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Using Coded UI to test XAML-based Windows Phone apps

April 4, 2014 Apr 4, 2014 04/4/14
Prachi Bora (MSFT)
In order to ship a great quality app to the Store, it is essential that you test it and flush out the bugs. End to end scenario tests when automated can help you ensure that any regressions in the app are caught early. With Visual Studio 2013 Update 2, you can now write automated end-to-end tests for your app using Coded UI Test. In Visual ...

Phone Debugging in Visual Studio 2013 Update 2

April 4, 2014 Apr 4, 2014 04/4/14
Andrew Chan - MSFT
Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 introduced several exciting changes for mobile development. You are now able to use the same programming model that you use to build Windows Store apps for Windows 8.1, to build XAML apps Windows Phone 8.1. In this post, I will remind you of the most important diagnostic capabilities that you will know from Windows...

Diagnosing Mobile Website Issues on Windows Phone 8.1 with Visual Studio

April 4, 2014 Apr 4, 2014 04/4/14
Andrew B Hall - MSFT
If you have spent time trying to make a compelling mobile version of your website you have likely hit issues with it not looking or working correctly on mobile browsers.  To help with this on Windows Phone, we’re very excited to announce that in Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 we have enabled the use of Visual Studio’s debugging and ...

Case study: Application Performance Monitoring with Application Insights

April 3, 2014 Apr 3, 2014 04/3/14
Alan Cameron Wills
James Beeson, Alan Wills - Our group runs about 20 web applications, serving a community of about 100k users spread around the world. Since we started using Application Insights, we’ve found we have a much clearer view of our applications’ performance, and as a result, our users are seeing better performing and more useful apps. This post...

Visual Studio Release Management 2013 Update 2 RC now available

April 3, 2014 Apr 3, 2014 04/3/14
Vijay Machiraju
We have announced the public availability of Visual Studio Release Management 2013 Update 2 RC today. Besides various minor fixes and enhancements, this release simplifies deployment of your applications to groups of servers, and triggering releases from third party systems. Let us talk about each of these features. Deploying to groups of ...

Create Lab Environment using TFS Lab Management APIs

April 2, 2014 Apr 2, 2014 04/2/14
Subramanyam [MSFT]
using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using System.Threading.Tasks; using Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client; using Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Lab.Client; namespace LabEnvironmentCreation {     classProgram     {         staticvoid ...