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Live Dependency Validation in Visual Studio 2017

Jean-Marc Prieur November 30, 2016 Nov 30, 2016 11/30/16

Last month we announced that Visual Studio “Dev15” Preview 5 now supported Live Dependency Validation. In this blog post, On demand video about dependency validation During the connect 2016 event, we’ve proposed an on-demand video which explains in detail why you’d want to use Dependency ...

Code Search is now Java friendly

Shruti Poddar [MSFT] October 17, 2016 Oct 17, 2016 10/17/16

In addition to C#, C, C++, and Visual Basic code, you can now do semantic searches across Java code. Adding to our Java feature set and capabilities, we recently enabled contextual search for Java files in the Code Search extension for Visual Studio Team Services and Team Foundation Server starting with TFS “15”. You can apply code type ...

UML Designers have been removed; Layer Designer now supports live architectural analysis

Jean-Marc Prieur October 14, 2016 Oct 14, 2016 10/14/16

We are removing the UML designers from Visual Studio "15" Enterprise. Removing a feature is always a hard decision, but we want to ensure that our resources are invested in features that deliver the most customer value. Our reasons are twofold: If you are a significant user of the UML designers, you can continue to use Visual Studio...

Maven and Gradle build tasks support powerful code analysis tools

Bogdan Gavril October 12, 2016 Oct 12, 2016 10/12/16

Over the last few months we have been steadily building up the capabilities of the Maven and Gradle build tasks to offer insights into code quality through popular code analysis tools. We are pleased to announce additional much-requested features that we are bringing to these tasks, which will make it easier to understand and control technical...

Live architecture dependency validation in Visual Studio “15” Preview 5

Importer October 7, 2016 Oct 7, 2016 10/7/16

In the past year, you told us that you considered removing unwanted dependencies to be an important part of managing your technical debt. The Layer designer enables you to validate architectural dependencies in your Visual Studio solutions. It first shipped in Visual Studio 2010, and is now part of Visual Studio Enterprise. But the experience ...

TFVC Support in Preview for Team Services Plugin for IntelliJ and Android Studio

leantk September 18, 2016 Sep 18, 2016 09/18/16

We are proud to announce that Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) support is being added to the Team Services plugin for IntelliJ and Android Studio. Currently, the 1.106.0 version of the plugin will contain preview functionality to support TFVC repositories in the IDEs. Android Studio developers stuck with no TFVC support to create mobile...

Maven and Gradle build task support Checkstyle analysis

Bogdan Gavril September 5, 2016 Sep 5, 2016 09/5/16

A few sprints ago we enabled SonarQube and PMD analysis on the Maven and Gradle tasks. We continue to add code analysis tooling to the Java build tasks with Checkstyle support for Gradle, and - in a few days - for Maven. Checkstyle Analysis Checkstyle is the analyzer of choice for enforcing a coding standard. It is a highly configurable ...

Continuous Delivery of iOS Applications with Visual Studio Team Services

Madhuri Gummalla August 25, 2016 Aug 25, 2016 08/25/16

We are happy to announce an Apple App Store extension that allows deploying iOS applications to the Apple App Store via Team Services or Team Foundation Server (2015 Update 3 or later). Along with the Google Play extension, this provides a good story for continuous deployment of iOS and Android mobile applications via Team Services and TFS...

Deploying an Azure Red Hat Linux VM Running Apache Tomcat for use with Visual Studio Team Services and Team Foundation Server

Paul T. Barham August 18, 2016 Aug 18, 2016 08/18/16

Visual Studio Team Services and Team Foundation Server (TFS) now has at least three mechanisms (i.e. deployment and utility tasks) for deploying to a Linux host or virtual machine (VM). This walkthrough will show specifically how to setup and configure an Red Hat (v. 7.2) VM on Azure to run Tomcat and other necessary services to support ...

Deploying an Azure Ubuntu Linux VM Running Apache Tomcat for use with Visual Studio Team Services and Team Foundation Server

David Staheli August 18, 2016 Aug 18, 2016 08/18/16

Visual Studio Team Services and Team Foundation Server (TFS) now have at least three mechanisms (i.e. deployment and utility tasks) for deploying to a Linux host or virtual machine (VM). This walkthrough will show specifically how to setup and configure an Ubuntu (v16) VM on Azure to run Tomcat and other necessary services to support three...

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