One of the ALM MVPs, Anthony Borton, did a great video on how to setup Continuous Integration Build and Continuous Testing with Visual Studio 2015. If you are considering configuring and playing with Continuous Testing this video is a must watch! Thanks Anthony! *******************************************   This presentation focuses on the...

I have been meaning to write a post on deploying Azure Web Sites from a build in either Visual Studio Online or Team Foundation Server for while when i noticed one of our star ALM MVPs, Jakob Ehn, has already done one. Republishing with his consent. Thanks Jakob!   Original post and more great ALM content can be found on Jakob’s bl...

One of the primary efforts of the ALM Development team is to provide  tooling that enables DevOps workflows. The new Build system shared by both Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio Online is a cornerstone to that effort. So it is great news one of the ALM MVPs, Esteban Garcia, and world class training partners, Pluralsight, have joine...

Visual Studio Online recently  announced a new build system that offers a heterogonous capable platform that can easily build or integrate almost any existing asset and be extended to add new ones.  (For more information about this announcement please see Chris Build session: https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/BRK3726 ) One of the Archi...

( Editor’s note: Posting this for Clemri who is busy releasing a bunch of cool new DevOps news at the at the Velocity conference -Chuck)   The O’Reilly Velocity conference is one of the leading conferences for DevOps practitioners. This year the event is in California, May 28-29. If you plan to be at Velocity, come see us on the expo floor in B...

If you missed Ignite or Build and live in Ottawa then you are in luck! A lot of that great content can be found at the Ottawa Dev Day May 30th. …While i have included their entire session list below i have to call out my favorite topic Cloud Load Testing will be there! Introduction to Cloud Load Testing Since November of 2012 when Cloud based L...

Just had one me my best MVPs send the event logs and memory dump of a Visual Studio Issue he ran into…It is no wonder I love these guys. Unfortunately he sent these logs to the entire development team….of which only a small % work on the shell.   While I still love the guy I also wanted to point out there is a far better (and much easier) way to ...

What an amazing day.  Today we announced the release candidate to Visual Studio 2015..and it has a ton of new features.  If you haven’t already seen the news make sure and check out the following resources: In addition to downloading Visual Studio 2015 Release Candidate (RC), .NET Framework 4.6, Team Foundation Server 2015 RC, and Visual S...

After my last post on upcoming ALM Webinars i received a bunch of emails about other great ALM and DevOps events…So i spent some time putting them in chronological order. Hope this helps next time you are considering re-watching an old series on Netflix or increasing your knowledge about emerging trends in the DevOps space. ALM Webinars ...

The warm weather in Seattle has definitely seems to have had an effect on everything!  My feature team (Load Test) is ahead of schedule, the flower gardens are in full bloom and and the folks at Northwest Cadence seem to be ON FIRE with over 20 ALM and DevOps events for people to attend. With Dan, Rennie and Steve (one of the all time best Tec...