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Announcing general availability of Release Management
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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...
Package Management is generally available: NuGet, npm, and more
Today, I'm proud to announce that Package Management is generally available for Team Services and TFS 2017! If you haven't already, install it from the Visual Studio Marketplace. Best-in-class support for NuGet 3 NuGet support in Package Management enables continuous delivery workflows by hosting your packages and making them available to your team, your builds, and your releases. With best-in-class support for the latest NuGet 3.x clients, Package Management is an easy addition to your .NET ecosystem. If you're still hosting a private copy of NuGet.Server or putting your packages on a file share, Package Manag...
Test result storage improvements and impact on upgrading to Team Foundation Server 2017
With the Team Foundation Server 2017 now available, TFS administrators will be planning to upgrade their existing TFS installations to this new version. As admins plan this activity, we wanted to discuss an important TFS database schema improvement that is rolling out with TFS 2017. What is the change? With TFS 2017, the test results generated from automated and manual testing will be stored in a more compact and efficient format, resulting in reduced storage footprint for TFS collection databases. With testing in Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD) workflows gathering momentum, this chan...
Import your TFS Database into Visual Studio Team Services
Since I have started in role on the Visual Studio Team Services & Team Foundation Server teams, I have been looking forward to the day that we could help TFS customers successfully migrate all of their data to our SaaS-based hosted TFS service: Â Visual Studio Team Services. Â It has been by far one of our more popular feature requests on User Voice as well. I am joined by so many on the team who have been waiting on this moment! Â We are very excited to announce the Preview of the TFS Database Import Service for Visual Studio Team Services. In the past, we have had various different options that offered ...
What’s trending on the Marketplace? Now you know!
Today we’re launching a new list on the VS Code home page to show case the top 18 trending extension on the Marketplace. By default, the list will show the top trending extensions in the week, but you can also see what extensions are trending in a day or month as well using the drop down. Reach out to us at vsmarketplace@microsoft.com for any feedback or on twitter using the hashtag #VSMarketplace. Have an idea for the Marketplace? Submit it on our uservoice page. Update: [December 12, 2016] Trending extensions category has been added to the VSTS home page as well
Add build/project details to your extension page on Marketplace
Developer activity on an extension has proven to be an important indicator of trust and reliability for users on the Marketplace. We’ve seen two such indicators used widely by publishers: We’ve seen a number of publishers linking to their repositories from their extension details page. We’ve also seen them respond to reviews asking users to raise an issue on their GitHub pages. Badges are also used widely in extension descriptions, for instance to link users to the CI build. We wanted to therefore, provide a consistent way for publishers to provide this information and also present a standard look a...
Best of Both Worlds
Back in February of 2015, I wrote a blog asking a very simple question: how many vendors does it take to implement DevOps? At the time I wrote the post, I felt the answer was one. Almost two years later, I believe that now more than ever. So why do companies insist on manually building a pipeline instead of using a unified solution? Fear of Vendor Lock In Despite the fact some vendors offer a complete solution, many still attempt to build DevOps pipelines using as many vendors as possible. Historically, putting all your eggs in one basket has proved to be risky. Because the systems only provided an All or Noth...