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December 2014 - Azure DevOps Blog

IntelliTrace Standalone Collector and Application Pools running under Active Directory accounts

December 22, 2014 Dec 22, 2014 12/22/14
Angelos Petropoulos
You will often configure an ASP.NET web site to run as an Active Directory (AD) user so that the site can access that user’s network resources (e.g. a file share). This is accomplished by changing the identity of the IIS Application Pool the web site runs under.If you try to use the IntelliTrace Standalone Collector with such an ...

Custom TraceSource and debugging using IntelliTrace

December 16, 2014 Dec 16, 2014 12/16/14
Angelos Petropoulos
IntelliTrace in Visual Studio Enterprise comes with support for tracing out of the box. All you have to do is make sure the appropriate IntelliTrace events are enabled in VS settings and IntelliTrace will capture trace statements as events. When you are not using the default Debug.Trace methods and are instead using a custom TraceSource, ...

Application Insights – Metric Explorer (ME) – Part 2

December 15, 2014 Dec 15, 2014 12/15/14
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Segmentation is one of my favorite features in Metrics Explorer in Application Insights. It helps you slice and dice the telemetry about what users are doing with your application, as well as helps you understand performance metrics. Segmentation Let me show you how easy it is to answer some basic questions by using segmentation. This is for...

Application Insights: Exception Telemetry

December 12, 2014 Dec 12, 2014 12/12/14
Soubhagya Dash (MSFT)
Application Insights lets you monitor your live application for its availability, performance and usage. Exception telemetry is of course, a central piece of this. In this blog, we’ll look at the compelling diagnostics experience enabled by capturing exceptions along with request telemetry. I’ll also illustrate how you can configure your ...

New whitepapers for migration and security … with more to come

December 11, 2014 Dec 11, 2014 12/11/14
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We are pleased to announce two new whitepapers have landed, sharing real-world experience and research feedback. Extracting effective permissions from TFS whitepaper and sample Practical guidance and sample code based on extensive research to address two of the commonly heard requests on Team Foundation Server security:   (1) ...

Export telemetry from Application Insights

December 11, 2014 Dec 11, 2014 12/11/14
Anton Fritz [MSFT]
At last! Everyone's been asking for this, so we're very pleased to announce it. You can set up a continuous export of your telemetry from the Application Insights portal in JSON format. We put the data into blob storage in your Microsoft Azure account. From there, you can pick it up and write whatever code you need to process it. For most ...

Smart Unit Tests – a mental model

December 11, 2014 Dec 11, 2014 12/11/14
Pratap Lakshman
[Editor’s note: "Smart Unit Tests" has been renamed to “IntelliTest” with effect from Visual Studio 2015 Release Candidate (RC).] Our previous post introduced Smart Unit Tests. Please read that first if you have not already done so. Now let us continue. How is “Smart Unit Tests” able to generate a compact test suite with high ...

CodeLens in Visual Studio Online is now in Public Preview

December 11, 2014 Dec 11, 2014 12/11/14
Mathew Aniyan MSFT
Update: Added a Troubleshooting section. Introduction CodeLens is a heads-up display in your Visual Studio Editor where you can find information about your code in-context.   We had enabled CodeLens in Visual Studio Online for select customers as a Limited CTP in Nov 2014. We have evaluated the performance & scale characteristics ...

Updated Application Insights Status Monitor to support .12 (and later) Application Insights SDK

December 10, 2014 Dec 10, 2014 12/10/14
VladJ
The latest release of the Application Insights Status Monitor tool provides an update to the runtime instrumentation agent, which is a component of Application Insights that automatically discovers your code dependencies like SQL databases, other HTTP endpoints and Azure storage accounts.  This new runtime instrumentation agent requires your ...

Getting started with Cloud-based Load Test REST APIs

December 4, 2014 Dec 4, 2014 12/4/14
Charles Sterling
REST API’s are pretty cool, enabling you to do things like write your own custom reports, write your own interfaces and of course integrating load tests into your build.  Looking at the sample referenced with our REST API documentation; at 400 lines to demonstrate 4 API’s I must admit I found it pretty daunting so I thought I would see ...