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The first Cloud Load Test and Application Insights class next week at QuickLearn
One of the ALM MVPs and old friends from Australia Anthony Borton (TFS Instructor) has created an entire set of courses around the latest Visual Studio Online Services including Build, Release Management, Application Insights and Cloud Load Test…and one of the nicest things about his courses you can attend either virtually or in person! Next week Anthony is running the first of these new offerings and has asked ME to help deliver the Cloud Load Test and Application Insights sections. My sections are specifically June 11th 9am to 12pm. I plan on using this time to do the following: 1. Tour of Ap...
Visual Studio 2015 Preview now available in the Virtual Machine Azure Gallery
(Editors Note: Updated the post 4/29/2015) With out a doubt the easiest and fastest way to get started with Visual Studio 2015 Release Candidate is to use the Azure virtual machine image that was also released today. This has gotten to be so mainstream that when we make preview builds available to our MVPs half of them are now choosing virtual machines as their experience of choice. Note: If you are using the Azure preview portal this Virtual Machine image will be available tomorrow. *********************** As recently as a year ago I couldn’t imagine what I would need cloud based resources for...
Perform diagnostic search across your logs – Now Improved!
You no longer have to install any agent on your server to use the fast diagnostic log search in Application Insights. You simply add Application Insights to your app project, together with an adapter for your favorite logging platform. Your log events are sent to the portal, where you can query them as you like, and get quickly to the root of any problem. At Application Insights, we help developers to understand if their live applications are available, performing and succeeding. We understand sometimes things don't go as expected. Too often you receive a frantic phone call from your operations team or a custome...
Announcing the New Application Insights Alerts Page
(Posting for one of the PMs on the Application Insights team Soubhagya Dash or just “Dash” as we call him in the hallways) We are excited to announce the new Alerts page user experience! This experience replaces the prior page and has been rebuilt ground up with significant back-end service improvements as well. Check it out! As always your feedback to help improve Application Insights is greatly appreciated. Like to know more? Read on…. Page Improvements 1. Trend and current assessments at a glance. See instantly: 2. Select up to 2 weeks date range to get perspective of recent hi...
Cloud Load Testing and Application Insights at the Software Developer Network Event 6-6 Netherlands
If you happen to be in the Netherlands June 6th and not fishing for Chinook off the coast of Washington (where I plan on being) make sure and check out the Software Developer Network Conference at the Achmea Conference Center in beautiful Zeist. Visual Studio Cloud Load Testing and Application InsightsApplication Insights solves the age old dilemma of not collecting enough information to be actionable vs. collecting so much information as to negatively impact your application. It does this through the integration of monitoring and development tools. This session will show how to quickly identify performance...
New from Imaginet: Timesheet for Visual Studio Online (VSO)
While my title indicates this is only for Visual Studio Online this great tool definitely still works with both Microsoft Team Foundation Server or Visual Studio Online. The newly modernized Imaginet Timesheet is an easy-to-use time tracking and reporting tool that is perfect for organizations already using TFS 2010, 2012 or 2013 or Visual Studio Online. As the creator of one of the first ever time tracking products for TFS, Imaginet has been the leader in TFS time recording and reporting. With this new release of Imaginet Timesheet for Team Foundation Server and VS Online, Imaginets continues to provide the sim...
Latest Microsoft Monitoring Agent
The Application Insights team has released a new agent for Application Performance Management scenarios. This updated agent is version 7.1.11196.0 and is available here. If you are already using version 7.1.11115.0 then upgrading to this agent can be done by uninstalling the old one and then installing the newer version (for Azure Cloud Services the new agent version will be updated when the role is recycled next). If you are using a version before 7.1.11115.0 then follow the instructions here. Here is a description of the changes: thanks, Vlad Joanovic Program Manager
Top things a new Visual Studio Online account owner should know
With Visual Studio Online, I realized I have not installed an On-premise Team Foundation Server in a while. The convenience of these online accounts always being available, having the server automatically upgraded, and of course access to services such as Cloud Load Test, Hosted Build and Application Insights takes it from an incredible inconvenience to a must have! Regardless if you just created your Visual Studio Online account or have been using it for a while here are some tips to help you out: · **Create a Team Project****** You now have access to a wide set of developer services, but before you start, m...
Code Map improvements in Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate Update 3 CTP1
Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 CTP1 brings improvements to Code Map and Debugger Map that you have requested via various feedback channels (user voice and connect in particular). In this Blog post I'll present: Improvements with the Debugger map zoom experience Debugger Map In Visual Studio 2013, we introduced Debugger Map, which provides a nice experience to present the call stacks, and even the call graphs from breakpoints into the debugger. A debugger map can also show traces from an IntelliTrace file, either collected standalone, or from Application Insights. If you are not familiar with Debugger Map pl...