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DevOps, Git, and Agile updates from the team building Azure DevOps

Quickly navigate with keyboard

February 12, 2016 Feb 12, 2016 02/12/16
Ewald Hofman (MSFT)
Shortcuts have been in Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) and Team Foundation Server (TFS) for a long time, but not many keyboard shortcuts were available and it was not discoverable. Since a few deployments we have introduced more shortcuts using the MouseTrap open source library. You can now type in keys whenever you are not focused on an ...

Use SonarQube quality gates to control your Visual Studio Team Services builds

February 11, 2016 Feb 11, 2016 02/11/16
Bogdan Gavril
Note: a more recent documentation is available from Analyzing with SonarQube Extension for VSTS/TFS In Visual Studio Team Services and Team Foundation Server you can cause a build to fail if the code does not meet the conditions imposed by a SonarQube quality gate. This post describes how to configure this when using SonarQube 5.3 and earlier...

Monitor Team Services web extensions with Visual Studio Application Insights

February 11, 2016 Feb 11, 2016 02/11/16
Will Smythe
One of the top questions we get from developers building extensions for Visual Studio Team Services is "Are people using my extension"? The Visual Studio Marketplace (launched in November and currently in preview) shows the number of Team Services accounts an extension is installed to, but not the number of people actually using it or how ...

Get your code hosted for free in VSTS

February 10, 2016 Feb 10, 2016 02/10/16
Matthew Mitrik (MS)
If you have a project you've been working on, but haven’t yet had a chance to put it in source control, then spend a few minutes of your leap day this year and host it for free in Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS).  VSTS is a great place to host all of your projects for free, and creating a repo to host your code is easier than ever.  Let...

Parallel and Context Sensitive Test Execution with Visual studio 2015 Update 1

February 8, 2016 Feb 8, 2016 02/8/16
Charles Sterling
(Editors Note:  One of the most popular series of blog posts on the ALM Blog was Terje’s posts on Unit Testing.  So when he asked to republish his Norwegian post on the ALM blog the answer was of course an enthusiastic YES!.  A little off topic this post also highlights we need a post on executing parallel test runs with the new “Run ...

Search now available on Visual Studio Marketplace

February 7, 2016 Feb 7, 2016 02/7/16
Harysh Menon
Ever since we launched the preview of Visual Studio Marketplace in November, the response from all of you in the community has been tremendous. With more and more extensions being added each day, the requests for one particular feature kept growing, Search. Today we are glad to announce that we are enabling search for Visual Studio Marketplace...

Join the Java Tools Challenge – Help make Java great with Visual Studio Team Services and win your share of >$80K in prizes

February 3, 2016 Feb 3, 2016 02/3/16
Paul T. Barham
Join the Java Tools Challenge and Help Make Java Great with Visual Studio Team Services - submit a winning entry and you or your team will walk away with valuable prizes (cash, hardware and software). The 2016 Java Tools Challenge officially opened on Feb 1st and runs through Apr 30th. Are you up for the challenge? There are two ways you can...

Continuous Mobile Beta Distribution and Crash Reporting Using VS Team Services, HockeyApp, CodePush, and Cordova / PhoneGap

January 28, 2016 Jan 28, 2016 01/28/16
Chris Patterson (MSFT)
Visual Studio Team Services (formerly Visual Studio Online) and Team Foundation Services 2015 supports a cross-platform build system that allows you to easily configure builds that run on Windows, Linux, and even OSX. Visual Studio Team Services comes with a cloud hosted build agent that runs on Windows and iOS apps can be built either by ...

Getting Started with Selenium Testing in a Continuous Integration Pipeline with Visual Studio

January 27, 2016 Jan 27, 2016 01/27/16
Charles Sterling
Leveraging Donovan’s great DevOps series on building his Ignite Demo here is a walk through for using Selenium with Visual Studio Team Services and the PartsUnlimited sample found at: https://github.com/Microsoft/PartsUnlimited   Getting Started with Selenium in a Continuous Integration Pipeline Performing user interface testing as part ...