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Visual Studio Cloud Load Testing & Error codes
Peruse the new PowerShell DSC v1 guidance and other recent releases
latest release We are pleased to announce that the first version of the PowerShell Desired State Configuration for DevOps and ALM Practitioners v1 guidance has shipped. other recent releases what’s next? We are resuming work on the “Git for TFVC User Guide” and continuing the PowerShell Desired State Configuration for DevOps and ALM Practitioners initiatives with a focus on building resources. Enjoy! Please add your comments/questions to this blog post.
Trigger Release from build with Release Management for Visual Studio 2013 Update 3
The following is applicable only for vNext pipelines of Release Management. To trigger a release from build with Release Management for Visual Studio 2013 Update 2, you needed to install RM client on TFS build agent machine. With Update 3, this is no longer needed. Release Management Update 3 has exposed some REST APIs to trigger release from TFS build agent machine without installing RM client. You can now write ps script using these REST APIs. You can then include this ps script in post build activity of build definition, to trigger a release with a new successful build. The APIs InitiateReleaseFromBuild...
New Breakpoint Configuration Experience in Visual Studio 2015
If you use Visual Studio to develop code, the chances are good that you set breakpoints on a regular basis as part of debugging. You may however not be aware that breakpoints can be configured with conditions and actions to improve your debugging productivity. In Visual Studio 2015 we’re pleased to introduce an improved experience that makes configuring breakpoints significantly easier to find and use for breakpoints associated with a specific line of source code: In this post I’ll show you how to create and configure breakpoints with the new experience. Then we’ll walk through debugging several problems ...
Perform diagnostic search across your Application Insights telemetry
In Application Insights, we’ve just upgraded Diagnostic Search so that you can search all the raw telemetry such as page views, as well as the trace log calls that you can insert. This makes it a lot easier to find and follow chains of events in your app. So for example, if you inserted some log4Net, NLog or System.Diagnostics trace calls in your app, you can easily see which user requests are triggering them, and tie them up to any custom event calls you’ve set up. And we added a nice block graph summarizing the search results over recent history. But please note that on October 9th we’ll be releasing a new SD...
Release Management Console times out when launched
When the Release Management Console application is loaded, it defaults to the Traffic Overview page. If the database is not optimized, the query used to load such statistics may take a long time to execute. This may be due to recent updates such as an upgrade of your Release Management Server where existing statistics may now be staled. By default, SQL Server already handles updating such statistics as needed. However, you can force this update manually in order to expedite the process. If you are experiencing such delays, consider updating the Release Management database query optimization statistics as follow...
Team Explorer Everywhere 2013 Update 2 is now available
Team Explorer Everywhere (TEE) enables developers to connect to Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio Online from Eclipse-based IDEs on Windows and non-Windows platforms, including Linux and Mac OS. This provides a great way to keep all of your teams, whether they are developing apps with .NET, Java, JavaScript, PHP, etc, centrally connected and managed. TEE also provides a cross-platform command line client (equivalent to “tf.exe”) for Windows and non-Windows platforms and a Java-based SDK. These tools together enable developers, even those not using Visual Studio, to utilize the capabilities of Team Foundati...
Now available Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 ALM Virtual Machine and how to connect it to Visual Studio Online
The Visual Studio ALM Virtual Machine is one of the primary (and best) tools for delivering ALM training and presentations we have at Microsoft and today Brian Keller announced that today we’ve published a new version of this great tool: Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 ALM Virtual Machine. This virtual machine includes several updates to the hands-on-labs / demo scripts to show off some of the new capabilities which have been added in Visual Studio Updates 1 – 3.For people who are interested, below is a high-level changelog which details the updates we’ve made in this version of the VM and lab...
A smorgasbord of great Webinars including: Performance and Load Testing Sept 18th
Steve Borg and Northwest Cadence has been doing a bunch of cutting work DevOps content and would love to share it w/ the world! Their new series kicks off tomorrow (Sept 18th) with: Performance and Load Testing Performance and load testing are critical components of building high quality and scalable software. Visual Studio Ultimate provides scalable out-of-the-box tools to load test, from large systems with thousands of users, to small applications with a few dozen. Whatever your needs, the Visual Studio Ultimate tools can deliver the performance testing that you require. This session will give you ...