September 15, 2017
Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics. TOP STORIES Azure Function – Provisioning and configuring our Azure Function infrastructure – Mikael KriefIn our previous article we began our series of blog posts on using Azure Function with Visual Studio 2017. We continue... Read More
September 13, 2017
Visual Studio Marketplace is moving its markdown parser to markdown-it which is based on the CommonMark specification. If you are a Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) extension publisher, this would impact formatting of your extension markdown content and thus its presentation to marketplace users. Impacted extension content is: Extension details page (overview.md) License Pricing Privacy Change... Read More
September 9, 2017
Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics. TOP STORIES Azure Functions – Prepare for continuous delivery – Mikael KriefLet’s start with the development, debugging, and testing of our Azure Functions. Hierarchical Testing – What are you Testing? and Why? – David CorbinIn... Read More
September 5, 2017
Customers interested in ensuring the highest level of protection for their data stored in Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) often ask about our ability to encrypt their data at rest. To meet these organizational security and compliance requirements, our goal is to fully encrypt all customer data in VSTS. Toward that end, over the past... Read More
September 5, 2017
It has been exactly 2 months since Wiki went live on VSTS. Wiki is also available in TFS 2018 RC1 now. We have received tons of great feedback and we also learnt a lot from usage patterns. I wanted to talk about some of our learnings and the improvements in Wiki.
September 4, 2017
When you are configuring continuous deployment pipelines for your team, it becomes essential to keep the team members informed about the progress of releases and the related action items. We had started preview of the release notifications feature that integrates the configuration of release related notifications with the default notification settings experience in Visual Studio... Read More
September 4, 2017
As you are already aware, we announced the plan for deprecating XAML builds sometime back. TFS 2018 RC1 is now available and with that XAML builds are no longer supported. Consequently, Lab Management and automated testing capabilities in Microsoft Test Manager (MTM) are no longer supported starting from TFS 2018 RC1. In TFS 2015, we... Read More
September 1, 2017
Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics. TOP STORIES SpecFlow VSTS Build pipeline with SpecRunner for BDD Style Automated Gherkin Functional Tests – Tarun AroraI’ll show you how to create an automated build pipeline for SpecFlow with VSTS using SpecRunner to execute... Read More
September 1, 2017
MSTest V2 has crossed 1 Million downloads. Congratulations! Hats off to the community! MSTest V2 is seeing robust usage. We ourselves use it heavily. If you are still using an earlier version of the MSTest framework, we encourage you to upgrade. We have looked at the uptake of MSTest V2 from the perspective of two... Read More
September 1, 2017
Forks – the ability to create a server-side copy of a Git repository – is rolling out across Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) and available in TFS 2018 RC1 as a public preview. In VSTS, you won’t have to do anything to turn it on, it’ll be available by default. If it’s not on for... Read More