Last week the Visual Studio product owner Sam Guckenheimer keynoted the Agile 2014 Conference. In his presentation he went through our teams changes/learning's to adopt a DevOps workflow. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to attend as we had several conferences here in Redmond/Seattle but luckily we can check it out online here: KEYNOTE...
We are pleased to announce that the v1.4 flight of the TFS Planning and DR Avoidance Guide has firmly landed, after Bill Heys completed the copy editing and the product owner has given us the “thumbs up”. what’s included? The latest guidance includes practical guidance for three main scenarios: … and lots more in the everything ...
You no longer have to install any agent on your server to use the fast diagnostic log search in Application Insights. You simply add Application Insights to your app project, together with an adapter for your favorite logging platform. Your log events are sent to the portal, where you can query them as you like, and get quickly to the root of any p...
The content of this blog is applicable if you are using Team Foundation Server 2012 Update 4 with System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2. Problem: When you try to import a virtual machine or template to Team Foundation Server library using Microsoft Test Manager(MTM), import wizard throws 'Object reference not set to an instance of an o...
As you adopt Visual Studio Online (VSO) and assign licenses to your users you may want to assign the “Eligible MSDN Subscriber” license type to team members. MSDN subscriptions are purchased outside of VSO and assigned to individual users. Before an MSDN subscriber can log in to VSO as an eligible MSDN subscriber, the subscription process must firs...
I am lucky enough to get to work with the authors of, Adopting Agile Software Practices: From Backlog to Continuous Feedback, Sam Guckenheimer and Neno Loje on a regular basis. So when they mentioned the possibility of posting on the ALM Blog one of their chapters as a sample I instantly said YES!! Unfortunately getting back and actua...
Introduction CodeLens has been a blockbuster feature in Visual Studio 2013. Consistently it is listed among the best loved features for the release. We continue to work on it and in Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 CTP2 , we are releasing a new indicator called Incoming Changes. To recap, CodeLens is a heads-up display in your Visual...
This issue occurs when you try to create a lab environment using a machine and another environment creation is in progress using the same machine. Cause : While environment creation is happening "TestAgentInstaller" service gets created, which does automatic agent install and configure, once these operations are done it gets self destructed...
The ALM Rangers are pleased to announce the landing of the Visual Studio Unit Test Generator v1. Looking for unit test code generation? The Visual Studio Unit Test Generator helps to increase developer productivity by decreasing the setup work involved in creating new unit tests. It takes away the routine test creation tasks allowing a developer ...
