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Free ALM Webinars from Northwest Cadence

February 20th, 2014
Steve and his team is offering a free set of Webinars for the ALM World! Thanks Steve! **Northwest Cadence Complementary Webcast/Training events:****** **Northwest Cadence –in-person events****** Northwest Cadence Training Offerings:   Instructors (image) ​Steven Borg | Northwest Cadence Co-Founder and ...

New CodedUI course from Pluralsight

February 18th, 2014
  One of the ALM MVPs, Marcel de Vries, has been spending a ton of time writing CodeUI Tests.  Thankfully Marcel decided to take this hard earned knowledge and convert it into a class on best practices for Implementing Coded UI testing. (image) Session information below: This course is targeted at Testers and Developers that ...

Run your Coded UI tests against Chrome using the Selenium cross-browser plugin

February 5th, 2014
Had somebody recently asking about running Coded UI Tests against Chrome and thought i would walk through this process: 1. Down load the Cross-browser plugin for Coded UI Test that uses Selenium to run tests against Chrome and Firefox from here: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=267598 (image) 3. Record a Coded UI test in IE...

Free Webinar Scaled Agile Framework and Microsoft Visual Studio ALM Feb 4 11:30 AM PST

January 31st, 2014
Next Tuesday Barry Paquet Agile Coach and certified SAFe Program Consultant (PSC) from InCycle Software will give an introduction to the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and discuss how he has been solving customer’s issues with SAFe and the Visual Studio ALM Tools.   Should be a great show! Starts: Tuesday, February 04, 2014 11:...

New TFS book soon available: Team Foundation Server 2013 Customization

January 21st, 2014
Never ceases to amaze me how some of our community rock stars are able to discover and do so much with almost no contact with the Team Foundation Server development team…And just to make sure this phenomena doesn’t make sense; there also seems to be an inverse relationship with these folks and their remoteness!  In either case from my...

Invitation code for trialing Application Insights

January 13th, 2014
I have had a couple people mention they had submitted a request for an Application Insights invitation code- but they never received a reply. Just wanted to let people know we try and get back to all requests at least by the following business day…So if you didn’t get a reply a spam filter may have gobbled it up! (image) The reason we ...

Announcing: Updated Visual Studio 2013 RTM ALM Virtual Machine + Hands-on-Labs & Demo Scripts

January 9th, 2014
Brian Keller and his crew upgraded the Visual Studio 2013 ALM Virtual Machine today to include the sample content and hands-on-labs / demo scripts which were previously introduced for Visual Studio 2010 and 2012 capabilities. This brings the total number of hands-on-labs and demo scripts which work with this VM to 24. You can find the full ...

Implementing custom events in Application Insights

December 18th, 2013
Application Insights Usage reports can supply an incredible wealth of information by simply adding a single line of JavaScript. Such as how many people visit a page, what browsers are they using, what operating systems they are using, where are they visiting from etc etc etc –but this doesn’t tell the entire story.  For instance, ...

Announcing Team Foundation Server Administration Tool

December 15th, 2013
We are pleased to announce that the TFS Administration Tool 2.3 has been updated support Team Foundation Server 2013 and the Team Foundation Server 2013 object model so it can be installed on machines running either the stand-alone object model or Visual Studio 2013. This release now supports SharePoint groups/roles. http://tfsadmin.codeplex....

Announcing Visual Studio 2013 Virtual Machine with Application Lifecycle Management Hands-on-Labs and Demo Scripts

December 11th, 2013
The Visual Studio 2013 RTM ALM Virtual Machine is available for download along with 4 hands-on-labs / demo scripts which introduce some of the new ALM capabilities which have been added in this release. The 4 hands-on-labs take a scripted approach towards learning this content. These labs double as demo scripts in case you want to show off ...