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Updated Application Insights Status Monitor to support .12 (and later) Application Insights SDK
The latest release of the Application Insights Status Monitor tool provides an update to the runtime instrumentation agent, which is a component of Application Insights that automatically discovers your code dependencies like SQL databases, other HTTP endpoints and Azure storage accounts. This new runtime instrumentation agent requires your application to use the .12 (or later) Application Insights SDK available here. The latest version of the Application Insights Status Monitor tool is available to install here. Follow either of these steps to update your application from a previous version of the Applicatio...
Getting started with Cloud-based Load Test REST APIs
REST API’s are pretty cool, enabling you to do things like write your own custom reports, write your own interfaces and of course integrating load tests into your build. Looking at the sample referenced with our REST API documentation; at 400 lines to demonstrate 4 API’s I must admit I found it pretty daunting so I thought I would see if I could simplify that somewhat. Just like the documentation indicates: the first place you want to start is to enable alternate credentials. This is done by opening your user profile from Visual Studio Online. And enabling alternative credentials. At this point we a...
Introducing the Child Process Debugging Power Tool
We’ve heard your feedback that you want the Visual Studio debugger to support child process debugging. Child process debugging means that when the application you are debugging creates another process, Visual Studio will detect this and automatically attach a debugger to the newly created process as well. To address this we’re releasing a power tool for Visual Studio that will enable you to do just this. Some important things to note: Once you install the power tool from the Visual Studio Gallery, a new menu item will appear on the “Debug” menu under the “Other Debug Targets” sub-menu. When you open th...
Avoiding Visual Studio Fakes Build break
If you are using Visual Studio Fakes in your Unit Testing, and you created your test project from any of the below versions of Visual Studio, then if you upgrade to Visual Studio 2013 Update 4, you may start hitting build errors around Microsoft.QualityTools.Testing.Fakes.dll.Visual Studio 2012Visual Studio 2013 Update1Visual Studio 2013 Update2Visual Studio 2013 Update3 Exact error message : "The type 'Microsoft.QualityTools.Testing.Fakes.Stubs.StubBase`1' is defined in an assembly that is not referenced. You must add a reference to assembly 'Microsoft.QualityTools.Testing.Fakes, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=n...
Introducing Smart Unit Tests
[Editor’s note: "Smart Unit Tests" has been renamed to “IntelliTest” with effect from Visual Studio 2015 Release Candidate (RC).] If you have not already seen the brief video on the Smart Unit Tests feature, I urge you to do so; this feature can help you overcome any inertia in getting started writing unit tests. But there is much more to it than what is shown in the video and we intend to complete that picture through this series of blog posts. Take the situation shown in the video - consider having to make changes to a body of code which happens to have no test coverage. We might want to pin down its behaviou...
DevOps style deployment in Visual Studio 2015 preview – Sharing deployment configuration with team
While the earlier blog on DevOps style deployment capability touched upon the scenarios for an individual developer, in this blog let’s look at how this experience can be extended to team. You would also want to refer Announcing DevOps style deployments using Visual Studio 2015 Preview and Azure and Brian Keller’s Channel9 Video first. A new “Environment” node is introduced in “Team Explorer”. Users should explicitly be a member of the “Team” for this “Environment” node to show-up. The Environments node will list environments that are specific to developer, called “My Environments” and those that ar...
DevOps style deployment in Visual Studio 2015 preview – A detailed look
By now you must be aware about the DevOps style deployment capability that was announced in Visual Studio 2015 preview. If not already, you would want to refer the announcement blog; Announcing DevOps style deployments using Visual Studio 2015 Preview and Azure. Brian Keller’s Channel9 Video is a great place to start to learn more about this feature. In this blog, we would like to share few additional details on how this capability works and how Developers can make use of it. To get started please refer to Pre-requisites and the instructions to create a deployment project that was shared in announcement blog. In...
Using Selenium with Cloud-based Load Testing
This blog is an introduction to how users can execute Selenium tests using Cloud-based Load Testing from Visual Studio Online. Introduction Let's get familiar with Cloud-based Load Testing (CLT) from Visual Studio Online (VSO) and Selenium. Let's get started. Authoring Selenium unit tests in Visual Studio Adding Load Test for the unit tests Running Selenium Tests on CLT On VSO For more ...
Set breakpoints on auto-implemented properties with Visual Studio 2015
Ask a room of developers what is the first concept that they think of when they think about debugging and most of them will say: breakpoints. That is why with Visual Studio 2015 we significantly improved the ability to configure breakpoints with conditions and actions. Given how easy it is now to configure breakpoints, we know you’ll be more upset if you accidentally delete one of them, so we also offer undo capability – when you remove a breakpoint by accident, just Ctrl+Z to bring it back with all its settings. In this post, I’ll share another smaller breakpoint enhancement: the ability to pl...