DevOps, Git, and Agile updates from the team building Azure DevOps
May 29, 2015May 29, 201505/29/15Visual Studio Online recently announced a new build system that offers a heterogonous capable platform that can easily build or integrate almost any existing asset and be extended to add new ones.
(For more information about this announcement please see Chris Build session: https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/BRK3726 )
One of the Architects at Octopus (and “fellow” Queenslander) ,
May 29, 2015May 29, 201505/29/15When Brian announced the release of Visual Studio 2015 RC and Team Foundation Server 2015 RC, he blogged about lots of features in these releases including Build.Preview and Release Management which are key for DevOps.
At a high level DevOps is to focus on increasing customer value by reducing cycle times in the development process.
May 28, 2015May 28, 201505/28/15( Editor’s note: Posting this for Clemri who is busy releasing a bunch of cool new DevOps news at the at the Velocity conference -Chuck)
The O’Reilly Velocity conference is one of the leading conferences for DevOps practitioners. This year the event is in California,
May 20, 2015May 20, 201505/20/15When upgrading TFS to a new version, one set of items that are not upgraded are the already deployed reports for existing projects. The existing reports will continue to work but we’ve made a large number of performance enhancements and other minor tweaks,
May 15, 2015May 15, 201505/15/15We are very excited to provide built-in support for the Scale Agile Framework using our existing Scrum, Agile, and CMMI templates.
Some time ago, we published a whitepaper: Scaled Agile Framework: Using TFS to support epics, release trains, and multiple backlogs, which detailed how to use TFS to support SAFe practices.
May 14, 2015May 14, 201505/14/15In this blog post I am going to walk you through how to collect data from a windows service using the IntelliTrace Standalone Collector. For the purpose of this post I will be using a windows service I created called “MyWindowsService”.
May 14, 2015May 14, 201505/14/15If you haven’t done so already, check out the announcement of IntelliTrace in Visual Studio Enterprise 2015 which gives you an overview of IntelliTrace and its UI. Since the release of Visual Studio Enterprise 2015 RC, IntelliTrace supports the ability to attach to running processes.
May 11, 2015May 11, 201505/11/15If you missed Ignite or Build and live in Ottawa then you are in luck!
A lot of that great content can be found at the Ottawa Dev Day May 30th. …While i have included their entire session list below i have to call out my favorite topic Cloud Load Testing will be there!
May 6, 2015May 6, 201505/6/15Updated 2015-07-23: Updated for Visual Studio 2015 RTM
Updated 2015-06-01: Added symptom for ASP.NET MVC apps
PLEASE NOTE: These issues have been resolved with Visual Studio 2015 RTM. These workarounds should no longer be necessary, and implementing them will not resolve other issues. If you are using the RTM version of Visual Studio 2015,
May 6, 2015May 6, 201505/6/15In today’s cloud-connected world, it’s hard to find an app that doesn’t make use of an internet connection in some way or another. Whether you’re collecting app usage telemetry, making calls to a web service, or uploading your users’ cat pictures to Facebook,
