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MSTest V2 is open source

April 7, 2017 Apr 7, 2017 04/7/17

Vahe Minasyan

As promised, we announced the open sourcing of MSTest Test Framework “MSTest V2”. The community now has a fully supported, open source, cross-platform implementation of the MSTest V2 portfolio with which to write tests targeting .NET Framework, .NET Core and ASP.NET Core on Windows, Linux, and Mac...

Securing Web Requests with TLS 1.2

April 5, 2017 Apr 5, 2017 04/5/17

Vahe Minasyan

In my years of development, one thing I’ve learned for certain is that securing your network requests is an essential part of any mobile application. A few weeks ago one of my own applications stopped working due to a change to a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate on meetup.com’s authentication server, which made me realize the ...

Integrating Smoke Tests into your Continuous Delivery Pipeline

April 5, 2017 Apr 5, 2017 04/5/17

Vahe Minasyan

Having a Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) pipeline in Visual Studio Team Services enables us to build and release our software quickly and easily.  Because of the high volume of builds and releases that can occur, there is a chance that some of the releases will fail.  Finding these failures early is vital.  Using ...

Continuous Delivery Tools Adds GitHub Support and My Build Notifications

April 5, 2017 Apr 5, 2017 04/5/17

Vahe Minasyan

The Continuous Delivery Tools for Visual Studio shipped last month as a Microsoft DevLabs extension to experiment with some of the latest ideas for setting up and working with a DevOps pipeline. As with any experiment the goal is to learn and test our hypotheses. The enthusiasm and feedback has validated just how much opportunity there is to ...