Azure DevOps Blog

Squash: A Whole New Way to Merge Pull Requests

March 15, 2016 Mar 15, 2016 03/15/16

Matthew Mitrik (MS)

Are you the type of developer that loves to keep your repos neat and tidy?  Are you a fan of interactive rebase and fixing up your commits until they're just right?  Do you wish you had an alternative to --no-ff merges when completing your pull request?  In the March 3rd release of Visual Studio Team Services, a new option was added to ...

.NET Core Debugging in VS Code

March 10, 2016 Mar 10, 2016 03/10/16

Andrew B Hall - MSFT

The C# extension for Visual Studio Code offers powerful editing and debugging support for .NET Core applications on Windows, Mac, and Linux, including: (image) Getting started To get started you will need to do a few things (see our GitHub page for complete instructions) Working with Console apps If you are working with a console ...

Using the DebuggerNonUserCode Attribute in Visual Studio 2015

February 12, 2016 Feb 12, 2016 02/12/16

Aaron Hallberg

You can add the DebuggerNonUserCode attribute to your application as a handy way to tell the debugger that you don’t want to debug into specific sections of code. If you haven’t used this attribute previously, this blog post gives a summary of how you can use it as part of your debugging workflow. If you currently use this attribute, ...

Branch and pull requests improvements for Visual Studio

January 27, 2016 Jan 27, 2016 01/27/16

Jeremy Epling

In Visual Studio 2015 Update 1, we enhanced the Git experience based on your feedback. As I mentioned in the most recent Git Futures post, there's a lot more on the way. Branches No matter what you're doing in VS, you usually want to know what repo you're in, the current branch, and have an easy way to switch branches. Now, all of that is in...

Servicing Update Available for Visual Studio Update 1

January 26, 2016 Jan 26, 2016 01/26/16

Aaron Hallberg

In Visual Studio 2015 we are piloting a recurring and cumulative servicing update that provides fixes to high-impact bugs between our regular updates. In the second servicing update recently made available, we fixed an issue in Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 that can cause Visual Studio to crash sometime after editing C# or Visual Basic ...

Pull Request Improvements in Visual Studio Team Services

January 20, 2016 Jan 20, 2016 01/20/16

Matthew Mitrik (MS)

Code Review with pull request is a central part of every git developer's inner loop.  Over the past few months, we've added a number of improvements to the pull request web experience for Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS), all focused on improving productivity while using pull requests.  Let's take a look at what's new. Personalized Pull ...