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Visual Studio Marketplace is moving to a new markdown parser

September 13, 2017 Sep 13, 2017 09/13/17

Divya Vaishnavi

Visual Studio Marketplace is moving its markdown parser to markdown-it which is based on the CommonMark specification. If you are a Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) extension publisher, this would impact formatting of your extension markdown content and thus its presentation to marketplace users. Impacted extension content is...

Visual Studio Team Services Encryption at Rest

September 5, 2017 Sep 5, 2017 09/5/17

Aaron Hallberg

Customers interested in ensuring the highest level of protection for their data stored in Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) often ask about our ability to encrypt their data at rest. To meet these organizational security and compliance requirements, our goal is to fully encrypt all customer data in VSTS. Toward that end, over the past several...

Wiki supports HTML tags, anchor links, and much more

September 5, 2017 Sep 5, 2017 09/5/17

Sandeep Chadda (MSFT)

It has been exactly 2 months since Wiki went live on VSTS. Wiki is also available in TFS 2018 RC1 now. We have received tons of great feedback and we also learnt a lot from usage patterns. I wanted to talk about some of our learnings and the improvements in Wiki. If you are just starting with Wiki, then you can read my first blog on Wiki...

Managing Release Notifications

September 4, 2017 Sep 4, 2017 09/4/17

Shashank Bansal

When you are configuring continuous deployment pipelines for your team, it becomes essential to keep the team members informed about the progress of releases and the related action items. We had started preview of the release notifications feature that integrates the configuration of release related notifications with the default notification...

How to perform Lab management operations in Build and Release.

September 4, 2017 Sep 4, 2017 09/4/17

Ashok Kirla

As you are already aware, we announced the plan for deprecating XAML builds sometime back. TFS 2018 RC1 is now available and with that XAML builds are no longer supported. Consequently, Lab Management and automated testing capabilities in Microsoft Test Manager (MTM) are no longer supported starting from TFS 2018 RC1. In TFS 2015, we ...

Upgrade to MSTest V2!

September 1, 2017 Sep 1, 2017 09/1/17

Pratap Lakshman

MSTest V2 has crossed 1 Million downloads. Congratulations! Hats off to the community! MSTest V2 is seeing robust usage. We ourselves use it heavily. If you are still using an earlier version of the MSTest framework, we encourage you to upgrade. (image) We have looked at the uptake of MSTest V2 from the perspective of two constituencies, ...

Git forks now in public preview

September 1, 2017 Sep 1, 2017 09/1/17

Matt Cooper

Forks - the ability to create a server-side copy of a Git repository - is rolling out across Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) and available in TFS 2018 RC1 as a public preview. In VSTS, you won't have to do anything to turn it on, it'll be available by default. If it's not on for you yet, it will be after the current deployment finishes. [...