Azure DevOps Blog

Run CI builds in your Git team project

February 12, 2013 Feb 12, 2013 02/12/13

Andy Lewis

<!-- // <!-- Run CI builds in your Git team project --> Does your team use continuous integration (CI)? Are you an early adopter of the new Git capabilities in Visual Studio and Team Foundation Service? If so, you'll be glad to hear that you can define a CI build process that automatically builds and tests the code that your ...

Light weight browser based test management and execution

February 12, 2013 Feb 12, 2013 02/12/13

Charles Sterling

Visual Studio Update 2 added a light weight browser based test management to the already set of rich test features in the Visual Studio family.  The goal of these test features are to enable development teams an easy way of viewing and editing test cases, give manual testers a way of testing (both Windows and non-Windows) environments without...

February CTP for Visual Studio Update 2

February 11, 2013 Feb 11, 2013 02/11/13

Charles Sterling

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.  In Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 we are focusing ...

DevOps virtual machine with Team Foundation Server 2012 and System Center 2012 now available

February 7, 2013 Feb 7, 2013 02/7/13

Charles Sterling

Hands down one of the best training tools Microsoft has for Application Lifecycle Tools is Brian Keller’s virtual machines.  Today Brian released another of these virtual machines -this one focused on the integration between System Center 2012 Operations Manager and Team Foundation Server 2012.  In addition to the hands-on-lab / ...

Create, Connect, and Publish using Visual Studio with Git

February 6, 2013 Feb 6, 2013 02/6/13

Andy Lewis

// <!-- Create, Connect, and Publish using Visual Studio with Git --> By: Andy Lewis and Matthew Mitrik (MS) In the few days since we announced Visual Studio and Team Foundation Service support for Git, it's been exciting to see so much interest, along with a lot of great feedback and questions. We will take your feedback to help us...

Debugging Unhandled Exceptions in a SharePoint App with Visual Studio using IntelliTrace

February 5, 2013 Feb 5, 2013 02/5/13

Tim Varcak (MSFT)

Following on from our last blog post on IntelliTrace enhancements for SharePoint, in this blog post we’ll talk about how the new analysis section for SharePoint can help you find the source of issues faster. The New Analysis Section IntelliTrace is very good at providing a lot of data to you for debugging, but there is such a thing as “...

Microsoft Internal Usage of TFS: July – December 2012

February 5, 2013 Feb 5, 2013 02/5/13

Erin Dormier

Visual Studio Update 2 Team Foundation Server feature -Work Item Tagging

February 3, 2013 Feb 3, 2013 02/3/13

Charles Sterling

Unfortunately we don’t have a level above MVP is for recognizing community contributions; if we did Tarun would clearly have achieved that award too. Thanks for the post Tarun! ************************************   Microsoft has just switched the flag ON and released a whole bunch of new features in CTP for Visual Studio ...

Improvements in Windows Store Unit Tests: Test Exceptions in Async Lambda Expressions, Run Tests on the UI Thread

February 2, 2013 Feb 2, 2013 02/2/13

Charles Sterling

Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 includes support for unit testing managed Windows Store apps and includes unit test library templates for Visual C#, Visual Basic and Visual C++. For more information about these, see Creating and Running Unit Tests for Windows Store Apps. The namespace Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestPlatform.UnitTestFramework contains...

Fixes for TFS 2012 Update 1 (aka Cumulative Update 1 for Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012 Update 1)

February 1, 2013 Feb 1, 2013 02/1/13

Buck Hodges

We have now released a patch with a set of fixes for TFS 2012 Update 1. Many of you saw that we released a patch in early January and then pulled it down. This is the re-release.Shipping major changes to the server on this much faster cadence has been a learning experience for us. Brian wrote about some of the lessons we learned here. It turns...