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VS Subscriptions and linking your VSTS account to AzureAD

Justin Marks January 29, 2018 Jan 29, 2018 01/29/18

A few weeks ago, I posted about a change coming to organizations managing their identities with Microsoft Accounts (MSAs); as of March 30th, you will no longer able to create new MSAs with a custom domain name that is linked to an Azure Active Directory tenant. Many customers have reached out asking how this change affects their Visual ...

VSTS will no longer allow creation of new MSA users with custom domain names backed by AzureAD

Justin Marks January 5, 2018 Jan 5, 2018 01/5/18

3-28-2018 UPDATE : The deadline listed below has been extended to the end of September. Read my latest blog post for more information. On September 15, 2016, the Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) team blocked the ability to create new Microsoft accounts using email addresses in domains that are configured in Azure AD. Many VSTS customers ...

Remembering How We Should Manage Open Source

Sam Guckenheimer September 22, 2017 Sep 22, 2017 09/22/17

A DevSecOps best practice is root cause analysis, so that we can learn from live site incidents and prevent their recurrence. Equifax made news recently with the exfiltration of data from half the US population. This is a sobering opportunity to look at the root cause. The Equifax attack used Apache Struts, a popular open source project for ...

Using Open Source Components? Using TFS?

Sam Guckenheimer May 22, 2017 May 22, 2017 05/22/17

Back in March, I wrote about the WhiteSource Bolt extension for VSTS. This is a fantastic way to automate security checks for open source vulnerabilities in the release pipeline of your team project. The most frequent question Iâ€™ve received is, When can we have this for TFS too? Iâ€™m happy to announce that the extension now works ...

Open Source Scanning in Visual Studio Team Services with WhiteSource Bolt

Sam Guckenheimer March 7, 2017 Mar 7, 2017 03/7/17

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

Code Map: From Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate to Visual Studio 2015 Enterprise

Jean-Marc Prieur July 23, 2015 Jul 23, 2015 07/23/15

When you want to understand specific dependencies in your code, visualize them by creating code maps. You can then navigate these relationships by using the map, which appears next to your code. Code maps can also help you keep track of your place in the code while you work or debug code, so you'll read less code while you learn more about ...

Code Maps improvements in Visual Studio Enterprise 2015 RTM: Code maps now have simpler menus, more intuitive icons, and independent group layout

Jean-Marc Prieur July 20, 2015 Jul 20, 2015 07/20/15

Amongst the improvements we’ve made to Code Maps in Visual Studio Enterprise 2015 RTM are: The icons are now consistent with Solution Explorer and other tools The following screenshot shows a code map in Visual Studio 2015 RC. You can see that, although the nodes are decorated with icons, these are of varying sizes and some are ...

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