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Visual Studio 2013 RC ALM courses available from training partner Quicklearn
One of the ALM MVPs Anthony Borton (TFS Instructor) has created an entire set of courses around Visual Studio 2013…and one of the nicest things about his courses you can attend either virtually or in person!Here is more information about these courses: *********************************************************** The Release Candidates (RC) for Visual Studio 2013 and Team Foundation Server 2013 are now available for download from the MSDN Library. These new releases bring a suite of new and enhanced capabilities to help your development team succeed.Some of our favorite new features, in no partic...
Start learning the concepts of DevOps & Release Management
This blog post has moved to ALM Rangers blog on https://aka.ms/vsarNews4, where we introduce the solution in combination with the upcoming the Patterns & Practices book “Building a Release Pipeline with TFS ” – it’s a great way to start learning the concepts of DevOps & Release Management for TFS 2012 and to kick the tires in implementing it.
Visual Studio 2013 Release Candidate now available for download
I am extremely pleased to announce the availability of Visual Studio 2013 release candidate for download. This release includes new tools for line of business applications, Web applications, games, mobile devices, services and of course applications targeting our latest platform Windows 8.1.** **With the Visual Studio 2013 Release Candidate (RC) and Windows 8.1 RTM for MSDN and TechNet subscribers, developers now have everything they need to start building and testing the next generation applications for the Windows Platform. For those of you that don’t want to read the blog post and get started right way yo...
Verification step of Standard Environment creation fails with team foundation server Lab Management can give error “Microsoft Test Manager can not install agent on the machine because another environment is being created using the same machine”
This issue occurs when you try to create a lab environment using a machine and another environment creation is in progress using the same machine. Cause : While environment creation is happening "TestAgentInstaller" service gets created, which does automatic agent install and configure, once these operations are done it gets self destructed. If this service is not destructed for some reason and if the same machine is being repurposed for another environment then Lab Management thinks machine is part of another environment creation and reports above error message. Workaround: Perform the following a...
Visual Studio Unit Test Generator v1 “lands”
The ALM Rangers are pleased to announce the landing of the Visual Studio Unit Test Generator v1. Looking for unit test code generation? The Visual Studio Unit Test Generator helps to increase developer productivity by decreasing the setup work involved in creating new unit tests. It takes away the routine test creation tasks allowing a developer to focus on the highest value, writing the test itself. Visual Studio Unit Test Generator provides the ability to generate and configure a test project, test class, and test stub to enable you to get to write your test sooner. It provides a set of configuration options...
TFS Internal Usage Statistics – 1st Half CY 2013
Coded UI Test Gesture support in Visual Studio 2013
As part of Coded UI Test’s support for windows store apps introduced in Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 as detailed in this blog , there is now playback support for touch gestures on Windows Store Apps. These gestures are only a simulation and hence one would not need to have a touch monitor to use these API’s. Currently these API’s can only be used under the CUIT for Windows store project. All the members in this family of Coded UI Test gesture API’s have two modes of operation so to speak: In the former case the way a gesture searches for a control is similar to how a CodedUITest Mou...
Releasing a Planning Poker Application and multi sprint burn down chart
The ALM MVPs were busy today as they released two different tools designed to help agile teams work better. Sprint Burndown+ The first tool is a visual studio gallery extension called Sprint Burndown+. This extension enables development teams to view all their #sprints on a single timeline. Sprint Burndown plus not only shows all the team sprint Burndown charts plotted on one time line, but it offers you the ability to format this data. Features: Watch this 5 minute introductory video – | read more about it here According to the authors, Tarun Ar...
ALM Readiness Treasure Map – Release 2 available in the Windows Store
The ALM Rangers are pleased to announce the landing of the second release of the ALM Readiness Treasure Map Windows Store App, which was certified and released on August 1st and is now featured in the Windows Store. It provides a master catalogue (treasure map) of the available ALM Readiness content to guide you through the process of becoming proficient in ALM practices. Find the Windows Store application here: Download the v1 paper map or the v1 and/or v2 sample code from Please send candid feedback! Which features do you need in the next version? What do you like and dislike in the current...