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Visual Studio 2013 Release Candidate now available for download

September 9th, 2013
I am extremely pleased to announce the availability of Visual Studio 2013 release candidate for download.  This release includes new tools for line of business applications, Web applications, games, mobile devices, services and of course applications targeting our latest platform Windows 8.1.** **With the Visual Studio 2013 Release ...

Releasing a Planning Poker Application and multi sprint burn down chart

August 14th, 2013
The ALM MVPs were busy today as they released two different tools designed to help agile teams work better.   Sprint Burndown+ The first tool is a visual studio gallery extension called Sprint Burndown+. This extension enables development teams to view all their #sprints on a single timeline. Sprint Burndown plus not only shows all ...

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

August 2nd, 2013
While i hate simply echoing other blog posts…This one was too important to not cover. The ALM Virtual Machine (which most people refer to as the “Keller VM”) is probably the single most important Microsoft ALM training tool – used both by internal and external trainers.  Today Brian Keller(on his way to his honeymoon!!) just ...

XAML UI Responsiveness tool in Visual Studio 2013

July 11th, 2013
(Posting for a team mate and friend Pratap Lakshman)   From the perspective of interaction-performance applications need to be “fast” and “fluid” - fast to launch, to navigate between pages, to react to changes in orientation, and fluid in scrolling, in panning and in animations. This post introduces the XAML UI Responsiveness tool...

Energy Consumption tool in Visual Studio 2013

July 10th, 2013
(Posting for a team mate: Shiv Prashant Sood) Battery draining applications result in bad customer experience and poor ratings. Optimal battery usage is an important aspect that a developer must consider. This post introduces the Energy Consumption tool, a new tool in the Visual Studio Performance and Diagnostics hub that enables you to ...

Testing Improvements in Team Foundation Service Update for TechEd 2013

June 4th, 2013
As Brian said we have made a ton of improvements for Testers with the Team Foundation Service released during TechEd.  In looking at the last two sprints in TFS I see over 14 new features! Many of these features are self explanatory but thought i would high light some my favorites! Add/rename/delete new attachments, ...

Announcing the ability to Test Windows Phone 8 applications with Experitest SeeTest

May 17th, 2013
For testing Heterogeneous and mobile environments we have relied on world class partners. SeeTest from Experitest now enables Microsoft developers test mobile applications inc WIndowsPhone8, iOS, Android and Blackberry. Experitest is a recognized leader in mobile testing and touts several powerful benefits with the latest release of SeeTest...

Enabling seamless integration with Team Foundation Server, Microsoft Test Professional and HP ALM with Opshub v5.3

May 16th, 2013
*Today I am happy to announce that in addition to the bi-direction synchronization between the HP ALM - TFS systems, OpsHub’s newest release v5.3 has added integration with test case management and tracking features. * **Easy 3 step configuration ** (image)    (image)   (image) OpsHub Integration Manager (OIM) provides for easy ...

Content Index for Visual Studio Web Tests and Load Tests

March 28th, 2013

New tool for converting test lists to Visual Studio 2012 Playlists

March 15th, 2013
One of the requests we have heard upon the introduction of test Playlists in Visual Studio Update 2 was a tool for converting Visual Studio 2010 test lists to the new Playlists format…Well it turns a developer, Rolf Huisman, at one of our “go to” ALM Partners InfoSupport wrote and and released one Codeplex!    To use it: 1...