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Using Coded UI to test XAML-based Windows Phone apps
In order to ship a great quality app to the Store, it is essential that you test it and flush out the bugs. End to end scenario tests when automated can help you ensure that any regressions in the app are caught early. With Visual Studio 2013 Update 2, you can now write automated end-to-end tests for your app using Coded UI Test. In Visual Studio 2013, Coded UI Test support for XAML-based Windows Store apps was enabled and the experience to use Coded UI test for Phone apps is largely the same. This post walks you through the essentials of creating a Coded UI test for your XAML-based Phone app. Getting Sta...
Phone Debugging in Visual Studio 2013 Update 2
Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 introduced several exciting changes for mobile development. You are now able to use the same programming model that you use to build Windows Store apps for Windows 8.1, to build XAML apps Windows Phone 8.1. In this post, I will remind you of the most important diagnostic capabilities that you will know from Windows Store apps development, that now apply to Windows Store apps on Windows Phone 8.1. You can find many existing Store App resources from the Windows Dev Center. Debugging Features Windows Store apps: Process Lifecycle Management (PLM) Suspend, Resume, and Suspend and Shutd...
Release Management – Continuous Deployment with Visual Studio Online and any CI Systems
[Update: The technique described below is only valid for Agent-Based release templates. To achieve similar behavior for vNext release templates, follow the instructions from the article Trigger Release from build with Release Management for Visual Studio 2013 Update 3.] Visual Studio Release Management 2013 Update 2 RC release ships with an updated Release command line tool. The new options of that command line tool opens new possibilities in terms of continuous deployment (triggering a Release from a check-in/build). You can now trigger a Release from any CI Server. You can also implement continuo...
Cloud Load testing with Visual Studio Online – Launching General Availability
As announced with the build conference we are launching the General Availability for cloud load testing using Visual Studio Online.Here are some links to get started and details on free usage limits and applicable charges with General Availability. Getting Started links New Highlights With the integration of the Application Insights and Cloud Load Testing it is much easier to see what is happening inside your application and trouble shoot any issues discovered. Please see the Channel9 video for a complete walk through on getting this setup: https://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Application-Insights-fo...
Diagnosing Mobile Website Issues on Windows Phone 8.1 with Visual Studio
If you have spent time trying to make a compelling mobile version of your website you have likely hit issues with it not looking or working correctly on mobile browsers. To help with this on Windows Phone, we’re very excited to announce that in Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 we have enabled the use of Visual Studio’s debugging and performance tools for Internet Explorer on Windows Phone 8.1. In this post, I’ll walk you through using these new capabilities. Before I begin it is important to note that this walkthrough requires you to have installed Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 RC. Creating the Sample To il...
Performance Profiling on Windows Phone 8.1 with Visual Studio
We are very excited to announce that we have added support for performance profiling of Windows Phone XAML and JavaScript apps to the Performance and Diagnostics hub. You can transfer your existing skills and use the same set of tools which work for Windows Store apps to analyze the performance of Windows Phone XAML and JavaScript apps. In this post, I will show you how to use the Performance and Diagnostics hub tools on phone. You will need to have Visual Studio Update 2 RC for this walkthrough. Creating the Sample To illustrate how to use these tools I’ll start by creating a Windows Phone app fro...
Case study: Application Performance Monitoring with Application Insights
James Beeson, Alan Wills - Our group runs about 20 web applications, serving a community of about 100k users spread around the world. Since we started using Application Insights, we’ve found we have a much clearer view of our applications’ performance, and as a result, our users are seeing better performing and more useful apps. This post tells you about our experiences. We're pretty agile. We run a three-week sprint, and we adjust our plans for future sprints based on the feedback we get from the current release. The data we get from Application Insights broadly answers two questions about a web app: We...
Visual Studio Release Management 2013 Update 2 RC now available
We have announced the public availability of Visual Studio Release Management 2013 Update 2 RC today. Besides various minor fixes and enhancements, this release simplifies deployment of your applications to groups of servers, and triggering releases from third party systems. Let us talk about each of these features. Deploying to groups of servers Most of the applications have multiple tiers, and each tier has several servers. In order to deploy a component to all the servers in a tier, until now, you had to author the same deployment sequence with the same set of steps on each server. Not only was this laboriou...
Create Lab Environment using TFS Lab Management APIs
using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using System.Threading.Tasks; using Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client; using Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Lab.Client; namespace LabEnvironmentCreation { classProgram { staticvoid Main(string[] args) { //Get reference to lab service TfsTeamProjectCollection tfsServer = newTfsTeamP...