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Free and unlimited project stakeholders, and organizational accounts for Visual Studio Online
Was just going through my email and noticed the announcement for two new features for Visual Studio Online: **************** Invite stakeholders to a project to keep them informed on what's happening with that team or project. They’ll have access to the team home page, where they can view updated project information. They’ll also have access to the backlog, taskboard, and Kanban board, where they can create and edit work items or work item queries. You can add unlimited stakeholders to your team projects at no charge – in addition to the five Visual Studio Online Basic users you get for fre...
Data-Driven Load Tests using Visual Studio Online and SQL Azure
Editors Note: While working in Australia I was blessed to work with some truly gifted technologists. In the SQL space David Lean was the local legend with the (deserved) reputation of being THE SQL Performance Guru. David has since left Microsoft but continue his cutting edge work with SQL Server and Application Tuning. Thanks for the great post on using SQL Azure and performance Testing David! -Chuck Data-Driven Load Tests using Visual Studio Online and SQL Azure Almost everyone who IT Operations for a large company can tell you war stories about apps whose performance died within 18 mths of goi...
PerfTips: Performance Information at-a-glance while Debugging with Visual Studio
Note: this post has been updated for Visual Studio 2015 RTM. You are probably all familiar with the debugger DataTips that let you see the value of a variable when you hover over it in the editor. This post introduces the new PerfTips feature in Visual Studio 2015 for C#/VB, and C++ developers on all Windows platforms. Why PerfTips? We have been releasing new and improved performance tools in the Performance and Diagnostics hub in Visual Studio 2013 that help you diagnose performance issues in your app. However, for many of you, the majority of your time is dedicated to getting the app to function correctly (a...
Application Insights – instrumentation approaches for running tests
[this summer Beckylin Orooji from the University of Central Florida in Orlando studying Computer Science interned with the Application Insights team in the developer division at Microsoft. Below is a blog she authored based on some end to end scenarios she worked on] In my scenario today I have a shopping website. I have made some changes to the checkout process and want to see if those changes have resulted in more people checking out. I want to make decisions based on the data I receive; depending on my results I will decide whether or not my changes were successful. Now, imagine you have two different versio...
Project Welcome Pages
We recently deployed a new feature to Visual Studio Online to help people get new team members started with a project and for people browsing the server to understand what a project is for and how to use it. We call the feature “Project Welcome Pages”. It’s very easy to tell when the feature had been enabled for your account, simply go to your project homepage and you’ll see a new “Welcome” tab has appeared next to the “Overview” page that you are used to. Don’t worry if you don’t see it quite yet, the way that our deployments work it may take while to roll out to everyone’s account but it is coming to yours ver...
IntelliTrace standalone collector is back!
As you probably already know, Visual Studio Ultimate offers an enhanced live debugging experience (F5 or Attach) through the use of IntelliTrace. Your application’s execution is recorded by IntelliTrace and you can navigate through time, both backwards and forwards, and examine your code as you normally would during a debugging session by interacting with the Locals and Call Stack windows. Since there is a balance to be found between the performance of the application and the verbosity of the debugging information, we give you two options to choose from: Once your desktop application is deployed to a clie...
Restrict Team Foundation Build permissions
Do you have code that should be seen by only a subset of members of your on-premises team project collection? Do you use Team Foundation Build (TFBuild)? If so, you must create some custom groups to reduce the risk that unauthorized team project collection members can use a build process to bypass team project permissions. Problem For example, you administer the following team projects: You want only the members of each team project to be able to read the code it contains, as shown above. However, by default, TFBuild controllers are collection-scoped resources, and so have permission to acces...
Work-items tracking using Release Management
Tracing what is new in a given release for a product is often tiresome and time taking task. With Microsoft Release Management 2013 Update 3 RC/RTM, you can achieve this easily through its “Change Summary” feature. Details of this feature is described below Change Summary feature details Manual Release When you start a new manual release from the Release Management client, it takes you to the Release page. Now, on this Release page, there is a new tab – Change Summary: Click on the Change Summary tab and it shows you the list of work-items that are new or changed in the current release (in progress). Th...
Microsoft’s journey to Cloud Cadence
Last week the Visual Studio product owner Sam Guckenheimer keynoted the Agile 2014 Conference. In his presentation he went through our teams changes/learning's to adopt a DevOps workflow. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to attend as we had several conferences here in Redmond/Seattle but luckily we can check it out online here: KEYNOTE: Journey to Cloud Cadence Also love the conversation about the session! https://twitter.com/lynnecazaly/status/493762682089406464/photo/1 Description: Sam describes a ten-year transformation at Microsoft Developer Division from a waterfallian box product ...