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DevOps style deployment in Visual Studio 2015 preview – Sharing deployment configuration with team

November 17, 2014 Nov 17, 2014 11/17/14
Muthukumaran [MSFT]
  While the earlier blog on DevOps style deployment capability touched upon the scenarios for an individual developer, in this blog let’s look at how this experience can be extended to team. You would also want to refer Announcing DevOps style deployments using Visual Studio 2015 Preview and Azure and Brian Keller’s Channel9 Video first...

DevOps style deployment in Visual Studio 2015 preview – A detailed look

November 17, 2014 Nov 17, 2014 11/17/14
Muthukumaran [MSFT]
By now you must be aware about the DevOps style deployment capability that was announced in Visual Studio 2015 preview. If not already, you would want to refer the announcement blog; Announcing DevOps style deployments using Visual Studio 2015 Preview and Azure. Brian Keller’s Channel9 Video is a great place to start to learn more about this...

How to install RM Azure extension and use the Azure VM in Release Management

November 10, 2014 Nov 10, 2014 11/10/14
Ashok Kirla
RM extension enables PowerShell DSC and WMF configuration required for Release Management Server to perform actions on the VM.  By installing RM Extension to Azure VM, the user can add this VM as a vNext Azure Server in Release Management once the corresponding Azure subscription added. Steps to install Visual Studio Release Management Azure...

Application Insights – Metric Explorer – Part 1

November 3, 2014 Nov 3, 2014 11/3/14
Ketan Ghelani [MSFT]
When you drill through many of the charts from the Application Insights overview page, you get to a detailed view that we call Metrics Explorer (ME), which is the focus of this series of blog posts.  In each post of this series, I’ll cover a different set of metrics, explaining what they represent and how to instrument your code to capture ...

Application Insights SDK (0.11.0-prerelease)

October 21, 2014 Oct 21, 2014 10/21/14
Joshua Weber-MSFT
What is it? Application Insights SDK lets you send telemetry to the Application Insights portal, where you can find out what users are doing with your application. 0.11.0 is the latest SDK release for Application Insights. This SDK includes new functionality and new concepts in addition to a change to the API. For information on the ...

Perform diagnostic search across your Application Insights telemetry

October 6, 2014 Oct 6, 2014 10/6/14
Guru Kirthigavasan
In Application Insights, we’ve just upgraded Diagnostic Search so that you can search all the raw telemetry such as page views, as well as the trace log calls that you can insert. This makes it a lot easier to find and follow chains of events in your app. So for example, if you inserted some log4Net, NLog or System.Diagnostics trace calls in...