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Agile UX: Incorporating User Experience into Agile Processes

April 16, 2018 Apr 16, 2018 04/16/18
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Premier Developer Consultant Daisy Chaussee writes how to integrate user experience and design into agile processes. In combining Agile and UX, teams can attain greater collaboration, continuous improvement, and efficiency in development. The goal of this blog post is to provide guidance on how to integrate User Experience into Agile ...

Integrating Selenium tests in a release pipeline

April 13, 2018 Apr 13, 2018 04/13/18
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Senior Application Development Manager Marcelo Silva recently posted this article demonstrating how to implement UI test automation using VSTS and Selenium.Today, I'd like to show you a proof-of-concept I created for one of my customers where we implement User Interface (UI) test automation into a Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI...

Audit SQL Server stop, start, restart

March 27, 2018 Mar 27, 2018 03/27/18
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In this article, Application Development Manager Steve Keeler outlines an approach for determining the domain identity of a user who has initiated a stop, start, or restart request on SQL Server services. Although SQL Server contains server and database auditing functionality as part of the product, this cannot be used to determine the ...

End-to-end from Code Project, to VSTS CI/CD, to Azure

March 20, 2018 Mar 20, 2018 03/20/18
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In this post, Premier Developer Consultant Crystal Tenn shares how to set up and deploy a full stack application using Azure App Services. The proof of concept will help you better understand the interactions between an Azure Web App, Azure API App, and Azure SQL Server resource with a step-by-step tutorial.  In addition, we will show you...

Something is Odd About the Monolithic Application Discussion

March 16, 2018 Mar 16, 2018 03/16/18
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In this post, App Dev Manager Mark Eisenberg takes a look back at the origin of monolithic applications and sets up a discussion about what needs to change.A few weeks ago I recorded a podcast which was a free-flowing discussion about monolithic applications, the problems therewith and why they are still with us some 50+ years after their ...

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Developers

March 12, 2018 Mar 12, 2018 03/12/18
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If you are looking to maximize your productivity and impact as a modern developer, consider these seven habits shared by App Dev Manager Ketuan Baldwin. Reaching your full potential as a developer requires you to be highly effective. In this blog, I will discuss some principles that are important for modern developers to be successful. The ...

Notes from the Field: Migrating to Visual Studio Team Services

March 5, 2018 Mar 5, 2018 03/5/18
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Premier Developer consultant Brian Blackman shares two major insights regarding migrating on-premises databases to the cloud. This post does not cover all the details of migration to Visual Studio Team Services. You can find that information at Migrate to Visual Studio Team Services. And your options for migration can be found at Migration ...

Using VSTS Service Hooks in Release Management to add resource cleanup resilience

February 24, 2018 Feb 24, 2018 02/24/18
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In this post, Principal Consultant/App Dev Manager Lou Sawyer describes how to integrate webhooks and runbooks to cleanup failed Azure deployments. Release Management capabilities in Visual Studio Team Service are fantastic and offers extensibility points to make everyone's life easier. In this post, we'll be discussing the Service ...

Enabling ALM Tooling in the Cloud for PubSec Customers

February 17, 2018 Feb 17, 2018 02/17/18
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In this post, Senior App Dev Manager Doug Owens explores cloud hosted TFS options for government organizations.In sharing notes with peers within Microsoft, it becomes clear that many of our PubSec customers can benefit from improved Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and DevOps practices. The world-class features, low barriers to entry, ...

TFS 2017 – Sometimes we must look back before we can move forward! – Part 1

December 8, 2017 Dec 8, 2017 12/8/17
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This is the first of a series of posts is provided by Senior Application Development Manager (ADM), Chuck Goodspeed, focusing on the challenges encountered in migrating/evolving TFS 2005/2008/2010 installations a full decade forward into TFS 2017 and/or VSTS. Experiences and situations encountered at multiple customer installations provide ...