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Adding caching to Azure Pipelines

February 5, 2019 Feb 5, 2019 02/5/19
Alex Mullans
For a long while, Azure Pipelines users have been asking to improve performance on the hosted build agents by adding caching for common scenarios like package restore. The issue came up in a recent popular Hacker News item, so we wanted to share an update.

Getting started with Universal Packages

October 5, 2018 Oct 5, 2018 10/5/18
Mitch Denny
At the end of last sprint we flipped the switch on a new feature for Azure Artifacts called Universal Packages. With Universal Packages teams can store artifacts that don’t neatly fit into the other kinds of package types that we support. A Universal Package is just a collection of files that you’ve uploaded to our service and labelled with a name and version.

Package Management adds nuget.org upstream source

November 20, 2017 Nov 20, 2017 11/20/17
Alex Mullans
Until now, we've focused on making Package Management in Visual Studio Team Services and Team Foundation Server the best place to store your private NuGet and npm packages, but we haven't focused as much on the packages you use from public sources like NuGet.org. We've had basic support for npmjs.com as an "upstream source", but that's about ...

VSTS is now a Symbol Server

November 15, 2017 Nov 15, 2017 11/15/17
Alex Mullans
As far back as 2012, Visual Studio Team Services and Team Foundation Server users have been asking for a Symbol Server. Symbols are crucial to debugging Windows applications, esp. applications written in native languages like C and C++, because they map from the built binary back to the source code: the classes and functions needed to step ...

Using the latest NuGet in your build

September 29, 2017 Sep 29, 2017 09/29/17
Alex Mullans
NuGet (both the command-line tool and the accompanying tools built into Visual Studio) continues to iterate rapidly and add support for new .NET Core and .NET Standard target frameworks, among other improvements. Naturally, many users of Team Build in Visual Studio Team Services want to build those apps, and we've seen some support issues ...

Visual Studio Team Services demonstrates how Microsoft Loves Java

May 22, 2017 May 22, 2017 05/22/17
Paul T. Barham
To demonstrate our continued commitment to support Java developers and their full lifecycle DevOps needs with Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) and Team Foundation Server (TFS), I want to share some of our recent and exciting Java-related feature announcements. Our teams are working with large and small Java teams every day to better ...

Inside Visual Studio Team Services: Summer Interns and Package Management

August 19, 2016 Aug 19, 2016 08/19/16
Ayushman Jain
Each month, we bring you the insiders view into Visual Studio Team Services - how the product is developed, how we dogfood it and use it every day, who are the people behind it and tips and tricks on becoming a power userThis month, we interview our Explorer Interns - Aurélie Pluche, Tracy Tran and Madison Willcox. They're interning with ...

Versioning NuGet packages in a continuous delivery world: part 3

May 26, 2016 May 26, 2016 05/26/16
Matt Cooper
This is the third and final post in a series covering strategies for versioning a NuGet package. If you missed part 1 or part 2, you should read those first. Today’s post walks through a specific workflow that Git users could adopt, using a really powerful tool called GitVersion. GitVersion comes with some expectations about the layout of ...