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Quick IntelliTrace File Open from App Insights
As was introduced in the Details Page Feature Blog, the IntelliTrace Performance Details Page provides to the user thorough information as well as enhanced functionalities for previewing code and debugging. This post will focus on specific IntelliTrace files that are opened from Application Insights portal and the user experience when single performance events are analyzed within Visual Studio. Start at Details Page for Single Performance Event When analyzing performance events through Application Insights online, the user has the option of downloading data into a .itrace file to open in Visual Studio locally (...
Multiple Monitor Support for Windows Store Apps in Visual Studio 2013 Update 3
With Windows 8.1, you can drag and move Windows Store apps between multiple monitors. Prior to Visual Studio 2013 Update 3, launching and debugging Store apps from Visual Studio would always open it on the primary monitor. In Visual Studio 2013 Update 3, we have added persistence to remember which screen the Store app was occupying when you stop debugging. This means that your choice will be remembered when the app is closed with Visual Studio using Stop Debugging, Suspend, or Suspend and Shutdown. However, closing the app with Alt-F4, dragging to the bottom, using the new close button, or Task Manager will not r...
.NET Memory Analysis: Go to Source in Visual Studio 2013 Update 3
For those of you using .NET memory dump analysis to investigate memory issues and inspect values of objects and instances in your dumps, we have added a small improvement to bring you to your source in Visual Studio 2013 Update 3. If you have ever been examining your memory types and want to inspect the definition of a particular object or want to look at all the references of that object in your code, this feature will help you out. Go to Definition and Find All References You will need to have the corresponding source project opened with the .NET memory dump or .diagsesion file for this feature to be enabled....
Code Lens for Git in Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate Update 3
Yesterday we released Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 CTP1. This CTP brings new features in the area of CodeLens Team indicators. In this Blog post I'll present the CodeLens Team indicators for Git. CodeLens Team indicators CodeLens is a heads-up display in your Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate editor where you can find information about your code in context. If you are not familiar with CodeLens, please see the following MSDN article Get history and other info about your code. Some of the CodeLens indicator for Team Foundation Server Version Control (TfVc) enable you to quickly identify the changes that have happened o...
Test Plan and Test Suite Customization with TFS2013 Update3
One of the top feature requests from Microsoft Test Manager/Test Case Management users across various forums has been the ability to customize the Test Plan and Test Suite artifacts. Based on the feedback, with Team Foundation Server 2013 Update 3, we are adding the functionality to add custom fields and workflows to Test Plans and Test Suites, along with other new features such as change tracking and enhanced permissions. Customization for Test Plan and Test Suite artifacts: One of the key benefits of customization is the flexibility to align the workflows and fields of artifacts used for tracking activities w...
CodeLens Team Indicators – Processing Pipeline
IntroductionCodeLens is a heads-up display in your Visual Studio Editor where you can find information about your code in-context. See this MSDN article for an introduction to CodeLens - Get history and other info about your code.You can use the CodeLens Indicators to quickly identify the changes that have happened on the code and the authors of these changes. You can also see the code reviews, work-items and bugs associated with the changes. In addition, CodeLens will also show you incoming changes from other branches. These CodeLens Indicators (Changes, Authors, Code Reviews, WorkItems, Bugs & Incoming Chan...
Coded UI testing support for Silverlight using Visual Studio 2013
Many of you have been patiently waiting for an updated UI Test plugin for Silverlight that works with Visual Studio 2013. The wait is now over !Coded UI test plugin for Silverlight for use with Visual Studio 2013 is now available on VS gallery at http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/51b4a94a-1878-4dcc-81e0-7dc92131d2daIt works for browser hosted Silverlight 5 applications and supports Internet Explorer versions 8, 9, 10 and 11.You need Visual Studio 2013 RTM or Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 CTP1 or higher on the machine.Enjoy !
Release Management Update 3 CTP1 is now available with DSC Deployment Feature!
We have just published the CTP1 for Visual Studio Release Management 2013 Update 3. You can download this release here and read through the KB article here. With this update, you can use DSC (Desired State Configuration) to deploy apps to your environments. Using DSC, you can run Powershell scripts on target servers of an environment without having to install the deployment agent. You can deploy to both on-premise environments as well as Azure environments. A detailed walkthrough of using DSC to set up a release management template is provided in the attached tutorial document.  Note that this is a CTP, a...
Test controllers are not visible or marked offline in MTM when multiple versions of MTM are installed
When you have two or more versions of Visual Studio installed on a single machine and you try to use the newer version of mtm to connect to an older version of Test Controller, the Test Controller shows offline.The event log shows the following error message:Log Name: ApplicationSource: VSTTExecutionDate: 5/20/2014 2:58:45 AMEvent ID: 0Task Category: NoneLevel: ErrorKeywords: ClassicUser: N/AComputer: machineNameDescription:The description for Event ID 0 from source VSTTExecution cannot be found. Either the component that raises this event is not installed on your local computer or the installation is corrupted. ...