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Use SonarQube quality gates to control your Visual Studio Team Services builds

February 11, 2016 Feb 11, 2016 02/11/16
Bogdan Gavril
Note: a more recent documentation is available from Analyzing with SonarQube Extension for VSTS/TFS In Visual Studio Team Services and Team Foundation Server you can cause a build to fail if the code does not meet the conditions imposed by a SonarQube quality gate. This post describes how to configure this when using SonarQube 5.3 and earlier...

Search now available on Visual Studio Marketplace

February 7, 2016 Feb 7, 2016 02/7/16
Harysh Menon
Ever since we launched the preview of Visual Studio Marketplace in November, the response from all of you in the community has been tremendous. With more and more extensions being added each day, the requests for one particular feature kept growing, Search. Today we are glad to announce that we are enabling search for Visual Studio Marketplace...

Join the Java Tools Challenge – Help make Java great with Visual Studio Team Services and win your share of >$80K in prizes

February 3, 2016 Feb 3, 2016 02/3/16
Paul T. Barham
Join the Java Tools Challenge and Help Make Java Great with Visual Studio Team Services - submit a winning entry and you or your team will walk away with valuable prizes (cash, hardware and software). The 2016 Java Tools Challenge officially opened on Feb 1st and runs through Apr 30th. Are you up for the challenge? There are two ways you can...

Visual Studio Marketplace hits a major milestone – 1 million page views and 250K unique users!

January 19, 2016 Jan 19, 2016 01/19/16
Importer
At Connect() we announced the *Public Preview *of Visual Studio Marketplace – the one place to discover and acquire extensions, integrations and subscriptions for the Visual Studio family of products. On Jan 10th, in just about 52 days, we hit a major milestone – 1 million page views and 250K unique users !!   This has been made ...

SonarQube Integration Update and 2016H1 Plans

January 11, 2016 Jan 11, 2016 01/11/16
Jean-Marc Prieur
[Updated April 5th: In the "Plans for H1" section, added links to blog posts on released features] Back in September Stuart explained our SonarQube Integration plans with Visual Studio, TFS and Visual Studio Team Services. In December he updated the blog post with what we had done. With the Visual Studio Team Services Features Timeline being...

SonarQube Scanner for MSBuild v1.1 released: static analysis now executed during the build

January 4, 2016 Jan 4, 2016 01/4/16
Bogdan Gavril
SonarSource have officially released SonarQube C# Plugin 4.4 and version 1.1 of the SonarQube Scanner for MSBuild. There have been no updates to the scanner documentation in this release, other that updating the version number to make it clear they relate to version 1.1 of the SonarQube Scanner for MSBuild. As usual, we’ve fixed a few bugs...

Release Management Workflow Migrator

December 15, 2015 Dec 15, 2015 12/15/15
Willy-P. Schaub
Looking to export a Release Management agent based deployment pipeline so that it can be reused in the Release Management service in Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS)? We have released a migration tool and associated guidance as an open source project, allowing you to use “as is” or contribute to the project. If a Pull Request shows up ...

Breakpoint Generator Extension

November 19, 2015 Nov 19, 2015 11/19/15
Andrew B Hall - MSFT
Posting on behalf of Jakob Ehn and Utkarsh Shigihalli, Visual Studio ALM Rangers and MVPs As developers, we are often confronted with existing, potentially large codebases that we have never seen before but are asked to make changes in. It can be a class library received from a colleague or a complete application downloaded from GitHub to ...

Announcing Public Preview of Visual Studio Marketplace

November 18, 2015 Nov 18, 2015 11/18/15
Charles Sterling
We’re excited to announce the Public Preview of the new Visual Studio Marketplace – the one place to discover and acquire extensions, integrations and subscriptions for the Visual Studio family of products. Now publishers can directly host their extensions on the Visual Studio Marketplace and engineering teams can use these extensions to ...

Support for Active Directory and Single Sign On (SSO) in the SonarQube LDAP Plugin

November 13, 2015 Nov 13, 2015 11/13/15
Harysh Menon
At Microsoft we have been working closely with SonarSource to improve the developer experience when using SonarQube server. An example is the new version (1.5) of the SonarQube LDAP Plugin. This version was developed in close collaboration with SonarSource, with the aim of improving the plugins integration when working with Active Directory. ...