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Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2018.08.24

I don’t know about y’all, but it’s been a long week here on the VSTS team. I’m beat! And when I’m tired, it gets hard to focus on those little letters on my LCD. So this week I’m linking you to a bunch of great content that you don’t have to read...

Azure.Source – Volume 46

Now in preview Reduce your exposure to brute force attacks from the virtual machine blade - One way to reduce exposure to an attack is to limit the amount of time that a port on your virtual machine is open. Ports only need to be open for a limited amount of time for you to perform management or maintenance tasks. Just-In-Time VM Access helps ...

Azure Cloud Shell editor | Azure Friday [Video]

Justin Luk joins Scott Hanselman to show the new Azure Cloud Shell editor. Since its launch, Cloud Shell included a variety of editors (vi, emacs, and nano) for editing files. In collaboration with the Visual Studio Code team and their open-source Monaco project, the same web standards-based editor that powers Visual Studio Code is now ...

A Microsoft DevSecOps Static Application Security Testing (SAST) Exercise

Static Application Security Testing (SAST) is a critical DevSecOps practice. As engineering organizations accelerate continuous delivery to impressive levels, it’s important to ensure that continuous security validation keeps up. To do so most effectively requires a multi-dimensional application of static analysis tools. The more ...

Visual Studio for Mac version 7.6

Today we are announcing the release of Visual Studio for Mac version 7.6. Our focus with this release has been to improve product reliability in various areas, with a special focus on the code editing experience. We have also made several fixes that improve IDE performance. Finally, we’ve extended our support for Azure functions with the ...

Unit Testing Tools in Visual Studio 2017 [Video]

In this video, Robert is joined by Kendra Havens, who shows us some of the excellent unit test tooling in Visual Studio 2017, including testing performance improvements [03:57], Hierarchy View in the Test Explorer [05:13], generating unit tests [09:35], Intellitest [10:50], code coverage [16:10] and Live Unit Testing [19:10...

.NET Core August 2018 Update

Today, we are releasing the .NET Core August 2018 Update. This update includes .NET Core 2.1.3 and .NET Core SDK 2.1.401...

What’s new in VSTS Sprint 138 Update

The Sprint 138 Update of Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) has rolled out to all organizations. In this update, test results for releases have been enhanced to group together test attempts and summarize better. Watch the following video to learn about this and a few of the other new features...

Moving from Hosted XML Process to Inherited Process in VSTS – Generally Available

Last month we announced a private preview that allows you to move projects that use a Hosted XML process to an Inherited process. We received a fare share of feedback, watched the telemetry, and made some fixes. This week we announced that the feature is now generally available! If you are using Hosted XML, and you are ready to move to the ...