DevOps, Git, and Agile updates from the team building Azure DevOps
June 28, 2013Jun 28, 201306/28/13Hello, I am Patrick Nelson, a developer on the Visual Studio Debugger Team.
Authoring apps that are using more than one language is not uncommon these days. For example, some developers prefer one language for the UI layer but use another language (or reuse components in another language) for their business logic.
June 27, 2013Jun 27, 201306/27/13You asked, and we have listened. Seeing return values for functions is something that many .NET developers wanted, and voted heavily for on the Visual Studio uservoice site. This feature exists already for C++ code and the good news is that with the latest version of Visual Studio,
June 26, 2013Jun 26, 201306/26/13I’m here today (and trying real hard to not be jealous of those of you reading this from beautiful San Francisco) to share some new information about version control and Team Foundation Build (TFBuild) in Visual Studio 2013 Preview.
Version control
Git built in to Visual Studio and TFS
Use branches to switch contexts and isolate risk
Resolve conflicts
Work around a few known issues
More of what’s new
Team Foundation Build
Build Windows 8.1 Preview Store apps
Build more simply.
June 26, 2013Jun 26, 201306/26/13As announced with Visual Studio 2013 launch, cloud based load testing with Visual studio Online is in Commercial Preview. This is open to all Visual Studio Online users. You can read more about it here
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Getting Started links
Download Visual Studio Ultimate 2013 Preview
Getting started guide for load testing using Team Foundation Service
Troubleshooting guide for FAQs and known issues
Team Foundation Service forum for questions and support
Detailed demo and presentation (link to Tech-Ed session recording)
June 26, 2013Jun 26, 201306/26/13In the last few months since Windows 8 RTM’ed, we have seen the number of apps on the Windows Store grow significantly. There are several different aspects to shipping a great app to the Store. One of these is testing your app to ensure that the bugs are flushed out and you have automated tests in place to ensure that you can make regression free enhancements to your app.
June 20, 2013Jun 20, 201306/20/13Update: Note this post has been updated for Visual Studio 2013 RTM and is the first of a two-part series. In the screenshots and examples Just My Code and Collapse Small Objects are disabled as covered in part 2. It is recommended that you read this post before reading part 2.
June 17, 2013Jun 17, 201306/17/13Had a question come up today on one of the distribution lists:
Why does the Data and Diagnostics adapter reference Visual Studio 2010 even in Visual Studio 2013?
Turns out this dialogue is trying to convey that this is the old way or the “Visual Studio 2010” way of static code coverage where users need to configure individual assemblies for collection.
June 11, 2013Jun 11, 201306/11/13The Unit Testing series by one of the ALM MVPs Terje Sandstrom has been some of the highest read posts on the ALM blog…In this post he shows how to easily provide unit Test Adapters from NuGet.
Thanks for the Great Post Terje!
June 5, 2013Jun 5, 201306/5/13As part of the MTM enhancements in the Visual Studio Update 2, we introduced a feature to customize the test result analysis fields like ‘Resolution’ and ‘Failure type’. Different projects may have different reporting needs and this feature lets you do just that.
June 4, 2013Jun 4, 201306/4/13As Brian said we have made a ton of improvements for Testers with the Team Foundation Service released during TechEd. In looking at the last two sprints in TFS I see over 14 new features!
Add/rename/delete new parameters and values to a test case
Run a suite using a single gesture
Drag and drop between suites and test cases
Manage attachments to test steps in the test case creation/editing dialog
Insert existing Shared Steps during Test case authoring
Create test plans
Create new test suite for selected test plan
Add Requirement based suites to the selected test plan
