{"id":1863,"date":"2014-02-12T04:37:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T04:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/visualstudioalm\/2014\/02\/12\/announcing-new-application-lifecycle-readiness-content-by-the-alm-rangers\/"},"modified":"2019-02-14T17:49:29","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T01:49:29","slug":"announcing-new-application-lifecycle-readiness-content-by-the-alm-rangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/announcing-new-application-lifecycle-readiness-content-by-the-alm-rangers\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing new Application Lifecycle readiness content by the ALM Rangers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ALM Rangers have been involved with a bunch of recent Visual Studio 2013 readiness content to help people get up to speed. <\/p>\n<p>1. The <b><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/willy-peter_schaub\/archive\/2014\/01\/08\/better-unit-testing-with-microsoft-fakes-ebook-update-v1-2-posted.aspx\"><font color=\"#0000ff\">Better Unit Testing with Microsoft Fakes \u2013 eBook update v1.2<\/font><\/a><\/b> .&#160; Big thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/willy-peter_schaub\/archive\/2010\/09\/28\/introducing-the-visual-studio-alm-rangers-michael-fourie-also-known-as-mike.aspx\">Michael Fourie<\/a>, we have been able to action the backlog of community feedback for recent versions and package as part of the v1.2 eBook update<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/ebookFakes\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/02\/7217.image_2C5754B3.png\" width=\"121\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2. <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/willy-peter_schaub\/archive\/2014\/02\/06\/lab-management-guide-v3-update-is-available.aspx\"><font color=\"#0000ff\">Lab Management Guide \u2026 v3 update<\/font><\/a>, which features an interesting lab for Lab Management Standard Environment using Azure IaaS.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/02\/4087.image_6302A132.png\" width=\"125\" height=\"160\" \/><\/p>\n<p>3. There is a great collection of Visual Studio 2013 getting started videos now available in FIFTEEN different languages developed by the Cloud &amp; Enterprise International Team. <\/p>\n<p>Special thanks to <strong>Carsten<\/strong> Kneip, for making me aware of these gems on Channel9, and <strong>Shawn<\/strong> Donat, for being the main driver.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/willy-peter_schaub\/archive\/2014\/02\/03\/localised-video-gems-for-visual-studio-2013-get-the-popcorn.aspx\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/02\/2577.image_thumb_64B7E4BC.png\" width=\"197\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/willy-peter_schaub\/archive\/2014\/02\/03\/localised-video-gems-for-visual-studio-2013-get-the-popcorn.aspx\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/02\/0116.image4_thumb_4262DFF4.png\" width=\"189\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>4. Last but definitely not least the Team Foundation Server 2013 Customization <a href=\"http:\/\/www.packtpub.com\/team-foundation-server-2013-customization\/book\"><font color=\"#0000ff\">book<\/font><\/a> is now available and written by our very own \u201cNever sleeps Ranger\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/willy-peter_schaub\/archive\/2013\/07\/04\/introducing-the-visual-studio-alm-rangers-gordon-beeming.aspx\"><font color=\"#0000ff\">Gordon Beeming<\/font><\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.packtpub.com\/team-foundation-server-2013-customization\/book\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Team Foundation Server 2013 Customization\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/02\/7142EN_Team20Foundation20Server20201320Customization.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more great Ranger readiness content please see: <a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/vsarsolutions\"><font color=\"#0000ff\">https:\/\/aka.ms\/vsarsolutions<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ALM Rangers have been involved with a bunch of recent Visual Studio 2013 readiness content to help people get up to speed. 1. 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