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Best practices for private config data and connection strings in...
A reader emailed asking how to avoid accidentally checking in passwords and other sensitive data into GitHub or source control in general. I think it's fair to say that we've all done this once or...
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Bing Predicts: New England to repeat as pro football champions
Bing Predicts provided the weekly winners of professional football games this past season, and in January we do likewise for the playoffs. With a 9-7 final week, Bing Predicts ends the regular season...
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Visual Studio Team Services announces the newest release of our Eclipse...
We are pleased to announce the availability of Team Explorer Everywhere14.0.2, our Visual Studio Team Services and Team Foundation Server plug-in for Eclipse. Download locations:The command line...
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Now Available: Single age rating system to simplify app submissions
To aid customers in determining which apps or game are appropriate to download, Dev Center requires you to select an age rating during the submission process and include specific requirements (e.g....
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Task runners in Visual Studio 2015
There are various kinds of tasks typically used by web developers as part of their workflow. Everything from bundling and minifying JavaScript files, to compiling LESS files into CSS and even running...
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Bing Predicts Golden Globe Winners
Award season kicks into high gear Sunday, January 10, when the Golden Globes, hosted by Ricky Gervais, honors the best films and American television of 2015. In addition to providing an...
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Receive an error when resolving a bug created by your build?
When you create a new build definition, you have the option to create a bug when the build failed. If you activate this option, it is possible that you will receive the following error message when...
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Team Explorer Everywhere 14.0.2 released
We recently released a small update to Team Explorer Everywhere – a cross platform command line and Eclipse plug-in for working Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio Team Services.You can download...
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When did we stop caring about memory management?
This post is neither a rant nor a complaint, but rather, an observation. There's some amazing work happening over in the C#-based Kestrel web server. This is an little open source webserver that...
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VSTS Release Management plans for 2016 H1
After opening the VSTS Release Management service for public preview at Connect(), we are now gearing up for rolling out the next set of features into the service. Here are a subset of improvements and...
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Announcing Reporting Capabilities for Visual Studio Team Services
Reporting has always been a cornerstone of TFS. By bringing together diverse data about your team’s software process, you are able to see relationships and gain insights on your process, and...
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SonarQube Integration Update and 2016H1 Plans
Back in September Stuart explained our SonarQube Integration plans with Visual Studio, TFS and Visual Studio Team Services. In December he updated the blog post with what we had done.With the Visual...
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How we plan to enable creating Multiple Collections per Account
As the use of Visual Studio Team Services continues to grow and larger teams migrate more of their projects to the cloud we have been working to better support their scenarios. Today, I want to share...
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Git Experience Futures (January 2016)
Some exciting new features are coming to the Git experience over the next few months. In August, I wrote about upcoming features and most of them are available now, but a few have taken longer than we...
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VSTS New work item form futures (January 2016)
About two months ago, the new work item form made its debut in Visual Studio Team Services – checkout my blog post with all the details on this release if you haven’t seen it yet. This new work item...
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Java Experience Futures (January 2016)
Over the next several months, our Visual Studio Team Foundation (VSTS) Java teams are focusing on new essential developer workflows for our IntelliJ plugin and a simplification of our authentication...
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Unit Testing Apache Cordova Apps with Visual Studio, Part 1
Great apps—like great artists, actors, and athletes—are great performers. Human beings validate and continually improve their performances through extensive training, practice, rehearsals, and...
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Dashboards Futures (January 2016)
In October, we released the new dashboards feature in VS Team Services and TFS 2015 Update 1. Dashboards are a customizable canvas that replaces your existing Team Overview page and enable you to...
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VSTS Process Customization futures (January 2016)
Last month, we released our first major milestone for process customization - the ability to add a field and modify layout, checkout my blog post on the topic if you haven't seen it yet. As I shared...
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Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio Team Services roadmap update
Today we are making a major update to our “Features Timeline” for TFS and VSTS. To remind you, the Features Timeline provides an indication of some of the bigger, higher demand things we are working...
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