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Monitor Team Services web extensions with Visual Studio Application Insights
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 these people are using it. Enter Visual Studio Application Insights. Get an overview of extensions for Team Services. Extensions are also available on-premises with Team Foundation Server 2015 Update 2 RC1 (see the release notes). Application Insights, or AI, is a Microsoft ...
Get your code hosted for free in VSTS
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's take a look! Create your account Get started by creating your free VSTS account. You'll need to have a Microsoft Account to do so, but don't worry, you can create one along the way if you don't already have one. Creating your account is as easy as picking a name and click...
Parallel and Context Sensitive Test Execution with Visual studio 2015 Update 1
(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 Functional Test Task” as that paradigm is different using separate machines and “test containers” (think assemblies)) Visual studio 2015 Update 1 : Parallel and Context Sensitive Test Execution Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 contains a bunch of improvements and bug fixes. In ...
Search now available on Visual Studio Marketplace
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. You can now search for extensions by clicking on the search icon in the top right corner of the page. The search currently occurs in the context of the product selected, over the following parameters: Extension Name, Publisher Name and Extension short description. Do note...
Join the Java Tools Challenge – Help make Java great with Visual Studio Team Services and win your share of >$80K in prizes
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 participate: Create a Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) extension that helps developers create, test, and/or deploy Java apps; OR Create a Java app (multiple judging categories) using either the Visual Studio Team Services Eclipse plugin (aka Team Explorer Everywhere) or o...
Continuous Mobile Beta Distribution and Crash Reporting Using VS Team Services, HockeyApp, CodePush, and Cordova / PhoneGap
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 integrating your own Mac or using MacinCloud’s VS Team Services build agent plan. Beyond just building, new HockeyApp** **and CodePush integrations enable you to round out your DevOps story with continuous beta distribution and crash reporting. HockeyApp is a service that allow...
Adding Performance/load test to Azure Web and Mobile App Continuous Deployment
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Update: A new blog post with a full fledged UI to support the below scenario can be found here - Performance testing with App Service Continuous Deployment Back in September, we introduced a capability of Performance/Load testing with App Service Plan. You can measure the number of users your app can take before going into the production. You can access this functionality from the Tools menu as shown below: You can read more about the announcement here. So, for every deployment you do on the web app, you might like to verify the performance of your web app and see if it is going to meet your ...
Getting Started with Selenium Testing in a Continuous Integration Pipeline with Visual Studio
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 of the build process is a great way of detecting unexpected changes and need not be difficult. This walk through will get you started with using Selenium to Test your website in a Continuous Integration build. You can use the the PartsUnlimited sample from Gitub running on you...
Branch and pull requests improvements for Visual Studio
In Visual Studio 2015 Update 1, we enhanced the Git experience based on your feedback. As I mentioned in the most recent Git Futures post, there's a lot more on the way. Branches No matter what you're doing in VS, you usually want to know what repo you're in, the current branch, and have an easy way to switch branches. Now, all of that is in the VS status bar. You can also use it to create a branch, view branch history, and manage branches. It's also fast to search across local and remote branches, including path segments. In our repo we have all topic branches under users//topic-name. When I type my email a...