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Ask a room of developers what is the first concept that they think of when they think about debugging and most of them will say: breakpoints. That is why with Visual Studio 2015 we significantly improved the ability to configure breakpoints with conditions and actions. Given how easy it is now to configure breakpoints, we know you’ll be more ...

I'm excited to announce Release Management for Visual Studio 2013 Update 4. This update includes several new features and performance updates that will make it easier than ever to deploy your app from development through to production. This update is the latest in a cumulative series of feature additions and bug fixes for Release Management. ...

Summary You have downloaded the Release Management for Visual Studio client, and are connected to either your Visual Studio Online account or to an on-premises Release Management Sever. You have created environments (either imported your Azure environments or created on-premises) to be used in the various stages of your release template. Now you...

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 exten...

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 them. W...

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 previous ...

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 your a...

Application Insights Tools 2.1 comes pre-installed in the Visual Studio 2013 Update 3, released last month. When you create a new project with it, analytics reports appear in the new Microsoft Azure Preview portal, instead of the older Visual Studio Online portal. Existing projects are unaffected. The user experience in the Azure portal is complete...

Microsoft Azure makes it easy to set up VMs to use as servers in your environment. Azure adds your VMs to cloud services. You'll need a Microsoft Azure account to create your VMs. If you don't have one yet, sign up here. In Release Management, you'll create an Azure environment for each release stage. You then link your environment to a cloud servi...

 One of the members of our happy ALM Family, Stuart Preston, did a great post on setting up Application Insights to an Application running from behind the firewall. Thanks Stuart!! ****************************Microsoft Application Insights: Connecting from “behind the firewall”Working with Visual Studio Application Insights re...