December 1, 2017
The round-up is back for November! I’m sorry for not posting in October. My wife and I welcomed our second child, a girl, into the world. I was at home spending time with them because they grow up so fast 🙂 But now I’m back, and some really exciting extensions went live in the Marketplace... Read More
November 20, 2017
From the day Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) first went live, customers wanted a path to migrate their existing on-premises Team Foundation Server (TFS) data. For a long time, only low-fidelity paths existed – migrating a subset of resources at their “tip” values, using tools to preserve a bit more history, and so forth. Just... Read More
November 15, 2017
Today we are announcing a new cross-platform command line interface for Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) and Team Foundation Server (TFS). This new CLI, currently in preview, lets you manage and work with pull requests, work items, builds, and more. Many more commands and capabilities will be added over time, hopefully with help from the... Read More
September 29, 2017
This month I have two extensions that I am excited about. Chef, who earlier this year released their core set of CI/CD tasks for working with Chef, is adding a new extension that connects VSTS with their app & container automation system, Habitat. Agile Extensions is also making an early splash in the Marketplace with... Read More
September 20, 2017
The Release Candidate (RC) of Team Foundation Server 2017 Update 3 is now available. It is a go-live release and fully supported for production use. This release includes bug fixes for TFS 2017 since Update 2, many of which resulted from technical support case resolutions and Developer Community problem reports. You’ll see fixes across the... 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
August 31, 2017
Since the creation of the Marketplace, we have seen strong demand for tools to work with Amazon Web Services. I am so thrilled that this month the search for those tools comes to an end. In addition to Amazon releasing their AWS Tools, our partners at NDepend have recently lowered the prices on their static... Read More
August 31, 2017
As of TFS 2017.2, the old work item form <Layout> tag has been deprecated and is no longer supported in TFS 2018. If you are upgrading your server and have a collection where the new work item form has not been enabled you will encounter the following severe warning during readiness checks: [VS403364]: This release... Read More
August 21, 2017
(Updated September 12, 2017) We have now published a full set of documentation that covers SharePoint integration for both TFS 2017 (and earlier versions) and TFS 2018. Also, the following solutions are no longer in private preview: Upgrade from SharePoint 2013 with TFS integration to SharePoint 2016 Disable SharePoint integration after TFS 2018 upgrade ——–... Read More
July 31, 2017
Our community of publishers continues to grow and the contributions they’re making are great. This month I’ve got an extension for chaining build definitions together, and another that was written because people were searching for it in the Marketplace. SpecFlow+LivingDoc See it in the Marketplace here:Â https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=techtalk.techtalk-specflow-plus Living documentation is the term used to describe system... Read More