Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) is an extremely robust, extensible and configurable application lifecycle management tool that facilitates good DevOps practices within your organization. You may…

DevOps, DevOps, DevOps. When you talk to people focused on building and delivering custom software solutions, it seems that this is the topic they all want to know about. Luckily, Microsoft offers a…

DevOps, DevOps, DevOps. When you talk to people focused on building and delivering custom software solutions, it seems that this is the topic they all want to know about. Luckily, Microsoft offers a…

DevOps, DevOps, DevOps. When you talk to people focused on building and delivering custom software solutions, it seems that this is the topic they all want to know about. Luckily, Microsoft offers a…

Coffee and Code – Visual Studio for Java Developers! Let's face it. When we say "Java", chances are very unlikely that the first company you think of is Microsoft. That's ok, it doesn't…

On Being the Governor of your Azure Dev/Test Environments Microsoft Azure is awesome for doing development and testing. The ability to spin up, spin down, create and destroy environments at the snap…

Automated Testing with Visual Studio Learn about Visual Studio's world-class automated testing capabilities in this episode of BreakPoint, automated testing is a great way to help not only your…

De-stress with Debugging and Diagnostics On this episode of Breakpoint, Paul and Jonathan share their thoughts around debugging, diagnostics and reveal the secret of how they came up with the name…

An Introduction to the new TFS/VSO Build System Build services are foundational to a good DevOps strategy. TFS has had a scalable build capability since the product launched in 2005, as did Visual…

Introducing Visual Studio Enterprise 2015 On July 20, 2015, the next step in the evolution of Visual Studio was released to the public. This is a big release for Visual Studio, including a number of…

Deploying software across environments can be a problematic at times. Some deployment processes can be automated, some are best left as manual tasks. Regardless of the approach, it's usually a…

DevOps is a popular buzzword these days, but really, what is DevOps? It means a lot of different things to different people. One thing is clear, however. DevOps is not a product or a process. It's…

How do you know if your application is hitting the mark with its users? Sure, you may have a hunch in a qualitative sense that your app makes its users happy (or not!), but in a true, quantitative…

Have you ever been on a software project where the requirements that were published did not quite meet the needs of the end users? Admit it - you probably have. And if you have, did you not find out…

You've built an app. It's become very successful and you're finding that it's tougher and tougher to keep up with user demand because your server resource capacity is maxed out. What do you do? …

When you ask people that build software what some of the common tasks are, a large majority of responses include the word "testing". Testing is IMPORTANT and every software project needs…

Development teams that have MSDN subscriptions see immense value in the offering. Yes, the subscription provides the user assigned the MSDN license the ability to download enterprise-grade software…

Have you ever looked at your code and thought that if you could JUST get it organized and versioned properly, you would be better off? Traditionally, version control meant you had to install some…

Mobile applications are all the rage, given the proliferation of handheld devices in the market today. Understanding which platform options that are out there and which one to choose is a significant…

We get it. Managing software projects can be hard. But Microsoft's ALM platform (including Team Foundation Server) provides the best software project management solution on the market for making…

One of the challenges developers face is finding the right platform to host backend services for apps. While the application is the piece of the puzzle users interact with, much of the magic happens…

When data is transformed into information it becomes a powerful and actionable tool for decision-making. But data doesn't exist in a vacuum. Some of the best SQL server tools for data development run…

Application Architects are a vital part of any custom development project. They create the design of the software to be built, guide Development teams through the process of implementation, help the…

If you are an avid user of Visual Studio, you may already know that the VS product team is now releasing quarterly updates on the tooling and this Spring is no different. Earlier this spring, the…

Code, manage, test and deploy your applications directly from the cloud. On this episode of Breakpoint, Jonathan and Paul walk you through Visual Studio Online. Become familiar with the tools…

It seems that the term DevOps is gaining steam in IT circles these days. There are good reasons for that. The software tooling market continues to innovate and with it comes offerings that make it…

As you already know, Visual Studio (especially Visual Studio 2013) provides amazing tools for you to build Windows Store apps, Windows Phone apps, desktop apps, Windows Azure services, and Web apps.…

On this episode of Breakpoint, Jonathan and Paul thought they'd take their own spin on talking Windows Azure. Visual Studio 2013 is the best front-end to the Windows Azure development platform, and as…

Developers come in all shapes and sizes. You have preferences as to what environment and languages you choose to developer your code. Interestingly enough, Visual Studio and its Application…

Flexibility and agility in Visual Studio 2013 enables development teams and organizations to do ALM their way. Visual Studio Guru Adam Gallant shows off how Visual Studio 2013, TFS, and Visual Studio…