Visual Studio Updates are a mechanism we are using to provide ongoing value throughout the year to our Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server customers. These updates will provide features to support the latest software trends in the market, and also...

Kanban customizable columns was made publicly available on the March 4 service update, and will be available in the RC version of VS Update 2. You can read the release notes for an overview of the feature itself. The purpose of this blog post is to talk...

We are pleased to announce that we have shipped two new exciting projects introducing practical guidance on the use of Microsoft Fakes and for Team Foundation Server (TFS) d isaster r ecovery avoidance, planning and step-step recovery walkthroughs for...

If you are developing a Windows Store App using XAML (whether it’s C++, C#, or VB), there is a good chance there will be areas of your app where you would like to improve the performance. To assist with this, we’ve included the Visual Studio CPU profiler...

By: Andy Lewis and Matthew Mitrik Today we're here to help you: Specify how you identify yourself on the changes you commit Specify the default location for Git repositories Use images (from either TFS or Gravatar) to identify authors of...

One of the areas that we have improved in VS2012 updates is dump debugging. In this post, I will explain dump debugging feature specific to the ARM architecture. We want to enable all developers who are building Windows Store applications targeting the...

At various events, including TechEd 2012 , Gregg and I have talked on customizing the Agile Planning Tools. The talk shows you can customize to Agile Planning Tools to fit any process, and to prove that we have created a Process Template that is completely...

First off - sorry that you reached this page and are not able to easily find what you need. When you reach this page, it doesn't necessarily mean that the feature is no longer supported or that content is not available for it. For several releases...

A common pain point for today’s development teams is procuring and testing the plethora of devices modern applications are now running on. To ensure the highest quality for their business-critical mobile apps, development teams require robust mobile testing...

We introduced extended support in Coded UI Test for Cross Browser Testing with VS 2012 Update 2 February CTP (see this , this and this post for details). This post addresses details specific to managing browser profiles when using cross-browser testing...

In Visual Studio 2012 RTM, there was limited support for mixed managed and native debugging of Windows Store apps. This support was greatly enhanced in Update 1 . Setup Enabling mixed mode debugging is simple. All you need to do is select your project...

One of the top asks from people in the field is to have the ability to have a dropdown in which you can select multiple values. Few people know that there is already a solution out on CodePlex, although it has its limitation. But it might be just good...

(2013 Mar 3 – Updating the work around steps. Also, when Update 2 RC is available, you can always install that to fix your problem) For those of you installing the VS Update 2 – CTP3, there is an installation sequence that will put the web access work...

We are pleased to announce that we have released the version of the Windows Store reference application that delivers the ALM Readiness treasure map to your Surface and other Windows 8 devices. Both the paper based map and the Windows Store application...

Some teams like to track bugs as tasks and other teams track them as backlog items, such as user stories or requirements. If you’re using a Scrum project, bugs are already in your backlog. However, if your team project was created using the Agile...

--> Run CI builds in your Git team project --> Does your team use continuous integration (CI)? Are you an early adopter of the new Git capabilities in Visual Studio and Team Foundation Service? If so, you'll be glad to hear that you can define...

Visual Studio Update 2 added a light weight browser based test management to the already set of rich test features in the Visual Studio family.  The goal of these test features are to enable development teams an easy way of viewing and editing test...

Visual Studio Updates are a mechanism we are using to provide ongoing value throughout the year to our Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server customers. These updates will provide features to support the latest software trends in the market, and also...

Hands down one of the best training tools Microsoft has for Application Lifecycle Tools is Brian Keller’s virtual machines.  Today Brian released another of these virtual machines -this one focused on the integration between System Center 2012 Operations...

Create, Connect, and Publish using Visual Studio with Git --> By: Andy Lewis and Matthew Mitrik (MS) In the few days since we announced Visual Studio and Team Foundation Service support for Git , it's been exciting to see so much interest, along...

Following on from our last blog post on IntelliTrace enhancements for SharePoint , in this blog post we’ll talk about how the new analysis section for SharePoint can help you find the source of issues faster. The New Analysis Section IntelliTrace...

Summary The following analysis includes the IT internal offering for TFS and includes trends throughout the second half of 2012 (July – December 2012). Overall, we are continuing to have consistent growth in BGIT servers. The number of users...

Unfortunately we don’t have a level above MVP is for recognizing community contributions; if we did Tarun would clearly have achieved that award too. Thanks for the post Tarun! ************************************   Microsoft has just switched the...

Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 includes support for unit testing managed Windows Store apps and includes unit test library templates for Visual C#, Visual Basic and Visual C++. For more information about these, see Creating and Running Unit Tests for Windows...

A lot of people ask me what was my favorite part of living in Australia for 7 years.  Most assume it was something like the warm water, the amazing red wines, the beautiful beaches or the unspoiled landscape and yes while i miss all those things...