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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 and ...
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. Cause : While environment creation is happening "TestAgentInstaller" service gets created, which does automatic agent install and configure, once these operations are done it gets self destructed...
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 location....
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 SP1 ...
We are pleased to announce that we have shipped a new exciting project, focused on IntelliTrace, under the Visual Studio Test Tooling Guidance umbrella. This release supplements the Test Tooling Guide with the DevOps end-end scenario, giving you access to ALM end to end labs and guidance that include bug resolution using IntelliTrace. The Epics...
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 “too much” ...
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. Specificall...
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. SharePoint’s Unifie...
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 projects th...