{"id":44055,"date":"2018-05-25T16:13:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T16:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/devops\/?p=44055"},"modified":"2019-02-14T15:49:57","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T23:49:57","slug":"top-stories-from-the-vsts-community-2018-05-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/top-stories-from-the-vsts-community-2018-05-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Top stories from the VSTS community &#8211; 2018.05.25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics, listed in no specific order:<\/p>\n<p><strong>TOP STORIES<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wintellect.com\/chip-off-ol-blockchain-part-3-setup-ci-cd-pipeline-vsts-truffle\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chip Off The Ol\u2019 Blockchain \u2013 Part 3: How to Setup a CI\/CD Pipeline with VSTS and Truffle<\/a><br><strong>Blaize Stewart<\/strong> outlines how to use VSTS to create a simple pipeline for Solidity and Truffle.\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/beeming.net\/uncategorized\/2018\/5\/a-journey-worth-taking\" target=\"_blank\">A journey worth taking<\/a><br><strong>Gordon Beeming<\/strong> goes over the last 10 years, how he applied a little self-control and motivation. He shares a personal insight into how he sustains himself and keeps on a good path. <br><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/05\/clip_image00113.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"102\" title=\"clip_image001\" style=\"border: 0px currentcolor\" alt=\"clip_image001\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/05\/clip_image001_thumb11.png\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deliveron.com\/blog\/test-case-association-xunit-nunit-and-mstestv2-tests-available-visual-studio-2017-1571\/\" target=\"_blank\">Test Case Association to xUnit, NUnit, and MSTestV2 Tests is available in Visual Studio 2017 15.7.1<\/a><br><strong>Mike Douglas<\/strong> discusses how you can choose the test automation approach that best fits your process and not base it on a tool limitation.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.nfocussoftwaretesting.com\/testing-the-test-plan-template\" target=\"_blank\">Testing The Test Plan Template<\/a><br><strong>Jane Kelly<\/strong> introduces a platter of benefits of using a test plan template, such as a guide and reminder on what has been agreed.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/05\/clip_image00223.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" title=\"clip_image002\" style=\"border: 0px currentcolor\" alt=\"clip_image002\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/05\/clip_image002_thumb19.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mattvsts.blogspot.ca\/2018\/05\/small-details-carrying-huge-value.html\" target=\"_blank\">Small details carrying a huge value<\/a><br><strong>Matteo Emili<\/strong> thought about how easy it has become to customise a process with VSTS compared to TFS. The first thing that sprung to mind was to pair this up with the Board Styling options.\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/montemagno.com\/continuous-integration-delivery-for-net-libraries-with-vsts\/\" target=\"_blank\">Continuous Integration &amp; Delivery for Xamarin &amp; .NET Libraries with VSTS<\/a><br><strong>James Montemagno<\/strong> shares how he settled on using VSTS to fully automate the build of every library he creates and a full distribution pipeline that goes to MyGet then to NuGet preview, and finally NuGet public release with a click of a button. <br><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JamesMontemagno\/status\/994661764909289472\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"107\" title=\"clip_image003\" style=\"border: 0px currentcolor\" alt=\"clip_image003\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/05\/clip_image0037.png\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/visualstudioalmrangers\/2018\/05\/25\/vsts-gems-preview-features\/\" target=\"_blank\">VSTS Gems \u2013 Preview Features<\/a><br><strong>Rui Melo <\/strong>introduces preview feature, allowing you to control new functionalities that\u2019s ready for your account.<br><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"212\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/05\/gem_previewfeature_1menuoption.png\"><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jimszubryt.com\/2018\/05\/24\/my-microsoft-build-videos\/\" target=\"_blank\">My Microsoft Build Videos<\/a><br><strong>Jim Szubryt<\/strong> had the opportunity to speak at Build this month on their use of Service Fabric and how they are leveraging VSTS.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong> PODCASTS<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.relay.fm\/rocket\/174\" target=\"_blank\">#174: Git Champions<\/a><br><strong>Lori Lamkin<\/strong> sits down on the Rocket podcast to talk VSTS &#8211; and Lori sums it up perfectly: &#8220;VSTS is a set of collaboration tools for developers to get stuff done&#8221;. <br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.relay.fm\/rocket\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" title=\"clip_image001\" style=\"border: 0px currentcolor\" alt=\"clip_image001\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/05\/clip_image0015.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/05\/image265.png\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>VIDEOS<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/twitter\/statuses\/999314088458162176\" target=\"_blank\">Join<\/a> Buck Hodges at the <a href=\"http:\/\/globaldevopsbootcamp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Global DevOps Bootcamp<\/a> on June 16 2018 in a city near you &#8211; get hands on and learn how we deploy to Azure using VSTS.<br><a href=\"\/\/d.docs.live.net\/c7a08ae2600d197a\/PrivateNotes\/RadioTFS\/RadioTFS\/Community%20Roundup.one\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"106\" title=\"clip_image001[4]\" style=\"border: 0px currentcolor\" alt=\"clip_image001[4]\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/05\/clip_image00145.png\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/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>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, listed in no specific order: TOP STORIES Chip Off The Ol\u2019 Blockchain \u2013 Part 3: How to Setup a CI\/CD Pipeline with VSTS and TruffleBlaize Stewart outlines how to use VSTS to create a simple [&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-44055","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, listed in no specific order: TOP STORIES Chip Off The Ol\u2019 Blockchain \u2013 Part 3: How to Setup a CI\/CD Pipeline with VSTS and TruffleBlaize Stewart outlines how to use VSTS to create a simple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}