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New navigation for Team Services
In my blog post announcing TFS 15 RC1, I mentioned that we are working on a new navigation UI. In a somewhat unusual turn of events, it showed up in an on premises preview before it showed up in the...
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Copy Files Over SSH during Continuous Integration and Deployment
In July we released a SSH task to run commands or scripts on a remote machine to make it easier to configure Linux servers as part of your automated build or release definitions. Now we are including...
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Deploying an Azure Ubuntu Linux VM Running Apache Tomcat for use with Visual...
Visual Studio Team Services and Team Foundation Server (TFS) now have at least three mechanisms (i.e. deployment and utility tasks) for deploying to a Linux host or virtual machine (VM). This...
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Deploying an Azure Red Hat Linux VM Running Apache Tomcat for use with Visual...
Visual Studio Team Services and Team Foundation Server (TFS) now has at least three mechanisms (i.e. deployment and utility tasks) for deploying to a Linux host or virtual machine (VM). This...
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Announcing PowerShell on Linux - PowerShell is Open Source!
I started doing PowerShell almost 14 years ago. Check out this video from 2007 of me learning about PowerShell from Jeffrey Snover! I worked in PowerShell for many years and blogged extensively,...
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Top 10 Questions Asked on Bing this Summer Games
It has been an exciting two weeks at the 2016 Summer Games, packed with competition by thousands of athletes across dozens of sports. Given there’s so much to see, Bing uses its prediction technology...
View ArticleNew .NET Core Build Agent on Hosted Pool – Some builds may require reaction
Over the course of this year we have been building a new vsts agent on the .NET Core platform. The new agent not only includes a number of new features but it also gives complete feature parity across...
View ArticlePowerShell is now open-source, and cross-platform
The PowerShell team made a few announcements today: it’s going open-source, and it’s now available on Windows, Mac, and Linux. This is excellent news in itself, but the .NET team wanted to take the...
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Inside Visual Studio Team Services: Summer Interns and Package Management
Each month, we bring you the insiders view into Visual Studio Team Services– how the product is developed, how we dogfood it and use it every day, who are the people behind it and tips and tricks on...
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Visual Studio “15” Preview 4
Today we released Visual Studio “15” Preview 4, introducing many new improvements and bug fixes that bring us one stage closer to the product’s completion.The highlight of this release is that nearly...
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The Lightweight Visual Studio “15” Installer
As many of you may have already seen, we have introduced a streamlined Visual Studio Installer for Visual Studio “15” to give you more control of what you install. What began as the separation of the...
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Work items now open in the web from Visual Studio ’15’
If you use work item tracking with Visual Studio ’15’, you may have noticed that work items now open in a browser window. This change to how you interact with work items allows us to provide you with a...
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Testing private/intranet applications using Cloud-based load testing
Cloud-based Load Testing Service can be used for performance and scale testing of an application by generating load from Azure. This type of load generation can only hit/generate load on an...
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Announcing the “App Dev on Xbox” live event
Windows 10 Anniversary Update was released earlier this month and became instantly available to all existing Windows 10 devices, including PCs, phones, Xbox Ones, IoT boards and more – upwards of 350...
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The week in .NET – 8/23/2016
To read last week’s post, see The week in .NET – 8/16/2016.On .NETLast week, we moved into our new studios with Channel 9, where JB Evain joined me to interview Lucas Meijer from Unity. We had our fair...
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User Lifecycle Management Improvements in Visual Studio Team Services
Today Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) is releasing an update to our service which will bring more of Office 365 and Azure Active Directory (AAD)’s user lifecycle management capabilities to VSTS....
View ArticleRange-v3 on MSVC is Available on GitHub
We are delighted to announce that the Visual C++ Team just published an implementation of range-v3 on the Microsoft GitHub repo.This contribution comes hot on the heels of our recent work to improve...
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Beautiful apps made possible and easy with Windows.UI
If you are into creating sweet UI, then you’re definitely going to want to dig into the new Visual Layer with Windows.UI.Composition. The Windows.UI.Composition namespace allows Universal Windows...
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Psychic Weight - Dealing with the things that press on your mind
I was really stressed out ten years ago. I felt that familar pressure between my eyes and felt like all the things that remained undone were pressing on me. I called it "psychic weight." I have since...
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Becoming more productive with Git: Tower and Team Services
Posted on behalf of guest blogger: Tobias Günther, CEO Fournova—Working with Git in Visual Studio Team Services and Team Foundation Server just became even easier: the popular Git desktop client Tower...
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