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Official Release of TFVC Support for the Visual Studio Team Services Plugin for Android Studio and IntelliJ

March 7, 2017 Mar 7, 2017 03/7/17
leantk
In the 1.115.0 release of the Visual Studio Team Services plugin for Android Studio and IntelliJ, Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) support is transitioning from preview mode to official release. TFVC support was added in a preview state starting September 2016 and continually has had more functionality added to it with each iteration. ...

Open Source Scanning in Visual Studio Team Services with WhiteSource Bolt

March 7, 2017 Mar 7, 2017 03/7/17
Sam Guckenheimer
Most organizations today consume open source software in their development projects. The reuse of components enables great productivity gains. However, this practice has an unintended consequence: you can reuse security vulnerabilities or violate licenses without realizing the risk. I wrote about this in an article in MSDN Magazine on Rugged ...

New Git Features in Visual Studio 2017

March 6, 2017 Mar 6, 2017 03/6/17
Kayla Ngan (MSFT)
We've added new Git features to Visual Studio 2017 that allow you to do more of your end-to-end workflow without leaving the IDE. You can perform a force push to complete a rebase or push an amended commit, easily view the diff for outgoing commits, unset your upstream branch, and continue patch rebase from VS. Additionally, because we moved ...

Announcing GVFS (Git Virtual File System)

February 3, 2017 Feb 3, 2017 02/3/17
Saeed Noursalehi
Here at Microsoft we have teams of all shapes and sizes, and many of them are already using Git or are moving that way. For the most part, the Git client and Team Services Git repos work great for them. However, we also have a handful of teams with repos of unusual size! For example, the Windows codebase has over 3.5 million files and is over ...

Splitting up Git administer permissions

January 27, 2017 Jan 27, 2017 01/27/17
Matt Cooper
Like everything in VSTS and TFS, Git repos are protected by a set of permissions. For instance, you must have Read for a repo to clone or view its contents. Likewise, you must have Contribute to push changes. Until recently, you needed one permission to create, delete, or rename a repo, edit branch policies, or change other people's ...

Debugging .NET Core on Unix over SSH

January 26, 2017 Jan 26, 2017 01/26/17
aman_satveerraj
With the release of Visual Studio 2017 RC3 it is now possible to attach to .NET Core processes running on Linux over SSH. This blog post will explain how to set this up. Machine Setup On the Visual Studio computer, you need to install either the 'ASP.NET and web development' or the ".NET Core cross-platform development" workload in the 1/26/...

How to recreate the TFVC team project folder

December 12, 2016 Dec 12, 2016 12/12/16
Matt Cooper
We've had a handful of support calls lately from customers who deleted their team project folder in TFVC. tf.exe makes it easy to do, but not easy to undo. Fortunately, the fix is straightforward, and Will Lennon has written it up in a blog post. With Will's permission, I'm reblogging the contents below. TF.exe makes it easy to destroy a ...

What’s new in Git for Windows 2.11?

December 1, 2016 Dec 1, 2016 12/1/16
Johannes Schindelin
Git for Windows v2.11.0 is out! Download it here (homepage is here). The new version corresponds to Git v2.11.0 (release notes are here, and our friends over at GitHub blogged about it, too). Apart from the improvements inherited from the "upstream Git" project, Git for Windows also updated some libraries to address security concerns, and ...

Announcing Code Search on Team Foundation Server 2017

November 16, 2016 Nov 16, 2016 11/16/16
Jimson Chalissery [MSFT]
Code Search is the most downloaded Team Services extension in the Marketplace! And it is now available on Team Foundation Server 2017! Code Search provides fast, flexible, and accurate search across your code in TFS. As your code base expands and is divided across multiple projects and repositories, finding what you need becomes increasingly ...

Git perf and scale

November 2, 2016 Nov 2, 2016 11/2/16
Matt Cooper
New features and UI changes naturally get a lot of attention. Today, I want to spotlight the less visible work that we do on Team Services: ensuring our performance and scale meet our customers' needs now and in the future. We are constantly working behind the scenes profiling, benchmarking, measuring, and iterating to make every action faster...