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System Center and IntelliTrace

April 19, 2013 Apr 19, 2013 04/19/13
James Wang (MS)
Over the past little while, the System Center Operations Management team and the Visual Studio IntelliTrace team have been working together to create an increasingly rich debugging experience for applications in production environments. This collaborative effort provides the ability to take Application Failure events from System Center 2012...

Debugging Unhandled Exceptions in a SharePoint App with Visual Studio using IntelliTrace

February 5, 2013 Feb 5, 2013 02/5/13
Tim Varcak (MSFT)
Following on from our last blog post on IntelliTrace enhancements for SharePoint, in this blog post we’ll talk about how the new analysis section for SharePoint can help you find the source of issues faster. The New Analysis Section IntelliTrace is very good at providing a lot of data to you for debugging, but there is such a thing as “...

VS2012 Update 2 Brings Symbol Improvements to Profiler and IntelliTrace

January 30, 2013 Jan 30, 2013 01/30/13
Dmitri Leonov
You will recall that VS2012 Update 1 brought a bunch of symbol loading improvements for your debugging scenarios, as documented in our previous two blog posts You’ll be happy to hear that with Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 we’ve taken these symbol related improvements one step further and applied them to more diagnostics scenarios. ...

Debugging SharePoint Apps with IntelliTrace in Visual Studio

December 11, 2012 Dec 11, 2012 12/11/12
James Wang (MS)
  In this post we’ll explore how to use IntelliTrace in Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate Update 2 to debug custom Web Parts in a SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint 2010  application. First we’ll summarize SharePoint’s use of correlation IDs and the IntelliTrace enhancements in VS2012 Update 2, and then we’ll dive into a walkthrough.   ...

Code Coverage in Microsoft Test Manager in Visual Studio Update 1

November 28, 2012 Nov 28, 2012 11/28/12
Charles Sterling
Another in the ALM MVP Blog series. This article was written by Mike Douglas one of our most active ALM Rangers contributing to a bunch of the ALM Ranger projects!  Make sure and check out Mikes article: Continuous Feedback using Storyboarding, Code Reviews, and the Feedback Tool in Visual Studio 2012 ALM  (The ALM Ranger projects are ...

Quick Response Sample – Visual Studio Extension to support the ALM Rangers Branching and Merging guidance

November 22, 2012 Nov 22, 2012 11/22/12
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Quick Response samples provide information directly from Visual Studio ALM Rangers working with the Microsoft Visual Studio Product Group and Microsoft Services, in response to feature gaps to supplement the product and knowledge base information. (image) Issue It is not simple to implement a consistent branching model, that complies with ...

Migrating Coded UI Test Projects on VS 2012

November 8, 2012 Nov 8, 2012 11/8/12
Aditya_msft
In Visual Studio 2012, Coded UI Test projects provide silent upgrade features where if you open a Coded UI Test project which was created in Visual Studio 2010 SP1, it will get repaired automatically to support both Visual Studio 2012 & Visual Studio 2010 SP1. Similarly if you create any new Coded UI Test project in Visual Studio 2012, you...

Coded UI Test: Why does application close after each test in Visual Studio 2012?

November 8, 2012 Nov 8, 2012 11/8/12
Aditya_msft
 In Visual Studio 2010 SP1, Coded UI Test added a flag CloseOnPlaybackCleanup to ApplicationUnderTest class. For cases where an application is launched during test run, this flag helps determine whether to close the application under test after test is over.  Default value for the flag was set to true (closes the application) as it is not...

Quick Response Sample – Command line utility to create TFS Branch Scenarios

October 26, 2012 Oct 26, 2012 10/26/12
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Quick Response samples provide information directly from Visual Studio ALM Rangers working with the Microsoft Visual Studio Product Group and Microsoft Services, in response to feature gaps to supplement the product and knowledge base information. Update 2012/11/22 - Please refer to the Quick Response Sample – Visual Studio Extension to ...