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UPDATED: Oct 2, 2015 Last month we knocked two items off this list.  You can read about these new features here: https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/news/2015-sep-18-vso More is coming in the next few sprints, stay tuned... - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - This post details some of the agile project management improvemen...

UPDATE (2/1/16) : Package management is now available in Europe and Australia! Install from the VS Marketplace here. UPDATE (11/21/15) : The package management extension for Visual Studio Team Services is now available in the new Visual Studio Marketplace here.  It's only supported in the us-region right now Today, I’m happy to announce the n...

Note: a more recent documentation is available from Analyzing with SonarQube Extension for VSTS/TFS [Update Sept 11, 2015:  fixing broken links, Thanks Terje!, and adding a Previous post / Next postsection at the end of the post] _ As you may be aware, we have been working with SonarSource to integrate SonarQube with MSBuild, Team Foundation Ser...

Do you plan to upgrade your Visual Studio Team Foundation Server? Here are a few discussions and checklists to help you with the planning: You can find more information here: Upgrade your deployment to the latest version of TFS. As always we need your candid feedback. Please feel free to post your questions to the checklist post(...

[Updated August 28th 2015]: If you are using Visual Studio Online, you now have a simpler way of analyzing your .Net code leveraging the Build Tasks for SonarQube Analysis   Release of MSBuild.SonarQube.Runner 1.0 As you might recall, we announced back in April at the //build conference that we were working with SonarSource to provide a bet...

Back in May, we began explaining our roadmap for process customization on Visual Studio Online (VSO).  In this post, I want to share the progress we’ve made and give an update on our overall plans. Customization rollout plan Process customization features will be delivered on the same cadence as the rest of the service, with new functionality ligh...

The ‘Test Release Management Guidance’, since its first release in early 2012, has been a great resource that lays down guidance about important questions pertinent to Manual Test Planning, such as: Today, I’m excited to announce a new version of this guide, that, in addition to focusing on the core aspects of test planning, also touches u...

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...

I’d like to start this blog post with a quick introduction.  I’m Paul Barham and have been working at Microsoft only 7 short weeks but have over 25 years of software development experience ranging from teaching at the university level, to being a lead software developer and architect, to being a manager over 30+ person development teams for st...