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Team Services September Extensions Roundup – App Stores!

September 13, 2016 Sep 13, 2016 09/13/16
Joe Bourne
Windows, iOS, and Android, oh my! This month the roundup focus is on app stores. Whether you're building apps for the Windows Store, the iOS App Store, or Google Play, these extensions provide build & release tasks to automate many facets of publishing your app. Whether you're releasing updates to a production app, upgrading from alpha ...

New requirement when updating Team Services extensions on the Marketplace

August 24, 2016 Aug 24, 2016 08/24/16
Will Smythe
If you develop extensions for Visual Studio Team Services or Team Foundation Server, there is a new requirement during publishing that you should be aware of: when updating an extension on the Marketplace, the updated extension's version number must be greater than the published extension's version number. To say it another way, you must ...

Becoming more productive with Git: Tower and Team Services

August 24, 2016 Aug 24, 2016 08/24/16
Ayushman Jain
Posted on behalf of guest blogger: Tobias Günther, CEO Fournova -- Working with Git in Visual Studio Team Services and Team Foundation Server just became even easier: the popular Git desktop client Tower now comes with dedicated integrations for these services. With that, cloning and creating repositories is now just a click away - and ...

Inside Visual Studio Team Services: Summer Interns and Package Management

August 19, 2016 Aug 19, 2016 08/19/16
Ayushman Jain
Each month, we bring you the insiders view into Visual Studio Team Services - how the product is developed, how we dogfood it and use it every day, who are the people behind it and tips and tricks on becoming a power user This month, we interview our Explorer Interns - Aurélie Pluche, Tracy Tran and Madison Willcox. They're interning with ...

Effective Patterns for Feature Flags

June 24, 2016 Jun 24, 2016 06/24/16
Ed Blankenship
Today, we are inviting Edith Harbaugh from LaunchDarkly as a guest writer for the ALM Blog to talk a little bit about the different patterns of Feature Flag implementations which has been a common topic I get asked about from many of you.  If you didn't see it, Edith joined us on stage at Build 2016 earlier this year to launch a new ...

The Maven build task now supports PMD analysis out of the box

June 15, 2016 Jun 15, 2016 06/15/16
Jean-Marc Prieur
Simple Java static analysis tools In addition to working on the SonarQube integration, we received feedback from some of you that you would like the Maven and Gradle tasks to perform static analysis using common Java tools such as PMD, CheckStyle, and FindBugs. These tools are also supported though SonarQube plug-ins, and most of their rules ...