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Using a Visual Studio Web Test for availability monitoring in Application Insights

Charles Sterling November 22, 2013 Nov 22, 2013 11/22/13

I am just wrapping up a week at the MVP Summit and one of the System Center MVPs asked me to walk him through creating a Web Test in Visual Studio and using it for Availability monitoring…Of course i promised to do this and as with most good intentions we ran out of time! I am hoping this blog post will make up for the fact we couldn...

First public drill down of Application Insights at DevTeach Vancouver

Charles Sterling November 16, 2013 Nov 16, 2013 11/16/13

For the folks going to the largest developer conference in Canada, DevTeach; you are in for a real treat as you will be first people on the planet to see Application Insights in anger as the DevTeach organizers have graciously added a session for this exciting new topic. Unfortunately due to a family emergency i won’t ...

Announcing Application Insights Preview

Charles Sterling November 13, 2013 Nov 13, 2013 11/13/13

Many folks have noticed I had practically stopped blogging. I have been working on one of the products Brian announced at the launch: Application Insights and as this service wasn’t in preview until today have not been able to blog about it. For those of you that weren’t able to make the launch, Application Insights is a set of ...

Visual Studio 2013 RC ALM courses available from training partner Quicklearn

Anisha Pindoria September 13, 2013 Sep 13, 2013 09/13/13

One of the ALM MVPs Anthony Borton (TFS Instructor) has created an entire set of courses around Visual Studio 2013…and one of the nicest things about his courses you can attend either virtually or in person!Here is more information about these courses: *********************************************************** The Release ...

Creating Fence Environments using Team Foundation Server 2013 Preview Lab Management can put Lab Environment in “Not Ready” state

Anisha Pindoria July 22, 2013 Jul 22, 2013 07/22/13

This issue can occur if the guest OS is Windows 2012 R2 Preview. Workaround: Install Agents for the Lab Environment once. It should fix the problem. Cause: When the test agent is installed and configured, by default it enables firewall exception for tcp port 6910 in privateand current profiles. If the guest OS is Windows ...

VS ALM Lab management Frequently Asked Questions

Saranath Aravamudhan July 17, 2013 Jul 17, 2013 07/17/13

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Load testing with Team Foundation Service – Launching Preview and Early Adoption Program

Anisha Pindoria June 26, 2013 Jun 26, 2013 06/26/13

As announced with Visual Studio 2013 launch, cloud based load testing with Visual studio Online is in Commercial Preview. This is open to all Visual Studio Online users. You can read more about it here.Getting Started links Usage limits and Early Adoption ProgramAll users of Team Foundation Service will be able to run load tests on ...

Why does Visual Studio 2013 display “Visual Studio 2010” in the Test settings dialog

Anisha Pindoria June 17, 2013 Jun 17, 2013 06/17/13

Had a question come up today on one of the distribution lists: Why does the Data and Diagnostics adapter reference Visual Studio 2010 even in Visual Studio 2013? Turns out this dialogue is trying to convey that this is the old way or the “Visual Studio 2010” way of static code coverage where users need to ...

Part 3: Unit testing with Traits and code coverage in Visual Studio 2012 using the TFS Build – and the new NuGet adapter approach

Anisha Pindoria June 11, 2013 Jun 11, 2013 06/11/13

The Unit Testing series by one of the ALM MVPs Terje Sandstrom has been some of the highest read posts on the ALM blog…In this post he shows how to easily provide unit Test Adapters from NuGet. Thanks for the Great Post Terje! ********************************************************** This is the 3rd post in a series on Unit ...

Microsoft Test Manager: Customization of test result fields and marking test results as NA

Anisha Pindoria June 5, 2013 Jun 5, 2013 06/5/13

As part of the MTM enhancements in the Visual Studio Update 2, we introduced a feature to customize the test result analysis fields like 'Resolution' and 'Failure type'. Different projects may have different reporting needs and this feature lets you do just that. You can customize the values that appear in these fields based on your ...

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