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Free Microsoft Exam jump start for: Delivering Continuous Value with Visual Studio 2012 Application Lifecycle Management

April 23, 2013 Apr 23, 2013 04/23/13

Anisha Pindoria

There has been a ton of excitement around the new ALM course and exams.  Responding to this two of the ALM MVPs Anthony Borton and Steven Borg are offering a FREE jump start for Exam 70-498: Delivering Continuous Value with Visual Studio 2012 Application Lifecycle Management. This Jump Start targets application development teams ...

System Center and IntelliTrace

April 19, 2013 Apr 19, 2013 04/19/13

James Wang (MS)

Over the past little while, the System Center Operations Management team and the Visual Studio IntelliTrace team have been working together to create an increasingly rich debugging experience for applications in production environments. This collaborative effort provides the ability to take Application Failure events from System Center 2012...

Help content for the Agile planning tools gets a makeover with TFS CU2

April 17, 2013 Apr 17, 2013 04/17/13

Kathryn Elliott

With the latest VS ALM TFS update, we've given the help content for the Agile Planning tools a makeover - as you can see by going to Collaborate and  Collaborate (dig deeper). The collaborate content shows you how to use the Agile planning tools with the latest Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012 with Update 2 installed. In ...

ALM Rangers ship guidance for DevOps bug resolution using IntelliTrace

April 11, 2013 Apr 11, 2013 04/11/13

Willy-P. Schaub

We are pleased to announce that we have shipped a new exciting project, focused on IntelliTrace, under the Visual Studio Test Tooling Guidance umbrella. This release supplements the Test Tooling Guide with the DevOps end-end scenario, giving you access to ALM end to end labs and guidance that include bug resolution using IntelliTrace. The ...

Visual Studio 2012 – Update 2 RTM!

April 4, 2013 Apr 4, 2013 04/4/13

Importer

Visual Studio Updates are a mechanism we are using to provide ongoing value throughout the year to our Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server customers. These updates will provide features to support the latest software trends in the market, and also offer an easy way to deploy bug fixes. Today we are excited to announce that Visual Studio ...

Upgrade your 2012 team project from RTM to Update 2

April 4, 2013 Apr 4, 2013 04/4/13

Ewald Hofman (MSFT)

In our effort to bring continuous improvements to the product, we have made improvements to the stock process templates in VS Update 2. If you have an account on our hosted service or when you create a new team project, your team projects are already updated with these changes. However if you have an on premises installation of TFS, the ...

Content Index for Visual Studio Web Tests and Load Tests

March 28, 2013 Mar 28, 2013 03/28/13

Charles Sterling

How to fix “TF400898: An Internal Error Occurred.” on your Kanban board in TFS 2012 Update 2

March 19, 2013 Mar 19, 2013 03/19/13

Importer

Kanban customizable columns was made publicly available in VS Update 2. You can read the release notes for an overview of the feature itself, and you can read an in-depth article to understand what happens under the hood. If you have an on premises installation of TFS, you might see the following error on the Kanban board   (image) ...

New tool for converting test lists to Visual Studio 2012 Playlists

March 15, 2013 Mar 15, 2013 03/15/13

Charles Sterling

One of the requests we have heard upon the introduction of test Playlists in Visual Studio Update 2 was a tool for converting Visual Studio 2010 test lists to the new Playlists format…Well it turns a developer, Rolf Huisman, at one of our “go to” ALM Partners InfoSupport wrote and and released one Codeplex!    To use it: 1...

Fixed the incorrect order of the first column on the Kanban board on the service

March 14, 2013 Mar 14, 2013 03/14/13

Ewald Hofman (MSFT)

After the Mar 4 update of the service, we received quite a bit of feedback about a bug on the Kanban board. It turned out that the first column on the board was not ordered by stack rank anymore, but by closed date. Since the closed date is empty in the first column, the order of the items in the column was random. Although our next ...