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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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