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Kanban customizable columns, “under the hood”
Kanban customizable columns was made publicly available on the March 4 service update, and will be available in the RC version of VS Update 2. You can read the release notes for an overview of the feature itself. The purpose of this blog post is to talk about what’s going on under the hood of this new feature. With this feature, we’ve added an additional data element called “Kanban Column”. This stores which column on the team’s kanban board the work item is in. This is separate from, but related to the State field. When designing this feature, we considered just adding another field to the User Story / Requir...
March CTP (“CTP4”) of Visual Studio Update 2 now available
Visual Studio Updates are a mechanism we are using to provide ongoing value throughout the year to our Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server customers. These updates will provide features to support the latest software trends in the market, and also offer an easy way to deploy bug fixes. In Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 we are focusing on Modern Application Lifecycle and Modern App Development. The March CTP or CTP4 will likely be the last CTP before formally releasing Visual Studio Updat2 and can be downloaded here: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=273878 Of course the purpos...
ALM Rangers ship guidance for Microsoft Fakes, TFS Disaster Avoidance and updates to two other guides
We are pleased to announce that we have shipped two new exciting projects introducing practical guidance on the use of Microsoft Fakes and for Team Foundation Server (TFS) disaster recovery avoidance, planning and step-step recovery walkthroughs for the worst case scenarios. New Updates In addition we have released updates for the Coded UI test tooling guide to introduce reporting as a key aspect of the ALM Process, and one of the ways to evaluate, measure, track, and ultimately tell if the software tested is ready for release. Also updates to the TFS Upgrade guide to include new in-the-field e...
How to profile a XAML Windows Store App
If you are developing a Windows Store App using XAML (whether it’s C++, C#, or VB), there is a good chance there will be areas of your app where you would like to improve the performance. To assist with this, we’ve included the Visual Studio CPU profiler in all SKUs of Visual Studio capable of developing Windows Store Apps (this means we’ve moved the CPU profiler from being a Visual Studio Premium feature, to including it Visual Studio 2012 Professional and Visual Studio 2012 Express for Windows 8). In this post I’ll walk you through how to use the CPU profiler to identify areas of your code that are being execut...
Customize Git settings in Visual Studio
// By: Andy Lewis and Matthew Mitrik Today we're here to help you: Got the latest version of Visual Studio with Git? If not, click here. To use the Visual Studio client tools you'll need to install Visual Studio 2012, apply Visual Studio 2012 Update 2, and finally install Visual Studio Tools for Git. If you want to use Team Foundation Service, you can sign up for free. You can specify three kinds of Git settings, listed in order of supersedence: For more details on Git settings, see Customizing Git - Git Configuration and git-config command. Go to the page where you can tune your setting...
Dungeons and Dragons Process Template
At various events, including TechEd 2012, Gregg and I have talked on customizing the Agile Planning Tools. The talk shows you can customize to Agile Planning Tools to fit any process, and to prove that we have created a Process Template that is completely different from anything we ship. Because we get the request so now and then for a copy of that template, we thought it would be good to share it with you. MS Dungeons and Dragons 1.0.zip
Native debugging for ARM dumps
One of the areas that we have improved in VS2012 updates is dump debugging. In this post, I will explain dump debugging feature specific to the ARM architecture. We want to enable all developers who are building Windows Store applications targeting the Surface RT and other ARM devices. Even though we had the live debugging support for apps targeting ARM from day one, dump debugging needed additional work that we were able to do post-RTM. Arm Dump debugging support allows developers to investigate crashes and other bugs that occur on the customer’s device. Debugging an existing ARM dump As a first step to achie...
What do you mean “This topic is no longer available” ?
First off - sorry that you reached this page and are not able to easily find what you need. When you reach this page, it doesn't necessarily mean that the feature is no longer supported or that content is not available for it. For several releases, we've been streamlining our content with the goal to better support your information needs. As a result, many topics that existed in VS 2005, VS 2008, or VS 2010 don't appear for VS 2010 or VS 2012. What to do when you reach this page... Links to topics containing consolidated content for Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management and Team Foundati...
Testing devices made easier with Perfecto Mobile’s MobileCloud™ platform and Team Foundation Server
A common pain point for today’s development teams is procuring and testing the plethora of devices modern applications are now running on. To ensure the highest quality for their business-critical mobile apps, development teams require robust mobile testing solutions that address the complexities of multi-platform development in a highly fragmented mobile market. While solving just this problem would be “nice”, without integration back into the over-all application lifecycle a silo solution simply wouldn’t enable the agility and release intervals demanded by todays’ markets. In a nut shell most development teams...