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March 2017 - Azure DevOps Blog

Team Services Extensions Roundup – March

March 31, 2017 Mar 31, 2017 03/31/17
Joe Bourne
February didn’t hold the title of best month on record long – it’s already passed that title to March! A huge thanks to our publishers and customers who continue to grow the ecosystem of extensions around Team Services. This month I've got extensions in our Agile and Work Item space that are pretty new and really great. SpecMap See ...

Monitoring build resources with the TFS 2017 management pack

March 28, 2017 Mar 28, 2017 03/28/17
Aaron Hallberg
The Microsoft System Center Management Pack for Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2017 (what a name!) has been available for about a month now. One important change to note in this version of the management pack is that it no longer supports monitoring of build resources. But don't worry - you can still easily monitor these resources using ...

VSTest task dons a new avatar – testing with unified agents and phases

March 26, 2017 Mar 26, 2017 03/26/17
Prachi Bora (MSFT)
Visual Studio Test (VSTest) and the Run Functional Test (RFT) tasks are used widely for continuous testing with Team Build and Release Management. As we thought about how test execution in the pipeline should evolve the guiding principles were to ensure that test execution in the pipeline is fast and reliable for all types of tests, be it ...

Helping new customers get oriented, keeping our content up-to-date

March 14, 2017 Mar 14, 2017 03/14/17
Kathryn Elliott
We’re always working to keep our content as fresh and accurate as possible. We have some new content that we'd like to highlight and hopefully have you spread the word. On-boarding content for newcomers We recently wrote a set of overview topics to help orient visitors new to Team Services and TFS. These topics provide a framework for ...

Git repo tokens for the security service

March 14, 2017 Mar 14, 2017 03/14/17
Matt Cooper
The VSTS platform offers a security REST endpoint which allows you to add and remove permissions on resources. (To understand the rest of this blog post, you're going to want to skim those docs first.) Several of the security APIs, as well as TFSSecurity.exe, expect a token identifying the resource to operate on. The token format varies across...

Run To Click Debugging in Visual Studio 2017

March 7, 2017 Mar 7, 2017 03/7/17
Aaron Hallberg
You have many options when navigating through your code with the debugger in Visual Studio including setting breakpoints, stepping, and using Run to Cursor. In Visual Studio 2017 we have introduced Run to Click, a new way to more easily debug your code - point and click style. You no longer need to set temporary breakpoints or step several ...

Reattach To Process in Visual Studio 2017

March 7, 2017 Mar 7, 2017 03/7/17
Aaron Hallberg
Sometimes when developing an application you can’t simply F5 to start debugging the application. In these cases you can use Attach to Process to debug. Many times if you need to debug this way, you will often need to attach to the same application repeatedly. In Visual Studio 2017 we have introduced Reattach to Process (Shift+Alt+P) to ...

Official Release of TFVC Support for the Visual Studio Team Services Plugin for Android Studio and IntelliJ

March 7, 2017 Mar 7, 2017 03/7/17
leantk
In the 1.115.0 release of the Visual Studio Team Services plugin for Android Studio and IntelliJ, Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) support is transitioning from preview mode to official release. TFVC support was added in a preview state starting September 2016 and continually has had more functionality added to it with each iteration. ...

Open Source Scanning in Visual Studio Team Services with WhiteSource Bolt

March 7, 2017 Mar 7, 2017 03/7/17
Sam Guckenheimer
Most organizations today consume open source software in their development projects. The reuse of components enables great productivity gains. However, this practice has an unintended consequence: you can reuse security vulnerabilities or violate licenses without realizing the risk. I wrote about this in an article in MSDN Magazine on Rugged ...

New Git Features in Visual Studio 2017

March 6, 2017 Mar 6, 2017 03/6/17
Kayla Ngan (MSFT)
We've added new Git features to Visual Studio 2017 that allow you to do more of your end-to-end workflow without leaving the IDE. You can perform a force push to complete a rebase or push an amended commit, easily view the diff for outgoing commits, unset your upstream branch, and continue patch rebase from VS. Additionally, because we moved ...