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UI Enhancements for IntelliTrace with Visual Studio 2013 Update 2

February 11, 2014 Feb 11, 2014 02/11/14
Wiktor Kopec - MSFT
As announced previously on this blog, with Visual Studio 2013 RTM, we also released the Microsoft Monitoring Agent (MMA) which can produce .itrace files for issues with applications in production. This includes exception information, but also performance event violations. In Visual Studio 2013 Update 2, we continue to improve this experience ...

Jump to SQL with IntelliTrace

February 10, 2014 Feb 10, 2014 02/10/14
Tim Varcak (MSFT)
In Visual Studio 2013, you can use IntelliTrace to view Microsoft Monitoring Agent data collected from a web application. This includes performance details in IntelliTrace which provides a great way to get back to your code to investigate performance issues that occurred on a production server. But what if the performance issue has something ...

How to modify the UpgradeTemplate.xaml to enable releasing from a build

January 31, 2014 Jan 31, 2014 01/31/14
Leo Vildosola
Release Management provides the option to trigger a release from a build. But to use this feature, some additional logic has to be added to the default build process template. You can refer to my previous post on doing this with the default build process templates for TFS 2013. This article details how to make the necessary modifications ...

How to debug Release Management components

December 12, 2013 Dec 12, 2013 12/12/13
Roopesh Nair
  Enable logs on Microsoft Deployment Agent: The first and most easy way to debug why an action/component is failing is to open the logs available through the deployment step of your release within Release Management (RM) client. To do this, open your release, access the View Log section, click on the Details button of the ...

Configuring Release Management to work across untrusted domains

December 12, 2013 Dec 12, 2013 12/12/13
Roopesh Nair
There are times when you will want Release Management (RM) to interact with machines that are not part of the same domain. This post details the steps required to configure RM to work across untrusted domains.  Configuring the Microsoft Deployment Agent  Follow these steps to configure the Release Management Server and the ...

How to modify the TFS 2013 default build process template (GitTemplate.12.xaml & TfvcTemplate.12.xaml) to enable releasing from a build

December 9, 2013 Dec 9, 2013 12/9/13
Leo Vildosola
Release Management provides the option to trigger a release from a build. But to use this feature, some additional logic has to be added to the default build process template. This article details how to make the necessary modifications. If you are currently using the TFS 2013 default build process template If you are using the TFS 2013 ...

Release Management for Visual Studio 2013

November 25, 2013 Nov 25, 2013 11/25/13
Vijay Machiraju
DevOps is an increasingly important part of application lifecycle management and is a growing area of interest as businesses need to develop and deploy quality applications at a faster pace. As part of this increased focus, we’re excited to announce Release Management for Visual Studio 2013, a solution for .NET and Windows Server ...

Announcing Application Insights Preview

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

System Center Performance Alerts and IntelliTrace

October 23, 2013 Oct 23, 2013 10/23/13
Larry Guger
Previously we told you about the initial integration between System Center Operations Manager and Visual Studio IntelliTrace that supports exporting exception data from System Center to Visual Studio using IntelliTrace. We are pleased to announce with the release of System Center 2012 R2 and Visual Studio Ultimate 2013 that performance data ...