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September 9, 2013 Sep 9, 2013 09/9/13
Willy-P. Schaub
This blog post has moved to ALM Rangers blog on https://aka.ms/vsarNews4,  where we introduce the solution in combination with the upcoming the Patterns & Practices book “Building a Release Pipeline with TFS ” – it’s a great way to start learning the concepts of DevOps & Release Management for TFS 2012...

Visual Studio 2013 Release Candidate now available for download

September 9, 2013 Sep 9, 2013 09/9/13
Charles Sterling
I am extremely pleased to announce the availability of Visual Studio 2013 release candidate for download.  This release includes new tools for line of business applications, Web applications, games, mobile devices, services and of course applications targeting our latest platform Windows 8.1.** **With the Visual Studio 2013 Release ...

Verification step of Standard Environment creation fails with team foundation server Lab Management can give error “Microsoft Test Manager can not install agent on the machine because another environment is being created using the same machine”

September 5, 2013 Sep 5, 2013 09/5/13
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This issue occurs when you try to create a lab environment using a machine and another environment creation is in progress using the same machine. (image)   Cause : While environment creation is happening "TestAgentInstaller" service gets created, which does automatic agent install and configure, once these operations are done it gets ...

Visual Studio Unit Test Generator v1 “lands”

August 27, 2013 Aug 27, 2013 08/27/13
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The ALM Rangers are pleased to announce the landing of the Visual Studio Unit Test Generator v1. Looking for unit test code generation? The Visual Studio Unit Test Generator helps to increase developer productivity by decreasing the setup work involved in creating new unit tests. It takes away the routine test creation tasks allowing a ...

Coded UI Test Gesture support in Visual Studio 2013

August 16, 2013 Aug 16, 2013 08/16/13
Abhitej_MSFT
As part of Coded UI Test’s support for windows store apps introduced in Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 as detailed in this blog , there is now playback support for touch gestures on Windows Store Apps. These gestures are only a simulation and hence one would not need to have a touch monitor to use these API’s. Currently these API&...

ALM Readiness Treasure Map – Release 2 available in the Windows Store

August 3, 2013 Aug 3, 2013 08/3/13
Anisha Pindoria
The ALM Rangers are pleased to announce the landing of the second release of the ALM Readiness Treasure Map Windows Store App, which was certified and released on August 1st and is now featured in the Windows Store.  (image) (image) (image) It provides a master catalogue (treasure map) of the available ALM Readiness content to guide you...

Visual Studio 2013 Application Lifecycle Management Virtual Machine with Hands-on-Labs / Demo Scripts

August 2, 2013 Aug 2, 2013 08/2/13
Charles Sterling
While i hate simply echoing other blog posts…This one was too important to not cover. The ALM Virtual Machine (which most people refer to as the “Keller VM”) is probably the single most important Microsoft ALM training tool – used both by internal and external trainers.  Today Brian Keller(on his way to his honeymoon!!) just ...