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....
Announced at Connect() today were a couple of new tools that could really help a team with their DevOps issues when working with VSTS and Azure (and potentially other scenarios too). DevTest Lab is a new set of tooling within the Azure portal that allows the easy management of Test VMs, their creation and management as well as providing a means to control how many VMs team members can create, thus controlling cost....
One of the many interesting announcements at Connect() today was that the new Microsoft Chrome Extension for Exploratory Testing is available in the Chrome Store This is a great tool if you use VSO, sorry VSTS, allowing an easy way to ‘kick the tyres’ on your application, logging any bugs directly back to VSTS as Bug work items. Best of all, it makes it easy to test your application on other platforms with the link to Perfecto Mobile....