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June 2017 - Azure DevOps Blog

Top stories from the VSTS community – 2017.06.30

June 30, 2017 Jun 30, 2017 06/30/17
Willy-P. Schaub
Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics. (image)  TOP STORIES TIP: If you want to get your VSTS news in audio form then be sure to subscribe to RadioTFS . (image)  FEEDBACK What do you think? How could we do this series better? Here are some ways to ...

See the big picture with ProductPlan, and drag & drop your work items to plan your sprints with Sprint Drop Plan calendar in the June Team Services Extensions Round-up

June 30, 2017 Jun 30, 2017 06/30/17
Joe Bourne
This month I've got two extensions to enhance how you plan. Whether you're sharing a product roadmap with partners, or planning a sprint for your engineering team, the Marketplace continues to have you covered. (image) ProductPlan I am a big fan of communicating the big picture to my team and partners. It helps align everyone to the team ...

Extension reporting hub for Marketplace publishers

June 29, 2017 Jun 29, 2017 06/29/17
Divya Vaishnavi
Visual Studio Marketplace is the one stop shop where developers, teams or organizations, can discover and acquire as well as offer and monetize extensions for the Visual Studio family of products i.e. Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS), Team Foundation Server (TFS), Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code. This ecosystem is powered by a community...

Top stories from the VSTS community – 2017.06.23

June 23, 2017 Jun 23, 2017 06/23/17
Willy-P. Schaub
Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics. (image)  TOP STORIES TIP: If you want to get your VSTS news in audio form then be sure to subscribe to RadioTFS . (image)  FEEDBACK What do you think? How could we do this series better? Here are some ways to ...

Top stories from the VSTS community – 2017.06.16

June 16, 2017 Jun 16, 2017 06/16/17
Willy-P. Schaub
Greg Duncan, Martin Woodward and I (Willy) were chatting recently about all the great news posts that Greg pulls together for the Radio TFS podcast and what a shame it was that so many of them ended up on the cutting room floor. So instead we thought that instead it would be good to do a round-up on our blog from time to time - hope you find ...

View tags for git repositories

June 14, 2017 Jun 14, 2017 06/14/17
Sandeep Chadda (MSFT)
Git repositories now show tags that allow you to mark important points in your repo's history. Now you can easily bookmark a specific commit in your git repository to compare to other commits in the future. In this post, I will talk about how you can easily manage following git tag related tasks in VSTS : Create a tag...

Accelerated Continuous Testing with Test Impact Analysis – Part 3

June 13, 2017 Jun 13, 2017 06/13/17
Pratap Lakshman
At its core, TIA collects, and subsequently consults, a map of the dynamic dependencies of each test method as it is executing. As the test method is executing it will cover various methods - the source file in which those methods reside are the dynamic dependencies that get tracked. So, the mapping ends up like the following: and so on...

Mobile work item form general availability

June 6, 2017 Jun 6, 2017 06/6/17
Christopher Schleiden [MSFT]
We are very excited to announce the general availability of the mobile work item form and the mobile My work items page in Visual Studio Team Services. We now have a full end-to-end experience to find work items that matter to you, and view and edit them using a form optimized for mobile devices. Mobile work item form About five months ago ...

Building and Deploying a Java Application to Oracle WebLogic Server Running in Azure VM with Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services

June 6, 2017 Jun 6, 2017 06/6/17
Emin Askerov
If you are interested in Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) platform and Java development, maybe you know that VSTS has everything you need to organize CI/CD pipeline for your Java application development. Visual Studio ALM Blog has a lot of useful and helpful resources describing how to build and deploy your Java application and ...