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CodeLens in Visual Studio Online is now in Public Preview

December 11th, 2014
Update: Added a Troubleshooting section. Introduction CodeLens is a heads-up display in your Visual Studio Editor where you can find information about your code in-context. (image)   We had enabled CodeLens in Visual Studio Online for select customers as a Limited CTP in Nov 2014. We have evaluated the performance & scale ...

CodeLens in Visual Studio Online enabled as a Limited CTP

November 12th, 2014
Update: Added a troubleshooting section.IntroductionCodeLens is a heads-up display in your Visual Studio Editor where you can find information about your code in-context. (image) CodeLens has now been enabled in Visual Studio Online for select customers as a Limited CTP.  Pre-requisites If you meet these pre-requisites, you can ...

CodeLens Processing pipeline performance improvements

July 6th, 2014
Introduction CodeLens is a heads-up display in your Visual Studio Editor where you can find information about your code in-context. See this MSDN article for an introduction to CodeLens - Get history and other info about your code. In a previous blog post, I had described the CodeLens Team Indicators – Processing Pipeline. I recommend, you...

CodeLens Team Indicators – Processing Pipeline

May 23rd, 2014
IntroductionCodeLens is a heads-up display in your Visual Studio Editor where you can find information about your code in-context. See this MSDN article for an introduction to CodeLens - Get history and other info about your code.You can use the CodeLens Indicators to quickly identify the changes that have happened on the code and the authors ...

Content Index for Coded UI Test

December 30th, 2012
I have been collecting various resources related to Coded UI Test since its release. I have updated this Content Index for features we released in Visual Studio 2012 Update 1. Check it out - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mathew_aniyan/archive/2010/02/11/content-index-for-coded-ui-test.aspx  Mathew AniyanProgram Manager – Visual ...

Publishing test results through command line test runner

December 6th, 2012
Generally, a subset of tests are executed as part of a build as Build Verification Tests. You may want to run the full set of automated tests on a local machine and publish them to a TFS build. You can then get cumulative report of all tests run for that particular build. Alternately, you may have other standalone systems which execute ...

Implementing Traits in custom Visual Studio Test Adapters

December 4th, 2012
Terje Sandstrom has written two excellent blogs on using Traits in Visual Studio Test Explorer. How to manage unit tests in Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 : Part 1–Using Traits in the Unit Test Explorer Part 2–Using Traits with different test frameworks in the Unit Test Explorer In this blog, I will describe how you can implement Traits ...

Writing a Visual Studio 2012 Unit Test Adapter

July 31st, 2012
Visual Studio 2012 comes with an extensible Unit Test Framework. Many of your favorite Unit Test frameworks (xUnit.Net, nUnit..) already have built adapters to Visual Studio.  Peter Provost maintains a list of adapters here.  If you have another unit test framework you like, you can build an adapter super easy. In this article, I will walk ...

Javascript Unit Tests on Team Foundation Service with Chutzpah

July 9th, 2012
Significant investments were made in Visual Studio 2012 Unit Testing to make it extensible. A number of frameworks and test runners have built adapters for Visual Studio. Peter Provost maintains a list of Plugins here. For Javascript Unit Testing in Visual Studio, Matthew Mannela has released Chutzpah, an open source Javascript Test Runner.  ...

UI Test Plugin for Silverlight Applications

July 8th, 2012
Using the Microsoft Visual Studio UI Test plugin for Silverlight, you can create Coded UI Tests or action recordings for Silverlight applications. Action recordings let you fast forward through steps in a manual test using Microsoft Test Manager. Coded UI Tests let you record actions, generate code and play back user interface tests using ...