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Visual Studio Online Guidance for Consulting Teams and Systems Integrators
If you are a consulting team or systems integrator partner this post is for you. In the Visual Studio Online team we are aware that many of you are looking for ways to more efficiently deliver projects for your customers. It has been a very popular scenario in the adoption of Visual Studio Online. We are also aware that many of you are starting to adopt, or are already using Visual Studio Online and receiving the benefits of a fully managed Application Lifecycle Management platform that allows you to focus on building software, not managing infrastructure. As a result of this increased interest in Visual Studio ...
Installing the Application Insights tools for Visual Studio could win you cool prizes at Build
This year not only am I lucky enough to go to Build but I am going down with a bunch of cool prizes such as the new Arc Mice (I have been trying to get one of these since Christmas!!) or a Premium Turtle Beach Xbox One (noise canceling!) Gaming Headset Which begs the question: “How do I get one!?””: Day 1 Install Application Insights Tools for Visual Studio and enter to win one of many cool Bluetooth mice. These tools can be found at: https://aka.ms/aivsix (either by showing us your laptop or a screen shot of your install will suffice) Install Application Insights to your app with data flowing to...
Step by Step walk through of getting Application Insights Up and running
I am continually amazed the lengths that our MVPS go out of their way to help the community. At the last MVP summit one of the System Center MVPs, Kevin Greene, heard from his peers that there wasn’t a great walk through for getting stared with Application Insights. Rather than waiting for us he rolled up his sleeves and did his own!…Great job and a HUGE thank you Kevin! If you are getting started with Application Insights i highly recommend taking a look at his series…. Kevin asked me to look for any issues and the only thing i found is the fact the next ...
Free and great value ALM training on the West Coast
My buddy Steve is back out on the road doing what he does best –preaching about best practices in the ALM space. Northwest Cadence Complementary Webcast/Training events: Northwest Cadence In-Person events Northwest Cadence Training Offerings: Steven Borg | Northwest Cadence Co-Founder and Strategist |@stevenborg Steven Borg has 20 years of experience in the software development space and has been a Microsoft ALM MVP since product inception in 2005. Steven is the Co-Founder of Northwest Cadence, a company specializing in software ...
Visual Studio Online Best Practices: Troubleshooting issues with the “Eligible MSDN Subscriber” license type
As you adopt Visual Studio Online (VSO) and assign licenses to your users you may want to assign the “Eligible MSDN Subscriber” license type to team members. MSDN subscriptions are purchased outside of VSO and assigned to individual users. Before an MSDN subscriber can log in to VSO as an eligible MSDN subscriber, the subscription process must first be completed. The general flow looks like this: Sometimes though the team member may run into problems after this process. Specifically, they may log in only to see this message below and find that they have limited access to the account ("Stakeholder" lic...
Webinar: Cloud based performance, load, & stress testing March 20th
We received a lot of requests to redo the the load test Webinar…That being the case we have two more sessions: Thursday, March 20, 2014, 9:00 a.m. PST Not certain why the abstract was removed the invitation pages but here is what Manas and I will be going over: With the introduction of Visual Studio Online launched in November 2013, software engineering teams now have a set of services that are available to them that substantially reduced the effort releasing their applications. Chief among these new services is Cloud Load Testing Service which helps you easily discover performance is...
Visual Studio Online Load Test Troubleshooting Guide
Visual Studio Online Load Test Troubleshooting GuideLast Updated June 24 This guide has moved to FAQ for Cloud-Based Load Testing and will be maintained there going forward. Please refer to that page for the most recent content. GENERAL **1. How do I know the IP range of Test Agents used for my load run?**** **All the test agent machines are located in East US Azure data center. IP range of East US datacenter can be found here. Currently, you cannot determine the IP range of the Test Agent machines used for only your load test run. **2. Where are the load test results stored after download...
Using Application Insights for Windows Phone 8.0 Direct3D C++ Apps
You can currently use Application Insights to find out how people use your Windows 8.1 Store Apps & Managed Windows Phone 8.0 Apps. We’ve been asked about Phone 8.0 Direct3D C++ Apps as well, which the NuGet Package currently does not support. Here is a workaround that can enable you to use Application Insights for these apps. Download the NuGet Package Download the “Application Insights Telemetry SDK for Windows Phone Apps” NuGet package which contains the reference files we will use for our Direct3D C++ App. Once the package is downloaded, unzip and copy the “/build/wp80” folder to the solution directory ...
Enhancements to Debugging Exceptions with IntelliTrace in Visual Studio 2013
The Microsoft Monitoring Agent allows you to collect reliability and performance data for web applications and to review the data using IntelliTrace. With Visual Studio 2013 Update 2, we have added the ability to more easily navigate the diagnostics data related to an exception by using a CodeLens-enhanced Code Map view in combination with the existing IntelliTrace experience. Today when I start debugging by double clicking an exception from the summary page, on the call stack window I have to double click each stack frame to examine the parameters of the previous stack frame. This makes it tedious searching for...