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Just My Code for ASP.NET in Visual Studio 2013
Posting this on behalf of Patrick Nelson who is a developer on the Visual Studio Debugger team, and also thanks to Rob Paveza for his help with both of our post regarding JavaScript Just My Code Do you develop web apps? Do you hate when the debugger keeps stopping in code you don’t care about? Are you tired of accidently stepping into JQuery? In Visual Studio 2013 with Internet Explorer 11, we’ve added Just My Code for JavaScript to help with these very problems. In our previous blog post we announced Just My Code for JavaScript and discussed it in the context of Windows Store apps. In this complementary blog p...
Using a Visual Studio Web Test for availability monitoring in Application Insights
I am just wrapping up a week at the MVP Summit and one of the System Center MVPs asked me to walk him through creating a Web Test in Visual Studio and using it for Availability monitoring…Of course i promised to do this and as with most good intentions we ran out of time! I am hoping this blog post will make up for the fact we couldn’t do it during the session! (Cameron – pleasure meeting you!) Step 1: Creating the Web Test in Visual Studio This is pretty much a **File > New **exercise once you are in Visual Studio  After the project is created press the Red record button, record your actions and save the...
Case Study: Using froglogic for test UI automation with Java based applications and Microsoft Test Manager
In just the last month i have been asked three times for a case study or examples of how to test Java based systems using Microsoft Test Manager. Knowing one of the ALM MVPs, Marcel de Vries, is finishing up a very large Java project i reached out to him to find out how he just accomplished this. Despite the fact he was super busy with the Visual Studio launch in the Netherlands and Visual Studio Live in Florida he still managed to pen a blog post for the ALM Blog. Thank you Marcel!!!  ********************************************  In my daily work as an ALM consultant I get interesting challenges on...
First public drill down of Application Insights at DevTeach Vancouver
For the folks going to the largest developer conference in Canada, DevTeach; you are in for a real treat as you will be first people on the planet to see Application Insights in anger as the DevTeach organizers have graciously added a session for this exciting new topic. Unfortunately due to a family emergency i won’t be able to come and present this session (or my Test Session) but that is not all bad news for the attendees, as Vlad Joanovic who has been working on Application Insights from day one has offered to step in deliver this first public drill down since the announcement and the 5 ...
Announcing Application Insights Preview
Many folks have noticed I had practically stopped blogging. I have been working on one of the products Brian announced at the launch: Application Insights and as this service wasn’t in preview until today have not been able to blog about it. For those of you that weren’t able to make the launch, Application Insights is a set of services that provide actionable insight into a production application. This data is then integrated back into the development tools and process. These services include: To ensure all this data is actionable we surface it in a couple of different ways Out-side-in availabilit...
Load testing with Visual Studio Online – Launching Commercial Preview
As announced at Visual Studio 2013 launch, today we are launching the Commercial Preview for cloud-based load testing using Visual Studio Online (previously called Team Foundation Service). To get started, download Visual Studio Ultimate 2013 RTM. If you already have load tests that you run locally, you can run the same tests now using the service. If you haven't used load testing before, the getting started guide helps you quickly create one. Here are some links to get started and details on free usage limits and applicable charges during Commercial Preview.Getting Started links ...
Known issues with load testing in Visual Studio 2013
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We hope you have downloaded Visual Studio 2013 RTM and started using it to run your performance and load tests. One of the really cool features you should try out is the new cloud-based load testing we have introduced as part of Visual Studio 2013, which lets you generate load to test your app without having to worry about infrastructure setup. There are some minor irritants/bugs that a few users have reported while using load testing as part of Visual Studio 2013. If you have been affected by any of these issues, we are sorry for the inconvenience. We'll fix these problems at the first possible opportunity. Th...
Implementing Deployment Markers in Application Insights
Application Insights is a set of services that integrates production monitoring data with development tools. In many of the demos you will see us opening the solution and code file directly from the production data. For instance in the screenshot below I can click on those blue dots it will take me directly to the specific changeset used to create that deployment- this is done through deployment markers. Deployment markers are automatically generated by MSBuild – if you instruct it to do so. There are a couple of ways to give MSBuild parameters but since I wanted everything to continue working from within Vis...
TFS 2013 process templates get a name change
With the latest Team Foundation Service update and with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2013 RTM, we have changed the names of all process templates. From now on, the process template names will reflect the version of Team Foundation Server that supports their download.The new names are: You can access process guidance and charts that compare the features of each template here: Work with team project artifacts, choose a process template.Major and minor version numbers still remain in the ProcessTemplate filesWhile the names have changes, the major and minor version numbers remain intact.&n...