Azure DevOps Blog
DevOps, Git, and Agile updates from the team building Azure DevOps
Latest posts
Visual Studio 2010 Quick Reference Guide – Localised for Japan
The Japanese community, under the mentorship of Rex Tang (湯川 智彦), have localised the Visual Studio 2010 Quick Reference Guide. Release notes Rex Tang (湯川 智彦), Takaho Yamaguchi (山口 孝穂), Masashi Fujiwara (藤原 祐之), localized and reviewed the Quick Reference Guidance for the Japanese communities, based on http://vsarquickguide.codeplex.com/releases/view/52402. The Japanese guidance is available in AllGuides and Everything packages. The AllGuides package contains guidances in PDF file format, while the Everything package contains all files in PDF and Office 2007 file formats, including files necessary for localizati...
Visual Studio 2010 Branching Guide – Localized for Japan
The Japanese community, under the mentorship of Rex Tang (湯川 智彦), have localised the Visual Studio 2010 Branching Guide. Release notes Rex Tang (湯川 智彦), Takaho Yamaguchi (山口 孝穂), Hirokazu Higashino (東野 紘和), localized and reviewed the Branching Guidance for the Japanese communities, based on http://vsarbranchingguide.codeplex.com/releases/view/38849. The Japanese guidance is available in AllGuides and Everything packages. The AllGuides package contains guidances in PDF file format, while the Everything package contains all files in PDF and Office 2007 file formats, including HOL Lab files.
Installing the TFS Plug-in through the Eclipse Marketplace
Now-a-days most versions of Eclipse come bundled with the Eclipse Marketplace Client which is, by far, the easiest way to find and install new plug-ins into Eclipse. This includes Team Explorer Everywhere, the TFS Plug-in for Eclipse. Anyone can browse and search for Eclipse plug-ins by visiting the Eclipse Marketplace web site, where you can also find the Eclipse update sites (if available) to install the plug-in. But if you have the Eclipse Marketplace Client installed you can also browse, search and install from Eclipse. To see if you have the Eclipse Marketplace Client installed, go to Help and look for ...
Visual Studio 2012 RC – What’s new in Code Coverage
As product development adapts to the demands of continuous delivery models and agile methodologies, the developer is being entrusted with bringing in product changes with a higher quality bar. Besides strengthening processes to include quality checkpoints like gated check-ins, rolling builds and other regression checks, the developer can provide a higher degree of confidence in their code by ensuring that all product code changes are accompanied by a strong suite of unit tests. Test Driven Development (TDD) is one excellent step towards this. Since unit tests are owned and maintained by the developers, the...
Visual Studio 2012 RC – What’s new in Unit Testing
Unit Testing feature in Visual Studio 2012 has been very enthusiastically received by the developer community. Our focus during RC milestone was to respond to feedback we received from Visual Studio 11 Beta. This article talks about some of the new features that we have built during this milestone, many of which were driven by customer feedback. Smart Test Discovery Previously, when a test project was built, Test Explorer would perform an exhaustive search to discover the tests. Now we have implemented a Smart Test Discovery algorithm which significantly improves the time required for updates to appear on t...
Visual Studio Coded UI for Word Add-In v2 Sample Solution has shipped!
We are pleased to announce that we have released the sample solution with support for Visual Studio 2012 RC. Overview This project delivers practical and scenario based sample code and guidance for the Visual Studio Coded UI Microsoft Word Add-in, which extends the Coded UI feature support to Microsoft Word documents. Without this Add-in, the Coded UI feature has the following shortcomings: The add-in also provides the following functionalities for Coded UI: To get started, grab the Hand-On Lab, which steps you through building the solution and using it. Download Packages Team Andr...
Creating Team Foundation Server 2012 Lab Management Standard Environments and getting error “Verify that the machines are accessible using the user name and password provided”
Getting ready for Code Camp Seattle i decided to do a demo of Build-Deploy-Test using a non domain joined Windows 8 Release Preview machine as my lab management/hyper V Server creating a Windows 7 Standard Environment as my test environment. Unfortunately everything I did kept getting the error below in the verification step… “Verify that the machines are accessible using the user name and password provided” Turns out you MUST turn off something called “Remote User Access Control” in the Standard Environment machine if you are using a non domain joined computer….if you look closely the the error does give...
Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server 2012 Beta Overview class by David McKinstry June 27
Just got off the phone with one of my ALM MVPs, David McKinstry, and he mentioned he is offering a limited Beta offering of their Visual Studio & TFS 2012 Overview class…If you want to get up to speed on what is new in Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server 2012- this is the class for you! He also mentioned this will be a smaller than normal sitting and they only have limited seats left. Visual Studio & TFS 2012 Beta Overview ClassThis training will focus on the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) features in Visual Studio 2012 and Team Foundation Server, which will offer a proven ...
Wesley MacDonald with a LAP AROUND VISUAL STUDIO 2012 at Ottawa IT Community June 14
One of my MVPs from the great white North is delivering a end to end on Visual Studio 2012- I have known Wes for a while and this guaranteed to be a great show!Session Details below LAP AROUND VISUAL STUDIO 2012 Want to see what's around the corner for Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server? We shall cover some of the new features that have been added/improved in the product line such as Agile Project Management, Storyboarding and Collecting Stakeholder Feedback. See how you can use IntelliTrace in Production to help you diagnose issues in production. Go off road in Microsof...