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September 2017 - Azure DevOps Blog

Using the latest NuGet in your build

September 29, 2017 Sep 29, 2017 09/29/17
Alex Mullans
NuGet (both the command-line tool and the accompanying tools built into Visual Studio) continues to iterate rapidly and add support for new .NET Core and .NET Standard target frameworks, among other improvements. Naturally, many users of Team Build in Visual Studio Team Services want to build those apps, and we've seen some support issues ...

Top stories from the VSTS community – 2017.09.29

September 29, 2017 Sep 29, 2017 09/29/17
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 (image) HAVE SOME FUN (image) VIDEOS 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 ...

Chef brings Habitat to VSTS, and Agile Extensions makes editing your backlog a breeze

September 29, 2017 Sep 29, 2017 09/29/17
Joe Bourne
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 the newest awesome ...

DevOps sessions at Microsoft Ignite 2017

September 23, 2017 Sep 23, 2017 09/23/17
Anisha Pindoria
Microsoft Ignite is happening next week in Orlando, and we are really excited to be there! Microsoft Ignite is an IT Professional and Developer conference that happens yearly, with over 700+ sessions, insights, roadmaps and live demos from the products you use every day. The Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) team will be there and you don’t...

Top stories from the VSTS community – 2017.09.22

September 22, 2017 Sep 22, 2017 09/22/17
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 (image) RADIOTFS 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...

Remembering How We Should Manage Open Source

September 22, 2017 Sep 22, 2017 09/22/17
Sam Guckenheimer
A DevSecOps best practice is root cause analysis, so that we can learn from live site incidents and prevent their recurrence. Equifax made news recently with the exfiltration of data from half the US population. This is a sobering opportunity to look at the root cause. The Equifax attack used Apache Struts, a popular open source project for ...

What’s new in TFS 2017 Update 3 RC

September 20, 2017 Sep 20, 2017 09/20/17
Alex Nichols
(image) 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 ...

Visual Studio Team Services is in Canada!

September 18, 2017 Sep 18, 2017 09/18/17
Aaron Hallberg
In 2014, we set a goal to make Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) a global service. This is driven by our commitment to provide our customers around the world great performance and compliance with local data sovereignty requirements. Between 2014 and 2016 we announced VSTS instances in Europe, Australia, India, and Brazil. Along the way we ...

Top stories from the VSTS community – 2017.09.15

September 15, 2017 Sep 15, 2017 09/15/17
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 (image) VIDEOS 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 ...