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Visual Studio Release Management 2013 Update 2 RC now available

April 3, 2014 Apr 3, 2014 04/3/14
Vijay Machiraju
We have announced the public availability of Visual Studio Release Management 2013 Update 2 RC today. Besides various minor fixes and enhancements, this release simplifies deployment of your applications to groups of servers, and triggering releases from third party systems. Let us talk about each of these features. Deploying to groups of ...

Create Lab Environment using TFS Lab Management APIs

April 2, 2014 Apr 2, 2014 04/2/14
Subramanyam [MSFT]
using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using System.Threading.Tasks; using Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client; using Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Lab.Client; namespace LabEnvironmentCreation {     classProgram     {         staticvoid ...

Did you uninstall Release Management Server and lose access to the Release Management client?

April 2, 2014 Apr 2, 2014 04/2/14
Tim Elhajj
It can happen. If you uninstall the RM server and a client is still pointing to that server (one that is now no longer available, because you just uninstalled it), you will get this error message the next time you launch the client.(image) You can recover by using ReleaseManagementConsoleAdjustConfigFile.exe, a new command line tool included ...

Need to migrate Release Management Server?

April 2, 2014 Apr 2, 2014 04/2/14
Anand Gaurav
In order to migrate Release Management Server, follow these steps in sequence: 1. Backup existing Release Management server DB. (Learn about How to: Back Up a Database) 2. Export crypto key.  (For more details on the RSA crypto key export, check ‘Exporting an RSA Key Container’ section of Importing and Exporting Protected ...

Deploy automatically to virtual machines in Windows Azure using Visual Studio Release Management

April 2, 2014 Apr 2, 2014 04/2/14
Anand Gaurav
Visual Studio Release Management can be used to achieve continuous deployment to virtual machines in Windows Azure. When configured correctly, Release Management is able to deploy to a VM residing on the cloud just as easily as to a VM hosted locally. This article will explain the steps in order to start a VM on the cloud, deploy to it, and ...

Enhancements to Debugging Exceptions with IntelliTrace in Visual Studio 2013

March 7, 2014 Mar 7, 2014 03/7/14
Nitin Choubey
The Microsoft Monitoring Agent allows you to collect reliability and performance data for web applications and to review the data using IntelliTrace. With Visual Studio 2013 Update 2, we have added the ability to more easily navigate the diagnostics data related to an exception by using a CodeLens-enhanced Code Map view in combination with the...

New CodeLens Indicator–Incoming Changes

March 3, 2014 Mar 3, 2014 03/3/14
Importer
Introduction CodeLens has been a blockbuster feature in Visual Studio 2013. Consistently it is listed among the best loved features for the release. We continue to work on it and in Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 CTP2 , we are releasing a new indicator called Incoming Changes.   To recap, CodeLens is a heads-up display in your ...

TFS Lab Management with multiple SCVMM servers

February 25, 2014 Feb 25, 2014 02/25/14
Willy-P. Schaub
The ALM Rangers recently received a user request to clarify the following concept: “with Team Foundation Server 2013 you can configure a different SCVMM server for each team project collection”. This blog post, created by Richard Fennell, pulls together the discussions with Mathias Olausson, Vijay Machiraju and Richard Fennell from the ALM...

IntelliTrace MVC Navigation

February 12, 2014 Feb 12, 2014 02/12/14
Colin Thomsen - MSFT
The Microsoft Monitoring Agent allows you to collect reliability and performance data for web applications and to review the data using IntelliTrace. For Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate, Update 2, we have added the ability to easily navigate to Actions and Controllers for Model View Controller (MVC) web sites. Let’s examine that ...