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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...
CTP for Visual Studio Update 2 now available
VS2012 Update 2 Brings Symbol Improvements to Profiler and IntelliTrace
You will recall that VS2012 Update 1 brought a bunch of symbol loading improvements for your debugging scenarios, as documented in our previous two blog posts You’ll be happy to hear that with Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 we’ve taken these symbol related improvements one step further and applied them to more diagnostics scenarios. Specifically, the same symbol loading logic updated for the debugger in Update 1 is now used in the following scenarios improving both performance and usability: As always, we want to hear your feedback. Feel free to leave your comments below, and for general debugger, prof...
Exploratory Tests Auto Created from Product Backlog Item Acceptance Criteria
I was chatting w/ Anna Russo at the ALM Summit and just found she has done another GREAT tool for Testers - Auto Create Test Cases from PBI Acceptance Criteria Here is the excerpt from her Visual Studio Gallery Posthttp://www.improvingsoftwarequality.com/2013/01/new-tfs-tester-power-tool-auto-create.html************************************************************ TFS users put a lot of great information in the Acceptance Criteria field of the Product Backlog Item to ensure that the PBI meets a certain level of quality. Usually tester's then create test cases manually(boo!) so that they can report on the t...
More on Symbol Improvements in VS2012 Update 1
Hi, my name is Dmitri Leonov and I am an engineer on the VS debugger team. A couple of months ago with the Visual Studio 2012 Update 1, we shipped debugger improvements some of which were related to symbol and source loading as described in our previous blog post: “Debugger Source Symbol Improvements to Visual Studio 2012”. In this blog post I would like to take a little closer look at the performance and usability improvements around symbol loading in Visual Studio. Cancellable symbol load Symbol loading is truly cancellable now. This is especially useful when a valid symbol path becomes unreachable unexpecte...
UI Testing of Microsoft SharePoint 2013 with Visual Studio 2012
Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 provides complete record and play support through Coded UI Test for performing UI validations on Microsoft SharePoint 2013 applications. All the features provided by Microsoft SharePoint 2013 can be tested using Coded UI tests with few exceptions. Recording and playing back on a SharePoint application is no different from recording on any webpage on Internet Explorer as internally the Coded UI Test IE plugin is being used. This blog assumes that you are familiar with Coded UI Tests and know how to record, generate code and play it back. For further details on how...
Other enhancements in Microsoft Test Manager in Update 1
As part of the VS update 1 , apart from the few big features like supporting pause across sessions, support hierarchical queries for suite creation , inline editing , ability to detect/install updates etc, we have also made few minor enhancements. These enhancements were mainly driven by customer asks. And if you do have any more enhancements in mind for Microsoft Test Manager(MTM), you can put a suggestion at the uservoice website for us to consider. · Show count of test cases in test suite The count of test cases for the test suite is now shown next to the test suite title for a...
Meet the cloud diagnostics and analytics team while at the ALM Summit Jan 29-31
With the ALM Summit next week the Cloud Analytics Team would love to have a conversation with customers building Cloud based applications for our vNext planning efforts (i.e. talk to one of the teams working on the next generation of Visual Studio!). Please NOTE: Since we will be discussing our next generation of development tools this will be an NDA event( Please contact me if you don’t already have an NDA on file as you will not be allowed in with out one). As this is designed to be a conversation I will also be restricting the attendance to around 10 people. This event is scheduled Wednesday the 30...
Introducing window based smart match for Cross Browser Testing with Coded UI Test
Coded UI Test enabled Cross Browser testing with Visual Studio Update 1. You can have a look at this link for some introduction on for cross browser testing. As part of Visual Studio Update 2, several enhancements were added to this feature. One of them, being smart match for top level windows in cross browser testing. Coded UI Test already had this top level window smart match enabled for other technologies, smart match was brought on par with this for Firefox and Chrome. You can have a look at the initial post for this feature posted by Anutthara.Below is a brief description of the scenarios and small...