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Git Experience Futures (January 2016)

January 11, 2016 Jan 11, 2016 01/11/16
Jeremy Epling
Some exciting new features are coming to the Git experience over the next few months. In August, I wrote about upcoming features and most of them are available now, but a few have taken longer than we anticipated. This isn't a comprehensive list of the Git enhancements we're making, but it gives some specifics on the direction we're going. ...

Announcing the Git Credential Manager for Windows 1.0

December 8, 2015 Dec 8, 2015 12/8/15
Jeremy Epling
I’m pleased to announce version 1.0 of the Git Credential Manager for Windows (GCM) is available. Since we introduced the first beta in October 2015, we received great feedback from the community and incorporated it into this release. This project replaces the WinStore credential manager, which is no longer maintained. We've also created a ...

TFVC and Git repositories in the same team project

December 3, 2015 Dec 3, 2015 12/3/15
Jeremy Epling
Many teams are transitioning from TFVC to Git for version control and want to keep their work items, build definitions, and other data in their team project. Now with TFS Update 1 or Team Services, you can add Git repositories to your existing team project created with TFVC. In addition, you can add TFVC to an existing team project created ...

Debug UWP Prelaunch with VS2015

November 30, 2015 Nov 30, 2015 11/30/15
Andrew B Hall - MSFT
On Windows 10, the startup performance of Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps is improved by proactively launching and then suspending apps in a technique called Prelaunch. Many applications will not need to do anything special to work in this mode, but some applications may need to adjust their behavior, for example an application that ...

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 ...

Git Credential Manager for Mac and Linux

November 18, 2015 Nov 18, 2015 11/18/15
Oli Dagenais (MSFT)
Are you tired of typing in a user name and password every time you fetch from or push to remote Git repositories? Me too! We have good news! Today we are announcing the open-source release of the Git Credential Manager (GCM) for Mac and Linux.  This follows the release of the GCM for Windows.  We ported this tool to Mac and Linux to simplify...

Announcing Public Preview for Visual Studio Team Services Code Search

November 18, 2015 Nov 18, 2015 11/18/15
Biju Venugopal MS
Today, we are excited to announce the public preview of Code Search in Visual Studio Team Services.  With this release you can search for code across TFVC and Git projects in your Visual Studio Team Services account. Not only can you perform full text matching, but for C#, C and C++, it understands the structure of your code and allows you ...

Support for Team Foundation Server 2015 in SonarQube TFVC SCM Plugin

November 13, 2015 Nov 13, 2015 11/13/15
Harysh Menon
We are happy to announce a new version of the SonarQube TFVC SCM plugin (2.1) that adds support for Team Foundation Server 2015. The previous version of the plug-in supports TFS 2013 and below. With this plugin, when using TFS 2015, you can now see user information picked from TFVC in the source code browser on the SonarQube Server. (image...

Searching and filtering the Events tab of the Diagnostic Tools window

November 12, 2015 Nov 12, 2015 11/12/15
Angelos Petropoulos
With Visual Studio 2015 RTM we shipped the first version of the Diagnostic Tools window. In Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 we’ve made the following improvements to the Events tab of the Diagnostic Tools window to help you read through and understand the list of events even faster and more efficiently than before:  (image) **Note: ****...