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SonarQube Scanner for MSBuild v1.1 released: static analysis now executed during the build

April 20, 2016 Apr 20, 2016 04/20/16
Bogdan Gavril
SonarSource have officially released SonarQube C# Plugin 4.4 and version 1.1 of the SonarQube Scanner for MSBuild. There have been no updates to the scanner documentation in this release, other that updating the version number to make it clear they relate to version 1.1 of the SonarQube Scanner for MSBuild. As usual, we’ve fixed a few bugs...

SonarLint for VisualStudio 2.1 released, brings consistency with MSBuild, navigation to SonarQube and notifications

April 18, 2016 Apr 18, 2016 04/18/16
Jean-Marc Prieur
< p>A few weeks ago, we released SonarLint for Visual Studio 2.0 and you discovered the SonarQube connected mode enabling customers to align the definition of the quality of a Visual Studio solution with a quality profile in SonarQube < p>Last Friday, we released SonarLint for Visual Studio 2.1, improving this “connected mode” ...

Visual Studio Team Services is in India!

April 16, 2016 Apr 16, 2016 04/16/16
Rogan Ferguson
Visual Studio Team Services is now available in India! India adds to the existing instances already in place in the US, Europe, and Australia. When you create a new account from https://www.visualstudio.com/ we default your region to the data center closest to you. Customers in India will now notice that India South is the default selection...

Git Experience Futures (April 2016)

April 14, 2016 Apr 14, 2016 04/14/16
Jeremy Epling
Some exciting new features are coming to the Git experience over the next few months. In January, I wrote about upcoming features and many of them are available now, but a few have taken longer than we anticipated. This post isn’t a comprehensive list of the Git enhancements we’re making, but it outlines the direction we’re headed. ...

Release Management planning update – 2016 H2

April 13, 2016 Apr 13, 2016 04/13/16
Vijay Machiraju
Now that we are done with a majority of items listed in our 2016 H1 plan, it is time to talk about our plans for 2016 H2. Most of the features listed below will first be available in VS Team Services, and they will be available on-premises in TFS vNext. We are quite early in these plans, and some of the screenshots shown below are just ...

Test execution improvements – Apr 2016

April 11, 2016 Apr 11, 2016 04/11/16
Anand Kamat
About a month ago, I published a blog detailing Testing tools roadmap and the value we have delivered over the last six months. If you have not seen it yet, I will encourage you to read and provide feedback. We continue to focus on efficient test execution across automated, manual and exploratory testing scenarios. Here are some enhancements ...

Merging the concepts of Account and Collection

April 9, 2016 Apr 9, 2016 04/9/16
Rogan Ferguson
We’re getting ready to roll out the first change outlined in Mario’s blog post on multiple collections per account to Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS). This change will merge the Account and Collection concepts. In early April this change will roll out for newly created accounts; in late April it will be applied to all existing accounts...

Team Foundation Server Update 2 “Trial”

April 6, 2016 Apr 6, 2016 04/6/16
Aaron Hallberg
NOTE: This post has been updated since it was initially published. The earlier version mistakenly stated that TFS server licenses were free in TFS 2015 Update 2 and beyond. This is not the case. TFS Express can still be used free of charge for up to five users. You need a server license to use the full version of TFS in a compliant manner. ...

New and updated DevLabs extensions in the Visual Studio Team Services Marketplace

April 6, 2016 Apr 6, 2016 04/6/16
Willy-P. Schaub
Microsoft DevLabs is an outlet for experiments from Microsoft, experiments that represent some of the latest ideas around developer tools. Solutions in this category are designed for broad usage, and you are encouraged to use and provide feedback on them; however, these extensions are not supported nor are any commitments made as to their ...