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The Microsoft Monitoring Agent allows you to collect reliability performance data and exception data for web applications. You can use IntelliTrace to review this data, or debug this data to get more useful information. In this post I am using MMA Standalone, as opposed to MMA connected to AppInsights or System Center. One of my colleagues deploye...

In order to ship a great quality app to the Store, it is essential that you test it and flush out the bugs. End to end scenario tests when automated can help you ensure that any regressions in the app are caught early. With Visual Studio 2013 Update 2, you can now write automated end-to-end tests for your app using Coded UI Test. In Visual Studi...

[Update: The technique described below is only valid for Agent-Based release templates. To achieve similar behavior for vNext release templates, follow the instructions from the article Trigger Release from build with Release Management for Visual Studio 2013 Update 3.]   Visual Studio Release Management 2013 Update 2 RC release ships w...

James Beeson, Alan Wills - Our group runs about 20 web applications, serving a community of about 100k users spread around the world. Since we started using Application Insights, we’ve found we have a much clearer view of our applications’ performance, and as a result, our users are seeing better performing and more useful apps. This post tells yo...

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 servers ...

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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.You can recover by using ReleaseManagementConsoleAdjustConfigFile.exe, a new command line tool included with VS update...

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 Configuration RSA...

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 stop it...