DevOps, Git, and Agile updates from the team building Azure DevOps
July 22, 2014Jul 22, 201407/22/14With Microsoft Release Management 2013 Update 3 RC, you can now use Windows PowerShell or Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) for deploying and managing configuration data.
Windows PowerShell (PS)
Refer to Scripting with Windows PowerShell (PS) for more details.
July 8, 2014Jul 8, 201407/8/14In our latest deployment to Visual Studio Online on July 1, we have removed the Stack Rank (Agile / CMMI) or Backlog Priority (Scrum) field from the work item form. The backlog uses that field to order the items and updates the field to arbitrary values,
July 8, 2014Jul 8, 201407/8/14Check for performance issues on your web site before they impact your customers. Perhaps you expect an increased user load from a marketing campaign. Use cloud-based load testing with Visual Studio Online to test if your application can handle all the new users.
July 8, 2014Jul 8, 201407/8/14
Pre-requisites for triggering Chef deployments using RM:
Target node must already be bootstrapped and registered with Chef server
Relevant cookbooks uploaded to Chef Server. Cookbook should have an attribute which maps to build drop location.
Recipes assigned to Node.
Deployment using Chef:
As a first step you need to setup Release Management Server as Chef Workstation.
July 7, 2014Jul 7, 201407/7/14Goal of a load testing activity is to identify and fix performance bottlenecks. Visual Studio Online integrates Cloud Load Testing with Application Insights to give deep insights into performance and diagnostics data of your application which dramatically decreases the discovery and resolution of any issues discovered later.
July 7, 2014Jul 7, 201407/7/14With Microsoft Release Management 2013 Update 3 RC, you can now use Windows PowerShell or Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) for deploying and managing configuration data. We now support deploying to On-premise environment (Standard) and Azure environments without having to setup Microsoft Deployment Agent.
July 6, 2014Jul 6, 201407/6/14With Microsoft Release Management 2013 Update 3 RC, you can now use Windows PowerShell or Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) for deploying and managing configuration data. We now support deploying to On-premise environment (Standard) and Azure environments without having to setup Microsoft Deployment Agent.
July 6, 2014Jul 6, 201407/6/14Introduction
CodeLens is a heads-up display in your Visual Studio Editor where you can find information about your code in-context. See this MSDN article for an introduction to CodeLens – Get history and other info about your code.
In a previous blog post,
July 3, 2014Jul 3, 201407/3/14In Update 2 of Visual Studio 2013, we added the CPU Usage tool into the Performance and Diagnostics hub which allows you to see where the CPU is spending time executing your code. In Update 3 of Visual Studio 2013, we have made a small but important improvement to this tool: the ability to navigate from a function in the call tree to the source code where that function was defined.
July 2, 2014Jul 2, 201407/2/14Today, as part of the Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 Release Candidate, projects enabled for Application Insights will result in an Application Insights resource being provisioned in an Azure subscription (visible in Portal Preview at https://portal.azure.com). Currently the Application Insights Blade shows “Coming soon…” –
