{"id":36595,"date":"2017-10-13T17:11:55","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T17:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/devops\/?p=36595"},"modified":"2019-02-14T15:51:05","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T23:51:05","slug":"top-stories-from-the-vsts-community-2017-10-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/top-stories-from-the-vsts-community-2017-10-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Top stories from the VSTS community &#8211; 2017.10.13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/05\/image364.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"50\" height=\"57\" title=\"image\" style=\"border: 0px currentcolor\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/10\/image_thumb346.png\" border=\"0\"><\/a>&nbsp;<strong>TOP STORIES<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dynconcepts.com\/what-is-a-backlog\/\" target=\"_blank\">What is a Backlog?<\/a> \u2013 David Corbin<br>Seems like it should be pretty obvious. But is it really? \n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deliveron.com\/blog\/visual-studio-azure-functions-app-project-powershell\/\" target=\"_blank\">Visual Studio Azure Functions App Project for PowerShell<\/a> &#8211; Mike Douglas<br>In Azure, you can leverage server less computing using <a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/services\/functions\/\">Azure Functions<\/a>.&nbsp; Azure Functions provide a platform for deploying small bits of code. \n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/accentient.com\/blog\/which-tests-are-my-regression-tests\/\" target=\"_blank\">Which test are my regression tests?<\/a> &#8211; Richard Hundhausen<br>Although we can\u2019t help you decide which tests should be part of your regression suite, we can help you easily identify them by using tags.\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mattvsts.blogspot.com\/2017\/10\/re-release-to-environment-dont-spin-up.html\" target=\"_blank\">Re-release to an environment, don\u2019t spin up a whole new deployment!<\/a> &#8211; Matteo Emili<br>I know this happens on a regular basis \u2013 but it caught up my eye this morning as I am finishing up preparation for X-Celerate.de. Let\u2019s say your Release fails \u2026\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/visualstudioalmrangers\/2017\/10\/12\/visual-studio-team-services-bot-vsts-bot-is-now-in-preview\/\" target=\"_blank\">Visual Studio Team Services Bot (VSTS Bot) is now in Preview<\/a> &#8211; Jeffrey Opdam<br>I, VSTS-Bot, am happy to announce that starting from today I will be available as preview and my code is now available on GitHub. \n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.infoworld.com\/article\/3230285\/devops\/how-devops-changes-dev-and-ops.html#tk.rss_all\" target=\"_blank\">How DevOps changes both dev and ops<\/a> &#8211; Lucas Carlson<br>A combination of cultural transformation and automation is redefining the way developers and operations work together.\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/modern-age-appdev.blogspot.com\/2017\/09\/publishing-and-managing-your-npm.html\" target=\"_blank\">Publishing and Managing your NPM Packages with Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS)<\/a> &#8211; Andrew Kanieski<br>Writing packages in the JavaScript world historically has been troublesome. In recent years the introduction of NodeJS has breathed life into the JavaScript community and provided the community with the Node Package Manager, NPM.\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/exceptionnotfound.net\/how-to-restore-a-lost-source-control-binding-with-tfs-and-visual-studio-2017\" target=\"_blank\">How to Restore a Lost Source Control Binding with TFS and Visual Studio 2017<\/a> &#8211; Matthew Jones<br>I recently had a problem in which I could not add a new project to an existing solution which was bound to TFS source control. \n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/visualstudioalmrangers\/2017\/10\/10\/azure-function-integrating-monitoring-with-application-insights\/\" target=\"_blank\">Azure Function \u2013 Integrating monitoring with Application Insights<\/a> &#8211; Mikael Krief<br>In this last part of the series of blog posts on using Azure Function, we will introduce how we monitor our Azure Function thanks to Application Insights.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/05\/image548.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"50\" height=\"39\" title=\"image\" style=\"border: 0px currentcolor\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/10\/image_thumb529.png\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/strong><strong> VIDEOS<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/devops\/2017\/10\/09\/devops-with-azure-and-vsts-videos-from-ignite-2017\/\" target=\"_blank\">DevOps with Azure and VSTS: Videos from Ignite 2017<\/a> &#8211; Edward Thomson<br>If you weren\u2019t able to make it to Ignite, you can take advantage of the next best thing: you can watch the recordings of our sessions online.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/05\/image549.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"82\" height=\"50\" title=\"image\" style=\"border: 0px currentcolor\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/10\/image_thumb530.png\" border=\"0\"><\/a> STICKERS<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Do you like stickers? <\/strong>I\u2019ll personally send a few stickers to the first three (3) users to send the date on which the VSTS-Bot was announced to my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitter.com\/wpschaub\" target=\"_blank\">@wpschaub<\/a> twitter account. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>TIP<\/strong>: If you want to get your VSTS news in audio form then be sure to subscribe to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radiotfs.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">RadioTFS<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/05\/image366.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"50\" height=\"47\" title=\"image\" style=\"border: 0px currentcolor\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/10\/image_thumb348.png\" border=\"0\"><\/a>&nbsp;<strong>FEEDBACK<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What do you think? How could we do this series better?<br> Here are some ways to connect with us:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Add a comment below<\/li>\n<li>Use the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/vsts\" target=\"_blank\">#VSTS<\/a> hashtag if you have articles you would like to see included<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics. &nbsp;TOP STORIES What is a Backlog? \u2013 David CorbinSeems like it should be pretty obvious. But is it really? Visual Studio Azure Functions App Project for PowerShell &#8211; Mike DouglasIn Azure, you can leverage server [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":45953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[229,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-devops"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics. &nbsp;TOP STORIES What is a Backlog? \u2013 David CorbinSeems like it should be pretty obvious. But is it really? 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