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IntelliTrace and WCF Services called by Silverlight

October 16, 2013 Oct 16, 2013 10/16/13
Larry Guger
IntelliTrace is not supported in Silverlight due to the security model. IntelliTrace is supported for Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) projects hosted in a web server such as Internet Information Server (IIS) or Internet Information Server Express (IIS Express). When debugging an application in Visual Studio Ultimate that contains both ...

Tweaking Microsoft Monitoring Agent for Null Values

October 15, 2013 Oct 15, 2013 10/15/13
Larry Guger
The Microsoft Monitoring Agent does a great job of logging unexpected exceptions that occur within your application. NullReferenceExceptions are one of the most frequent types of exceptions that are encountered. The default settings for the Microsoft Monitoring Agent are configured to optimize data collection and does not record null parameter...

Performance Details in IntelliTrace

September 20, 2013 Sep 20, 2013 09/20/13
Larry Guger
As was introduced in the Microsoft Monitoring Agent blog post, the Microsoft Monitoring Agent provides a new capability to monitor IIS hosted applications and record performance violations in your application. Refer to the previous post and this MSDN article for details on using the Microsoft Monitoring Agent for monitoring your application ...

Introducing Microsoft Monitoring Agent

September 20, 2013 Sep 20, 2013 09/20/13
Larry Guger
We are very pleased to announce the RTM version of the brand new Microsoft Monitoring Agent. This new tool incorporates the capabilities introduced with Visual Studio 2012’s IntelliTrace Standalone Collector and adds a ton of new features and capabilities. You can now download the Microsoft Monitoring Agent and install on any server in ...

Start learning the concepts of DevOps & Release Management

September 9, 2013 Sep 9, 2013 09/9/13
Willy-P. Schaub
This blog post has moved to ALM Rangers blog on https://aka.ms/vsarNews4,  where we introduce the solution in combination with the upcoming the Patterns & Practices book “Building a Release Pipeline with TFS ” – it’s a great way to start learning the concepts of DevOps & Release Management for TFS 2012...

Verification step of Standard Environment creation fails with team foundation server Lab Management can give error “Microsoft Test Manager can not install agent on the machine because another environment is being created using the same machine”

September 5, 2013 Sep 5, 2013 09/5/13
Importer
This issue occurs when you try to create a lab environment using a machine and another environment creation is in progress using the same machine. (image)   Cause : While environment creation is happening "TestAgentInstaller" service gets created, which does automatic agent install and configure, once these operations are done it gets ...

Get started with some basic TFBuild scripts

July 23, 2013 Jul 23, 2013 07/23/13
Andy Lewis
You want to run some of your business logic during your TFBuild process. Maybe before, or maybe after Team Foundation Build (TFBuild) compiles or tests your code. For example, before you compile, you want to set the version of your assembly files. Or after you compile, you want to control the build outputs that get dropped to your staging ...