytics Extension

September 25, 2017 Sep 25, 2017 09/25/17

Gregg Boer

UPDATE 10/06/2017. The S123 Deployment is complete. The Burndown / Burnup widgets are now available for all accounts. === The Burndown and Burnup Widgets are now available for those who have installed the Analytics Extension on their Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) accounts. (NOTE: The S123 Deployment should be completed by the end of ...

DevOps sessions at Microsoft Ignite 2017

September 23, 2017 Sep 23, 2017 09/23/17

Anisha Pindoria

Microsoft Ignite is happening next week in Orlando, and we are really excited to be there! Microsoft Ignite is an IT Professional and Developer conference that happens yearly, with over 700+ sessions, insights, roadmaps and live demos from the products you use every day. The Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) team will be there and you don’t...

Remembering How We Should Manage Open Source

September 22, 2017 Sep 22, 2017 09/22/17

Sam Guckenheimer

A DevSecOps best practice is root cause analysis, so that we can learn from live site incidents and prevent their recurrence. Equifax made news recently with the exfiltration of data from half the US population. This is a sobering opportunity to look at the root cause. The Equifax attack used Apache Struts, a popular open source project for ...

What’s new in TFS 2017 Update 3 RC

September 20, 2017 Sep 20, 2017 09/20/17

Alex Nichols

The Release Candidate (RC) of Team Foundation Server 2017 Update 3 is now available. It is a go-live release and fully supported for production use. This release includes bug fixes for TFS 2017 since Update 2, many of which resulted from technical support case resolutions and Developer Community problem reports. You'll see fixes across the ...

Visual Studio Team Services is in Canada!

September 18, 2017 Sep 18, 2017 09/18/17

Aaron Hallberg

In 2014, we set a goal to make Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) a global service. This is driven by our commitment to provide our customers around the world great performance and compliance with local data sovereignty requirements. Between 2014 and 2016 we announced VSTS instances in Europe, Australia, India, and Brazil. Along the way we ...

Azure DevOps Blog

September 2017 - Azure DevOps Blog