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Open Source Scanning in Visual Studio Team Services with WhiteSource Bolt

March 7, 2017 Mar 7, 2017 03/7/17
Sam Guckenheimer
Most organizations today consume open source software in their development projects. The reuse of components enables great productivity gains. However, this practice has an unintended consequence: you can reuse security vulnerabilities or violate licenses without realizing the risk. I wrote about this in an article in MSDN Magazine on Rugged ...

New Git Features in Visual Studio 2017

March 6, 2017 Mar 6, 2017 03/6/17
Kayla Ngan (MSFT)
We've added new Git features to Visual Studio 2017 that allow you to do more of your end-to-end workflow without leaving the IDE. You can perform a force push to complete a rebase or push an amended commit, easily view the diff for outgoing commits, unset your upstream branch, and continue patch rebase from VS. Additionally, because we moved ...

How we are improving notifications in Team Services

March 3, 2017 Mar 3, 2017 03/3/17
Will Smythe
Good communication is an essential ingredient to any successful development project. Whether the team is small or large, keeping everyone on the same page and informed as the project progresses helps reduce last minute surprises and ensures a smoother process overall. Notifications, whether they arrive via email, Microsoft Teams, Slack, or ...

Agent-based deployment in Release Management

March 3, 2017 Mar 3, 2017 03/3/17
Roopesh Nair
Release Management now supports robust in-the-box multi-machine deployment. You can now orchestrate  deployments across multiple machines, perform rolling updates while ensuring high availability of the application throughout. Agent based deployment capability relies on the same build and deployment agents. However, unlike the current ...

Visual Studio Marketplace – Publisher Pivot

March 1, 2017 Mar 1, 2017 03/1/17
Harish Kumar Agarwal
Visual Studio Marketplace is the exclusive destination for discovering extensions for Visual Studio IDE, Team Services and Code, and purchasing subscriptions. While consumers of the Marketplace benefit greatly from it, we want our publishers to have a great experience too. After all, it is they who make the Marketplace rich with real world ...

Team Services February Extensions Roundup

February 28, 2017 Feb 28, 2017 02/28/17
Joe Bourne
February is coming to a close and it has been the best month on record for the Team Services Extension ecosystem. We've set new records for customer installs and our community of publishers continues to grow. One of my favorite parts of this job is the relationship I get to build with our publishers. Seeing their investment in the platform ...

MSTest V2 – Now and Ahead

February 25, 2017 Feb 25, 2017 02/25/17
Pratap Lakshman
MSTest V2 has crossed 100K downloads. It has been but just a few months since we shipped it on NuGet. Over this course of time, you have reported issues and given us feedback, and we have tried to address them as fast as we can, refreshing the bits at a feverish pace. We are now at a stage where, as of v1.1.11 MSTest V2 has shed the pre-...

Evolving the Visual Studio Test Platform – Part 4: Together, in the Open

February 12, 2017 Feb 12, 2017 02/12/17
Pratap Lakshman
[This is the 4th post in a 4-part series on evolving the Visual Studio Test Platform. You can read the earlier parts here: Evolving the Visual Studio Test Platform – Part 3, Evolving the Visual Studio Test Platform – Part 2, Evolving the Visual Studio Test Platform – Part 1] The Test Platform is where it is at thanks to its community...

Our team has acquired the extension, ‘Wiki’ by Agile Extensions, and plan to provide a built-in Wiki experience

February 8, 2017 Feb 8, 2017 02/8/17
Joe Bourne
Wiki has gone to public preview and you can check it out today! https://devblogs.microsoft.com/devops/33855/   (image) We're firm believers that a vibrant extension ecosystem is critical to having a best-in-class DevOps product. Not only does it organically bring new technologies and solutions that our customers are looking for, it ...