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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...
Querying Lab Environments Using TFS Lab Management APIs
using System;using System.Collections.Generic;using Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client;using Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Lab.Client;namespace QueryLabEnvironment { classProgram { staticvoid Main(string[] args) { //Get reference to lab service TfsTeamProjectCollection tfsServer = newTfsTeamProjectCollection(TfsTeamProjectCollection.GetFullyQualifiedU...
Team Foundation Server 2013 Update 2 and Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 Release Candidate now available
This final release of Team Foundation Server 2013 Update 2 and release candidate of Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 has over 100 new features and over 30 in JUST in the ALM space alone! As many already know the developer division is now continually adding features to Visual Studio and these quarterly updates are our chance to both fix issues you have reported as well as release new value into the product. For more information please see: Final Team Foundation Server 2013 release: Release candidates: In this post I will highlight the Test and Monitoring tools supplied by Application Insight...
Did you uninstall Release Management Server and lose access to the Release Management client?
It can happen. If you uninstall the RM server and a client is still pointing to that server (one that is now no longer available, because you just uninstalled it), you will get this error message the next time you launch the client.You can recover by using ReleaseManagementConsoleAdjustConfigFile.exe, a new command line tool included with VS update 2. If you installed using all the defaults, you can find it here: C:Program Files (x86)Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0Release ManagementClientbinUse an administrative command prompt and run this command: ReleaseManagementConsoleAdjustConfigFile.exe -configfile...