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IntelliTrace in Visual Studio Enterprise 2015 now supports attach!
If you haven’t done so already, check out the announcement of IntelliTrace in Visual Studio Enterprise 2015 which gives you an overview of IntelliTrace and its UI. Since the release of Visual Studio Enterprise 2015 RC, IntelliTrace supports the ability to attach to running processes. As soon as Visual Studio has successfully attached to the selected process the Diagnostic Tools window will show up. If it doesn’t, it may be because you previously closed it. You can bring back, even after you have attached, by clicking on the menu item Debug > Show Diagnostic Tools. The only current limitation is that IntelliTr...
Introduction and enhancements to Visual Studio Online Cloud Load Testing at Ottawa Dev Day May 30
If you missed Ignite or Build and live in Ottawa then you are in luck! A lot of that great content can be found at the Ottawa Dev Day May 30th. …While i have included their entire session list below i have to call out my favorite topic Cloud Load Testing will be there! Introduction to Cloud Load Testing Since November of 2012 when Cloud based Load Testing was released an amazing amount of value has been added to the Cloud based load test offering. The ability to scale to 100 cores (1000 cores when using parallel runs!!) the ability to author and initiate load tests from a browser experience, the abili...
Known Issue for Diagnostics Tool window in Visual Studio 2015 RC: “The diagnostic tools failed unexpectedly”
Updated 2015-07-23: Updated for Visual Studio 2015 RTM Updated 2015-06-01: Added symptom for ASP.NET MVC apps PLEASE NOTE: These issues have been resolved with Visual Studio 2015 RTM. These workarounds should no longer be necessary, and implementing them will not resolve other issues. If you are using the RTM version of Visual Studio 2015, and are running into errors with similar symptoms, please report them via the Feedback tool inside Visual Studio. The Diagnostic tools window is the home of IntelliTrace, debugger events and the Memory Usage tool. If you’ve run into an error when trying out the Diagnostic To...
Using Fiddler to monitor network traffic from the VS Emulator for Android
In today’s cloud-connected world, it’s hard to find an app that doesn’t make use of an internet connection in some way or another. Whether you’re collecting app usage telemetry, making calls to a web service, or uploading your users’ cat pictures to Facebook, ensuring that your app can reliably communicate with the web is critical to developing a high quality product. You already know that the Visual Studio Emulator for Android provides a great experience for debugging and testing your C++, JavaScript/TypeScript and HTML, C#, and even Java code on Android, but did you know that with network monitoring uti...
CodeLens and Team Project Rename
On April 24th, Brian announced the availability of Team Project Rename in Visual Studio Online. This is now available in Team Foundation Server 2015 RC as well. The good news is that** CodeLens just works after you rename a project**. When you re-open a file after renaming its team project, you will see all its history - including the changes made before the rename . **NOTE****: If you need to rename a project, I recommend that you read the MSDN article *Rename a Team Project in its entirety and follow all the guidelines there. * I described the CodeLens processing pipeline in an earlier post. After a team proj...
The easiest way to file bugs and send error logs for Visual Studio 2015
Just had one me my best MVPs send the event logs and memory dump of a Visual Studio Issue he ran into…It is no wonder I love these guys. Unfortunately he sent these logs to the entire development team….of which only a small % work on the shell. While I still love the guy I also wanted to point out there is a far better (and much easier) way to file bugs and get us logs for Visual Studio…Specifically using the send a smile… ….Actually well send a frown. Counter intuitively the feedback for frowns go through different workflows with the default state for send a frown to be a bug or suggestion… Versus the s...
Visual Studio Online Process Customization
It's been a long time coming, but I'm excited to let you know that process customization for Visual Studio Online (VSO) is right around the corner. In this post I want to take a few minutes to explain our roadmap and what you can expect over the next few months. Private Preview We’ve heard loud and clear that customers desire the ability to customize the work items they use on VSO. This is an important scenario for large organizations wanting to manage a custom process, and it's equally important for teams of all sizes wanting flexibility to add a few extra fields to track additional metadata about t...
Gain understanding and insights into projects in Visual Studio Online with Power BI
The Visual Studio Online team is proud to present the initial release of the Visual Studio Online content pack for Power BI. This is the first in a wave of additions to the analytical capabilities of Visual Studio Online using Power BI to easily visualize data and gain insights not previously possible. Understanding data is the key to making insightful business decisions, identifying gaps and issues, fixing those issues and monitoring progress. You can try it now by signing in to www.powerbi.com. What’s available in this release? Before showing off some of the features, it’s important to know what’s included. O...
Extensions for Visual Studio Online, REST APIs for TFS 2015 RC, and more from Build 2015
It has been a busy two days here at Build 2015 in San Francisco. Lots of announcements by Microsoft overall, and lots of great stuff for developers (across all platforms). Oh, and if you didn’t feel a little giddy after seeing the HoloLens demo, you should definitely check your pulse. I want to cover some of the integration and extensibility related features that were announced for Visual Studio Online (VSO) and Team Foundation Server (TFS). Everything we are doing in this space is about enabling teams to weave together the right set of tools and services to create a perfect (or nearly perfect) development envir...