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New Navigation for Visual Studio Team Services

June 19, 2018 Jun 19, 2018 06/19/18
Jeremy Epling
I’m excited to share the new navigation we’re working on for Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) to modernize the user experience and give you more flexibility. As Lori mentioned in her blog post, our goal to create an integrated suite that also gives the flexibly to pick and choose the services that work best for you. That goal is...

Shift Left with SonarCloud Pull Request Integration

May 10, 2018 May 10, 2018 05/10/18
Matthew Mitrik (MS)
One of our DevOps "habits" is to Shift Left and move quality upstream.  Including additional validations earlier in the DevOps pipeline means identifying potential issues before they become a problem.  For teams using pull requests, catching issues while the PR is active is ideal - the code hasn't been merged yet, so it's easy to respond to ...

Announcing the DevOps Resource Center

May 1, 2018 May 1, 2018 05/1/18
Sam Guckenheimer
One of the favorite parts of my job is curating a web site with the stories of how we work. Those experience reports and more of our guidance are now  consolidated at https://aka.ms/devops. In addition to our own stories, this center offers content to help your team learn DevOps practices, Git (including Git at scale), and Agile. There's ...

Release Flow: How We Do Branching on the VSTS Team

April 19, 2018 Apr 19, 2018 04/19/18
Edward Thomson
Whenever I talk to somebody about Git and version control, one question always comes up: How do you do your branching at Microsoft? And there’s no one answer to this question. Although we’ve been moving everybody in the company into one engineering system, standardizing on Git hosted in Visual Studio Team Services, what we haven’t done...

Announcement: Publish markdown files from your git repository to VSTS Wiki

March 25, 2018 Mar 25, 2018 03/25/18
Sandeep Chadda (MSFT)
Now you can publish markdown files from a git repository to the VSTS Wiki. Developers often write SDK documents, product documentation, or README files explaining a product in a git repository. Such pages are often updated alongside code in the code repository. Git provides a friction free experience where code and docs can live on the same ...

How to Contribute to Git (on Windows)

March 8, 2018 Mar 8, 2018 03/8/18
Derrick Stolee
Git was originally designed for Unix systems and still today, all the build tools for the Git codebase assume you have standard Unix tools available in your path. If you have an open-source mindset and want to start contributing to Git, but primarily use a Windows machine, then you may have trouble getting started. In fact, while responding ...

New Git Features in Visual Studio 2017 Update 6

March 6, 2018 Mar 6, 2018 03/6/18
Kayla Ngan (MSFT)
This week we released Visual Studio 2017 Update 6. In this release, you can now push, delete, and view all of the Git tags in your repository. Additionally, if you use Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS), you can checkout pull request branches making it easier to review, test, and build changes. To learn more about what else is new in Visual ...

Link wiki pages and work items, write math formulas in Wiki, Keyboard shortcuts and more…

January 12, 2018 Jan 12, 2018 01/12/18
Sandeep Chadda (MSFT)
Happy new year to all Wiki lovers. We are learning a lot with each passing day and in this blog I will share our learning and value that we delivered in the past few sprints. Few of these features are coming up in this sprint (Jan end). Link work items and Wiki pages In October, we had enabled the referencing work items to a wiki page, now ...

Microsoft’s Performance Contributions to Git in 2017

January 11, 2018 Jan 11, 2018 01/11/18
Derrick Stolee
Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) hosts the largest Git repository in the world: the Windows source code. Keeping a primary copy of the code available in the cloud and having it be performant while being updated by over 4000 users at the same time is a monumental achievement, but it is only useful if engineers can use the core Git client on ...