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Running IntelliTrace on Applications in Production

March 16, 2012 Mar 16, 2012 03/16/12

Esther Fan

After we released IntelliTrace in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate, customers commonly asked us about debugging applications with IntelliTrace outside Visual Studio or Microsoft Test Manager. This can be very useful in an environment where your application has a repeatable problem, but you can’t attach a debugger, and you have to dig into ...

March 21st MN User Group: Visual Studio 11 Beta Upgrade Pleasant Surprises and Lessons Learned

March 15, 2012 Mar 15, 2012 03/15/12

Charles Sterling

While at the TAP kick off I spoke with Dave about doing a presentation on Intertech’s lessons learned while upgrading to Visual Studio 11 Beta- and he has finally found time March 21st at the MN User Group…Should be a great meeting!Session Abstract: Dave Zimmerman has been a part of the TAP program which began with a presentation/...

The Code Index SDK – Part 2 – Bulk indexing assemblies into the code index

March 15, 2012 Mar 15, 2012 03/15/12

Importer

Note that this post was updated on June 5th to provide updates concerning the Visual Studio 2012 RC. The changes are highlighted.In my last post, I’ve introduced the Code Index, explaining why use it, and how to get it. This post is about the first scenario that I mentioned: bulk indexing assemblies into the code Index. This topic ...

Various test attachment size reduction features in MTMTFS 11

March 15, 2012 Mar 15, 2012 03/15/12

Gautam Goenka [MSFT]

Some of you may have faced the problem of test attachments growing too fast in TFS with Microsoft Test Manager (MTM).  As you know, the test attachments can be cleaned using Test Attachment Cleaner tool which is part of TFS Power Tools.  However, even with the cleaner tool, the experience is not ideal and based on feedback, we did ...

Mar 21 Developer Breakfast in Sydney, New South Wales: Getting the Most out of TFS

March 14, 2012 Mar 14, 2012 03/14/12

Charles Sterling

When I was based in Australia the crew down at Readify always put on a good show. I see March 21st they have a breakfast on Getting the Most out of TFSREGISTER NOWSession Abstract: The ability to deliver high quality applications that add value to business is dependent on the Application Lifecycle Management implemented.  Agile/Scrum ...

Changing the default number of tasks displayed on the taskboard

March 14, 2012 Mar 14, 2012 03/14/12

Susan - Team Foundation Server

Whether you've installed the beta or signed up for the hosted service, you've probably seen the new taskboard feature, one of the new planning and tracking tools. Hopefully you've started playing with all these tools, adding items to your backlog, creating tasks, and moving tasks from one state to another. Maybe you've shown your teammates ...

Test Case Migrator Plus V1.2 released

March 13, 2012 Mar 13, 2012 03/13/12

Gautam Goenka [MSFT]

We have completed the release of the Test Case Migrator Plus (V1.2 RTM) on CodePlex.What's new for the V1.2 RTM version...

What’s new for MSTest unit tests in Visual Studio 11 Beta

March 13, 2012 Mar 13, 2012 03/13/12

Importer

In an earlier post we detailed the fresh approach we have taken with unit testing in Visual Studio 11. You can now pick and choose the test framework of your choice and use it from within the Visual Studio experience in a fully integrated manner. While we have done a lot of work on the new experience and a new extensible platform, we have also...

The Code Index SDK

March 13, 2012 Mar 13, 2012 03/13/12

Jean-Marc Prieur

This blog post was updated in Dec 2016 to explain what changed with Visual Studio 2017. More in: The visual Studio Modeling SDK is part of Visual Studio 2017 Introduction In Visual Studio 11 Ultimate, the experience around the architecture diagrams has improved a lot, with respect to Visual Studio 2010. In particular, performance and ...

ALM Quick Reference Guide BETA has shipped!

March 12, 2012 Mar 12, 2012 03/12/12

Willy-P. Schaub

We are pleased to announce that we have released another one of the ALM Rangers Visual Studio 11 Readiness “Gig” projects, which delivers quick references which started in 2009 with a request from Steven van Niekerk (Technical Lead / Architect, South-Africa) initiated this project with his question “Can you tell me about TFS and VSTS in ...