DevOps, Git, and Agile updates from the team building Azure DevOps
March 31, 2017Mar 31, 201703/31/17February didn’t hold the title of best month on record long – it’s already passed that title to March! A huge thanks to our publishers and customers who continue to grow the ecosystem of extensions around Team Services. This month I’ve got extensions in our Agile and Work Item space that are pretty new and really great.
March 28, 2017Mar 28, 201703/28/17The Microsoft System Center Management Pack for Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2017 (what a name!) has been available for about a month now. One important change to note in this version of the management pack is that it no longer supports monitoring of build resources.
March 26, 2017Mar 26, 201703/26/17Visual Studio Test (VSTest) and the Run Functional Test (RFT) tasks are used widely for continuous testing with Team Build and Release Management. As we thought about how test execution in the pipeline should evolve the guiding principles were to ensure that test execution in the pipeline is fast and reliable for all types of tests,
March 14, 2017Mar 14, 201703/14/17We’re always working to keep our content as fresh and accurate as possible.
We have some new content that we’d like to highlight and hopefully have you spread the word.
On-boarding content for newcomers
We recently wrote a set of overview topics to help orient visitors new to Team Services and TFS.
March 14, 2017Mar 14, 201703/14/17The VSTS platform offers a security REST endpoint which allows you to add and remove permissions on resources. (To understand the rest of this blog post, you’re going to want to skim those docs first.) Several of the security APIs, as well as TFSSecurity.exe,
March 7, 2017Mar 7, 201703/7/17You have many options when navigating through your code with the debugger in Visual Studio including setting breakpoints, stepping, and using Run to Cursor. In Visual Studio 2017 we have introduced Run to Click, a new way to more easily debug your code –
March 7, 2017Mar 7, 201703/7/17Sometimes when developing an application you can’t simply F5 to start debugging the application. In these cases you can use Attach to Process to debug. Many times if you need to debug this way, you will often need to attach to the same application repeatedly.
March 7, 2017Mar 7, 201703/7/17In the 1.115.0 release of the Visual Studio Team Services plugin for Android Studio and IntelliJ, Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) support is transitioning from preview mode to official release. TFVC support was added in a preview state starting September 2016 and continually has had more functionality added to it with each iteration.
March 7, 2017Mar 7, 201703/7/17Most organizations today consume open source software in their development projects. The reuse of components enables great productivity gains. However, this practice has an unintended consequence: you can reuse security vulnerabilities or violate licenses without realizing the risk. I wrote about this in an article in MSDN Magazine on Rugged DevOps.
March 6, 2017Mar 6, 201703/6/17We’ve added new Git features to Visual Studio 2017 that allow you to do more of your end-to-end workflow without leaving the IDE. You can perform a force push to complete a rebase or push an amended commit, easily view the diff for outgoing commits,
