Charles Sterling

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Team Foundation Server 2013 Update 2 and Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 Release Candidate now available

April 2nd, 2014
This final release of Team Foundation Server 2013 Update 2 and release candidate of Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 has over 100 new features and over 30 in JUST in the ALM space alone!  As many already know the developer division is now continually adding features to Visual Studio and these quarterly updates are our chance to both fix issues ...

Application Insights at the Danish Developer Conference April 30th

March 31st, 2014
If you happen to be in Denmark April 30th and looking for some great content one of the XAML MVPs will be doing a session on Application Insights…including best practices on how they instrumented the Windows Store Build Application. Thanks Thomas!   A look at Application Insight Application Insight er en relativ ny teknologi fra ...

Next best thing to being at Build (Build Application)

March 31st, 2014
I am getting ready for Build and realized I wanted an easy way to view, search and add sessions to my schedule…Luckily the the folks at BlueFragments have created this Application! Of course this application is entirely instrumented with Application Insights – which I will be demoing at the Build conference! See you there!   (image...

Installing the Application Insights tools for Visual Studio could win you cool prizes at Build

March 27th, 2014
This year not only am I lucky enough to go to Build but I am going down with a bunch of cool prizes such as the new Arc Mice (I have been trying to get one of these since Christmas!!) or a Premium Turtle Beach Xbox One (noise canceling!) Gaming Headset Which begs the question:  “How do I get one!?””: (image) (image)       Day ...

Step by Step walk through of getting Application Insights Up and running

March 21st, 2014
I am continually amazed the lengths that our MVPS go out of their way to help the community. At the last MVP summit one of the System Center MVPs, Kevin Greene, heard from his peers that there wasn’t a great walk through for getting stared with Application Insights.  Rather than waiting for us he rolled up his sleeves and did his own...

Free and great value ALM training on the West Coast

March 19th, 2014
My buddy Steve is back out on the road doing what he does best –preaching about best practices in the ALM space.  Northwest Cadence Complementary Webcast/Training events: Northwest Cadence In-Person events Northwest Cadence Training Offerings:   (image) ​Steven...

Webinar: Cloud based performance, load, & stress testing March 20th

March 17th, 2014
We received a lot of requests to redo the the load test Webinar…That being the case we have two more sessions:  Thursday, March 20, 2014, 9:00 a.m. PST Not certain why the abstract was removed the invitation pages but here is what Manas and I will be going over: With the introduction of Visual Studio Online launched in ...

March 6th Quality Enablement Webinar: Testing Lean from Planning to Production

March 3rd, 2014
In San Francisco last week i was able to chat with our director for Test in the ALM team, Mark Mydland, about how we changed our testing teams and behaviors to work with today's faster release cadences and agile practices…Was a great talk that that folks there really enjoyed.  Based on the rave feedback, Mark will be redelivering his ...

A Lap around Application Insights in Brisbane Australia March 18th and 21st and Adelaide March 19th

February 28th, 2014
If you are in Australia looking for the latest ALM training and content Anthony Borton, ALM MVP and founder of EnhanceALM and will be on the road showing off Application Insights.  His presentation, A Lap around Application Insights, can been seen at the BNE .NET Users Group (18th), the Adelaide .NET Users Group (19th) and the QLD ALM ...

Usage monitoring with Application Insights JavaScript SDK Update

February 21st, 2014
Posting on the behalf of Bret Grinslade.  If you want to know more or meet Bret he will also be doing a talk on this topic at TechED 2014. *****************************   We have posted an update to the JavaScript SDK for Usage.  Going forward, any time you get the JavaScript snippet from the Keys & Downloads page it will be with...