July 6, 2017
Each project in Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) now supports its own Wiki. Now you can conveniently write pages that help your team members and other users understand, use, and contribute to your project. Create my first wiki page When you create your first Wiki, we will provision a git repository that will store all your... Read More
July 3, 2017
Deploy Visual Studio Test Agent (DTA) task in TFS/VSTS, is used for setting up Test Agent (TA) on multiple machines to run functional tests. Image below describes the functionality of the task and present reboot cases: DTA Task & need of Auto-logon To run UI tests that interact with desktop, test machine must have a... Read More
June 30, 2017
Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics. TOP STORIES RadioTFS #141 – “There is no P in Thomson” – RadioTFSIn this episode Martin, Angela, Josh and Greg finally have Ed Thomson on the show and chat latest news, VSTS migration and lots... Read More
June 30, 2017
This month I’ve got two extensions to enhance how you plan. Whether you’re sharing a product roadmap with partners, or planning a sprint for your engineering team, the Marketplace continues to have you covered. ProductPlan I am a big fan of communicating the big picture to my team and partners. It helps align everyone to... Read More
June 29, 2017
Visual Studio Marketplace is the one stop shop where developers, teams or organizations, can discover and acquire as well as offer and monetize extensions for the Visual Studio family of products i.e. Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS), Team Foundation Server (TFS), Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code. This ecosystem is powered by a community of... Read More
June 23, 2017
Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics. TOP STORIES DevOps: Infrastructure As Code (IaC) with Azure : 2nd training series – Tarun AroraDelighted to announce that my free training course on DevOps: Infrastructure As Code with Azure has just released on the... Read More
June 16, 2017
Greg Duncan, Martin Woodward and I (Willy) were chatting recently about all the great news posts that Greg pulls together for the Radio TFS podcast and what a shame it was that so many of them ended up on the cutting room floor. So instead we thought that instead it would be good to do... Read More
June 14, 2017
Git repositories now show tags that allow you to mark important points in your repo’s history. Now you can easily bookmark a specific commit in your git repository to compare to other commits in the future. In this post, I will talk about how you can easily manage following git tag related tasks in VSTS :... Read More
June 13, 2017
At its core, TIA collects, and subsequently consults, a map of the dynamic dependencies of each test method as it is executing. As the test method is executing it will cover various methods – the source file in which those methods reside are the dynamic dependencies that get tracked. So, the mapping ends up like the following:... Read More
June 9, 2017
In this blog post I will show you how to setup continuous delivery of a dockerized app by using Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) to a Kubernetes cluster running in ACS. Azure Container Service (ACS) allows to deploy and manage containers using Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, Mesosphere DC/OS orchestrators. You can now deploy these three orchestrators on... Read More
