DevOps, Git, and Agile updates from the team building Azure DevOps
July 24, 2013Jul 24, 201307/24/13One of our premier test partners Testhouse (Shivaram Patil and Roshin Jacob) has been working with Hosam Kamel(Microsoft regional technology solution professional and ALM Ranger) for performance testing one of our mutual enterprise customers. The project was focused on using Visual Studio to do a performance and load testing for Seibel application.
July 23, 2013Jul 23, 201307/23/13You want to run some of your business logic during your TFBuild process. Maybe before, or maybe after Team Foundation Build (TFBuild) compiles or tests your code. For example, before you compile, you want to set the version of your assembly files.
July 22, 2013Jul 22, 201307/22/13This issue can occur if the guest OS is Windows 2012 R2 Preview.
Workaround:
Install Agents for the Lab Environment once. It should fix the problem.
Cause:
When the test agent is installed and configured, by default it enables firewall exception for tcp port 6910 in privateand current profiles.
July 22, 2013Jul 22, 201307/22/13This issue can occur when Lab Management is configured with SCVMM 2012 R2 Preview
Workaround :
Repair the Lab Environment once. It should fix the problem.
Cause:
While creating a network isolated environment Lab creates a virtual network using SCVMM.
July 17, 2013Jul 17, 201307/17/13Getting started
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee943321.aspx
Create lab environments
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd380688.aspx
SCVMM managed environments
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee830480.aspx
Network isolation
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh329474.aspx
Troubleshooting guide
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee853230.aspx
Lab manager blog posts archive
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudioalm/
Responses to recent questions
Can environments be shared across team projects?
No, environments cannot be shared across multiple team projects.
July 12, 2013Jul 12, 201307/12/13Update: this blog post has been updated for Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 – enjoy!
If you attended our Build conference or watched some of the videos, you may have seen some of the new profiling tools and our Performance and Diagnostics hub.
July 11, 2013Jul 11, 201307/11/13(Posting for a team mate and friend Pratap Lakshman)
From the perspective of interaction-performance applications need to be “fast” and “fluid” – fast to launch, to navigate between pages, to react to changes in orientation, and fluid in scrolling, in panning and in animations.
July 10, 2013Jul 10, 201307/10/13(Posting for a team mate: Shiv Prashant Sood)
Battery draining applications result in bad customer experience and poor ratings. Optimal battery usage is an important aspect that a developer must consider. This post introduces the Energy Consumption tool, a new tool in the Visual Studio Performance and Diagnostics hub that enables you to optimize your application for energy consumption.
July 10, 2013Jul 10, 201307/10/13
Now that the Preview has been out for a couple of weeks, we’ve started to get lots of questions about acquisition and upgrade. This page provides useful information about the upgrade process for the Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2013 Preview.
July 3, 2013Jul 3, 201307/3/13This post (addressing uservoice feedback on CA) was written by Nat Ayewah, a member of the code analysis team in Windows
Last year’s release of Visual Studio 2012 marked a significant update to the Code Analysis experience in Visual Studio. We made code analysis available in more editions of Visual Studio,
