Yesterday, Microsoft held their Connect(); event. They had some major announcements around the product formerly known as Visual Studio Online, Azure, and more. This is a list of some of the things that were covered: Visual Studio Team Services is born! For those of you that have been using the cloud version of TFS, you […]
On Monday, September 21st, I will be at the Microsoft office in Tampa giving a talk on Visual Studio Online: http://www.meetup.com/Tampa-Windows-App-Developers/events/224987308/ Visual Studio Online provides your teams with a single, unified, and flexible collaboration environment with a full range of Application Lifecycle Management capabilities. Whether your team is completely on the Microsoft stack or you […]
As you may know by now, Visual Studio Online and TFS 2015 RC introduced a new build system. As you start to use the new build system, you may need to run xUnit tests as part of your build. Out of the box, the new build system includes a Visual Studio Test task. This task […]
I am very excited to announce my 6th Pluralsight course: TFS Build 2015: First Look. Late last year, Microsoft announced that they were working on a new build system to support TFS. Among many other things, the build system would have a web-based editor (no more XAML), reduce the infrastructure footprint to deploy your build […]
This is part 4 of a video series that will help you learn how to get started and use Application Lifecycle Management tools. The videos are meant to be short and to the point to quickly show you how to perform specific tasks. Be sure to check back often for more videos! Last time, I […]
This is part 3 of a video series that will help you learn how to get started and use Application Lifecycle Management tools. The videos are meant to be short and to the point to quickly show you how to perform specific tasks. Be sure to check back often for more videos! Last time, I […]
This is part 2 of a video series that will help you learn how to get started and use various Application Lifecycle Management tools. The videos are meant to be short and to the point to quickly show you how to perform specific tasks. Be sure to check back often for more videos! Last time, […]
This weekend I’m heading down to South Florida Code Camp to cover some of my favorite topics. This is a great event that just keeps getting bigger and better every year and I really enjoy going down there. My talks are: 8:30 am – Git with the Program: Succeeding with Version Control Git is a […]
When you first connect to a Git Repository in Visual Studio, you are going to be defaulted to cloning the Master remote branch. But what if you want to work on a different branch? You’ll need to clone that branch before you start working on it. If you look at the branches tab in Team […]
Among one of the many exciting changes released by Microsoft last week was TFS 2013 Update 4. This update includes new lightweight charts that you can access from the Test hub of the TFS Web Portal. The reports provide you with snapshot and trend charts for test cases and test results. Just like other […]