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DevOps virtual machine with Team Foundation Server 2012 and System Center 2012 now available
Hands down one of the best training tools Microsoft has for Application Lifecycle Tools is Brian Keller’s virtual machines. Today Brian released another of these virtual machines -this one focused on the integration between System Center 2012 Operations Manager and Team Foundation Server 2012. In addition to the hands-on-lab / demo script he has also produced a DemoMate (online DemoMate | offline DemoMate installer) version so you can watch these scenarios by clicking through a series of interactive screens. To download the entire virtual machine with labs please see: External URL: https://aka....
Create, Connect, and Publish using Visual Studio with Git
// <!-- Create, Connect, and Publish using Visual Studio with Git --> By: Andy Lewis and Matthew Mitrik (MS) In the few days since we announced Visual Studio and Team Foundation Service support for Git, it's been exciting to see so much interest, along with a lot of great feedback and questions. We will take your feedback to help us guide how we evolve the tools and the service; so please keep it coming. And as for the questions, we hope that you will find in this post some answers to help you make the most of our Git tools in Visual Studio and our Git service in TFS. Before we begin, let's recall a k...
Debugging Unhandled Exceptions in a SharePoint App with Visual Studio using IntelliTrace
Following on from our last blog post on IntelliTrace enhancements for SharePoint, in this blog post we’ll talk about how the new analysis section for SharePoint can help you find the source of issues faster. The New Analysis Section IntelliTrace is very good at providing a lot of data to you for debugging, but there is such a thing as “too much” data. When a lot of information is available, it can be hard to figure out what to look for and how to find it. To help you pinpoint bugs more quickly, we’ve added an Analysis section to the IntelliTrace Summary Page, which is the first thing that you will see when you ...
Microsoft Internal Usage of TFS: July – December 2012
Visual Studio Update 2 Team Foundation Server feature -Work Item Tagging
Unfortunately we don’t have a level above MVP is for recognizing community contributions; if we did Tarun would clearly have achieved that award too. Thanks for the post Tarun! ************************************ Microsoft has just switched the flag ON and released a whole bunch of new features in CTP for Visual Studio Update 2 release. In this blog post I’ll be talking about some practical uses of ‘Work Item Tagging’. Work Item Tagging – “New work item tags provide categorization and filtering of work items. Easily add tags to items and then filter by them in both backlog and work item query...
Improvements in Windows Store Unit Tests: Test Exceptions in Async Lambda Expressions, Run Tests on the UI Thread
Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 includes support for unit testing managed Windows Store apps and includes unit test library templates for Visual C#, Visual Basic and Visual C++. For more information about these, see Creating and Running Unit Tests for Windows Store Apps. The namespace Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestPlatform.UnitTestFramework contains a rich set of asserts that can be used inside the TestMethod.The CTP2 release of VS Update2 adds two new features in the Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestPlatform.UnitTestFramework.AppContainer namespace to make unit testing Window Store apps even easier: Download the CTP2...
Fixes for TFS 2012 Update 1 (aka Cumulative Update 1 for Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012 Update 1)
We have now released a patch with a set of fixes for TFS 2012 Update 1. Many of you saw that we released a patch in early January and then pulled it down. This is the re-release.Shipping major changes to the server on this much faster cadence has been a learning experience for us. Brian wrote about some of the lessons we learned here. It turns out, we still had more to learn in Update 1, as we were not ready to service the product (when you can’t install a patch for the non-default location, you aren’t ready!). We found other issues through testing, including installing the patch on the Developer Divi...
Windows Phone Unit Tests in Visual Studio 2012 Update 2
Unit Testing is an important part of the application development life cycle for any platform. Visual Studio users no longer need to depend on 3rd party frameworks for unit tests on Windows Phone. The Windows Phone Unit Test framework delivered in CTP2 of Visual Studio Update 2 provides a consistent experience for developers to author, run and debug tests for Windows Phone 8 platform. This article walks you through the steps to start unit testing on Windows Phone. Prerequisites Note: You need a 64 bit Windows 8 physical machine (with Hyper-V enabled) to run unit tests on Windows Phone Emulator. One Framew...
Getting Started with Git in Visual Studio and Team Foundation Service
By Matthew Mitrik (MS), Andy Lewis, and Martin Woodward Today we announced the availability of Git for Visual Studio and Team Foundation Service. In this post, we'll walk through the new experiences. Get set up: Get the free service, and then you can use it with any Git client tools you want, including Visual Studio. To use the Visual Studio client tools you'll need to install Visual Studio 2012, apply Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 CTP, and finally install Visual Studio Tools for Git. You can use these client tools with any Git service you want. Choose between TFVC and Git With this announcement, ea...