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Getting the most out of Git
Posted on behalf of guest blogger: Tobias Günther, CEO Fournova . Git Tower and Team Services together provide an awesome Git solution for your team, on Mac and (now!) Windows. — In the last few years, millions of developers have started to use Git. But just a fraction of them are using it confidently and productively: Git's large feature set and its even larger number of parameters and flags make it hard to master. The question, therefore, is not if you are using Git in your team. The question is if it helps you become a more professional and productive developer. Making Git Easier to Use We faced ...
Test Controller, Test Agent versions and their usage in different scenarios
There have been several questions on the different scenarios related to running automated tests in various workflows and which versions can / cannot be used. Let's use the following 2 names for categorizing how agents get used: Agents for Visual Studio 2013 Update 5 Agents for Visual Studio 2015 and Agents for Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 Agents for Visual Studio 2017 Offline installers can be created using the steps similar to the Visual Studio offline installer, described here. So, for example, to create an offline installer for Test Agent:...
Team Services November Extensions Roundup
This month, I’ve got two fun new extensions that have lots of potential; both of them are highly trending - taking some of the top spots for our most downloaded extensions over the last 30 days. I hope you enjoy these and have a Happy Thanksgiving! Activity Feed See it in the Marketplace: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=davesmits.VSTSActivityFeed I am a big fan of dashboard widgets and having a glanceable view of what's going on in my projects. With Activity Feed, you get two great things: an activity feed experience for Team Services, and a publisher who is committed to making this extensi...
Azure App Services Continuous Delivery
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We are continuously working on improving and simplifying the deployment experience to Azure from Visual Studio Team Services. As a part of that effort, we are excited to announce preview of the Continuous Delivery feature we have added for App Services in the Azure portal. Continuous Delivery simplifies setting up a robust deployment pipeline, you can setup a pipeline right from the Azure portal that builds, runs tests, and deploys to staging slot and then to production for every code commit/batch of code commits. Later, you can easily extend this deployment automation to handle any other operations your applic...
Storyboard shapes extensions being deprecated from Visual Studio Marketplace
PowerPoint integration has been deprecated in Visual Studio 2019 Starting today Visual Studio extensions are now being served from the Visual Studio Marketplace. Nearly all 10,000 + private and public Visual Studio extensions have been migrated to the Visual Studio Marketplace. As part of this change we are deprecating the Storyboard Shapes extensions which were for Microsoft PowerPoint. We will be maintaining direct downloads of the extensions using the following links in the interim. Note that these links will stop working at a future date. We will publish an updated blog post with the sunset strategy soon. ...
Visual Studio extensions now on the Marketplace!
We launched the public preview of the Visual Studio Marketplace at Connect() last year. Since then we’ve added a lot of features and have seen great engagement from developers both building and consuming extensions. But there was always one major missing element in our catalog, and that was Visual Studio extensions. Today we are proud to announce that all 7000+ Visual Studio extensions have been migrated from the Visual Studio Gallery to the Marketplace, finally making us the one stop for all extensions of the Visual Studio Product Family. Starting today users can browse, search, filter, rate, review and downloa...
Announcing general availability of Release Management
Today we are excited to announce the general availability of Release Management in Visual Studio Team Services. Release Management is available for Team Foundation Server 2017 as well. Since we announced the Public Preview of Release Management, we have been adding new features continuously and the service has been used by thousands of customers whose valuable feedback has helped us improve the product. Release Management is an essential element of DevOps that helps your team continuously deliver software to your customers at a faster pace and with high quality. Using Release Management, you can automate the de...
Announcing Public Preview for Work Item Search
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Today, we are excited to announce the public preview of Work Item Search in Visual Studio Team Services. Work Item Search provides fast and flexible search across all your work items. With Work Item Search you can quickly and easily find relevant work items by searching across all work item fields over all projects in an account. You can perform full text searches across all fields to efficiently locate relevant work items. Use in-line search filters, on any work item field, to quickly narrow down to a list of work items. Enabling Work Item Search for your Team Services account Work Item Search is available as...
Announcing Code Search on Team Foundation Server 2017
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Code Search is the most downloaded Team Services extension in the Marketplace! And it is now available on Team Foundation Server 2017! Code Search provides fast, flexible, and accurate search across your code in TFS. As your code base expands and is divided across multiple projects and repositories, finding what you need becomes increasingly difficult. To maximize cross-team collaboration and code sharing, Code Search can quickly and efficiently locate relevant information across all your projects in a collection. Read more about the capabilities of Code Search here. Understand the hardware requirements and so...