I have been using a Band 2 for a couple of weeks now as opposed to my original Band. The major thing I have noticed is I don’t notice it on my wrist. It feels just like a watch. The old one, though not too bad did feel a bit lumpy, banging on the wrist. So that is an improvement, also it looks less like I am a prisoner with a tracker on day release....
Vijay in the Microsoft Release Management product group has provided a nice post on the various methods you can use to migrate from the earlier versions of Release management to the new one in Visual Studio Team Services. An area where you will find the biggest change in technology is when moving from on premises agent based releases to the new VSTS PowerShell based system. To help in this process the ALM Rangers have produced a command line tool to migrate assets from RM server to VSTS, it exports all your activities as PowerShell scripts that are easy to re-use in a vNext Release Management process, or in Visual Studio Team Services’ Release tooling....
Many of the major new features of VSTS are delivered by the new marketplace and extension model, such as code search and package management. However, did you realise that this new way of adding functionality to VSTS is open to you too, not just to Microsoft? To see what can be done why not have a look at the Visual Studio Team Services Extensions from the ALM Rangers
One announcement I missed at at Connect() last week was that of Visual Studio Dev Essentials. I only heard about this one whilst listening to RadioTFS’s news from Connect() programme. Visual Studio Dev Essentials is mostly a re-packing of all the tools that were already freely available from Microsoft e.g. Visual Studio Community Edition, Tem Foundation Server Express etc.; but there are some notable additions* (some coming soon) Pluralsight (6-month subscription)—limited time only Xamarin University mobile training— coming soon WintellectNOW (3-month subscription) Microsoft Virtual Academy HackHands Live Programming Help ($25 credit) Priority Forum Support Azure credit ($25/month for 12 months)—coming soon Visual Studio Team Services account with five users App Service free tier PowerBI free tier HockeyApp free tier Application Insights free tier *Check the Visual Studio Dev Essentials site for the detailed T&C...
SonarQube released version 5.2 a couple of weeks ago. This enabled some new features that really help if you are working with MSbuild or just on a Windows platform in general. These are detailed in the posts Support for Active Directory and Single Sign On (SSO) in the SonarQube LDAP Plugin Support for Team Foundation Server 2015 in SonarQube TFVC SCM Plugin The new ability to manage users with LDAP is good, but one of the most important for me is the way 5....