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Azure Premium Storage expanding in more regions
We announced general availability of Azure Premium Storage in April 2015. Since then, a large number of Azure customers have used Premium Storage and experienced the tremendous improvements it brings...
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Cloud Load Test Support in mstest.exe command line and XAML Builds
As part of TFS 2015, we have added two tasks to help users run load test as part of the new Build System. You can read about it here https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/news/tfs2015-vs.aspx#loadtest. We...
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Build Tasks for SonarQube Analysis
As you may be aware, we have been working with SonarSource to integrate SonarQube with MSBuild, Team Foundation Server, and Visual Studio Online. Up to now, you could use the MSBuild.SonarQube.Runner...
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On Disconnecting
Yes, I'm writing a blog post about disconnecting from technology. No, the irony is not lost on me. ;)This "vacation" thing is amazing.— Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) August 25, 2015 Disconnecting can...
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Top Azure News for Visual Studio Developers – August 2015
A lot has happened on the Azure side of the house in the last couple of months. We wanted to give you some of the highlights in case you aren’t already following the Azure blog, focusing especially on...
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How Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 10 work better...
Last month, we launched a brand new browser built for Windows 10, Microsoft Edge. Microsoft Edge has been built from the ground up to correctly, quickly, and reliably render web pages, and improve...
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Sprint planning improvements and SonarQube analysis build tasks – Aug 26
Note: The improvements discussed in this post will be rolling out throughout the week. Please follow progress of the deployment at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vsoservice/.Renaming columns in placeYou can...
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New advertising and campaign tracking capabilities for Windows Store apps
Microsoft is releasing two new Dev Center features to simplify and streamline management of ads-in-apps as well as releasing the campaign tracking feature that we announced earlier:pubCenter...
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Visual Studio 2012 Update 5 RTM Released
On August 24th we released Visual Studio 2012 Update 5 RTM. This update is also available for MSDN subscribers.In Team Foundation Server 2015 we introduced a new feature Team Project Rename. This...
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Creating your own browser with HTML and JavaScript
Over the past several months, we have made numerous improvements to the Microsoft Edge rendering engine (Microsoft EdgeHTML), focusing on interoperability with modern browsers and compliance with new...
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Visual Studio Online Update – Aug 26th
This week we are rolling out our sprint 87 work. Nothing earth shattering this sprint but some nice project management improvements. Also we’ve added first class SonarQube support now with custom...
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TFS 2015 Power Tools are available
Today we released the TFS 2015 Power Tools that accompany VS 2015 and TFS 2015. The landing page that link points to includes lots of info about compatibility, changes, etc.Sorry it took a bit longer...
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TFS 2015 Installation guidance
At least once or twice a week, I’m getting questions about where the TFS 2015 installation guidance is. We’re not doing well with search engines on that apparently. We’re going to see if we can do...
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VS 2012 Update 5 has been released
This week we released the final build of VS 2012 Update 5. You can get it on the Visual Studio downloads page. There are only a few changes in it. You can find them in the VS 2012 Update 5 KB...
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Features timeline refresh
With the TFS 2015 release behind us and a lot of planning for our next phase of work completed, it’s time to do a major refresh of our Visual Studio Online Features Timeline. If you aren’t familiar...
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Release Management vNext Plans
August 2015We have been talking about the vNext version of Release Management Service in Visual Studio Online for the past few months. This service is currently in private preview and is expected to be...
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Lab Management Evolution
[August 2015]Lab Management was introduced in TFS 2010 to help development teams easily deploy and test their applications on virtual machines in their routine ALM workflows. However, you have not seen...
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Visual Studio Online Extensibility and Marketplace
Engineering teams use a variety of tools and services for every aspect of their engineering process. Today, it is very difficult for a single vendor to satisfy all of the custom needs and provide best...
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Announcing Package Management support for VSO/TFS
Today, I’m happy to announce the new package management service that is coming to Visual Studio Online and Team Foundation Server. The package management service will enable you to manage, store,...
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Agile Project Management Futures (August 2015)
This post details some of the agile project management improvements coming to Visual Studio Online and Team Foundation Server in the next few quarters. New Work Item FormI'll start with the core work...
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