HockeyApp is a fantastic tool for managing mobile devops.  It includes capabilities to publish apps to a select group of “beta testers”, to collect feedback from those testers and to gather and analyze crash reports.  It works incredibly well for iOS, Android and Windows UWP apps.  As of today, HockeyApp can also be purchased in the Visual Studio Marketplace...

Today we released release candidate 2 of TFS 2015 Update 2 and the release candidate of Visual Studio 2015 Update 2. Download TFS 2015 Update 2 RC 2 TFS Release notes Download VS 2015 Update 2 RC VS Release notes Landing page with a full list of downloads As usual I’ll mostly comment on TFS and TFS related features and let the VS blog cover broader...

Another good book recently hit the virtual shelves – this one on Continuous Deployment with TFS and VS Team Services.  The book covers both the principles and practices around continuous delivery, as well as hands on guidance.  Check it out… USA – http://www.amazon.com/Continuous-Delivery-Visual-Studio-2015/dp/1484212738 UK   – http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1484212738...

One of our MVPs, Tarun Arora just published a book on TFS 2015.  It covers TFS up to TFS 2015 Update 2.  Check it out… http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1784391050. Brian

Today we released TFS 2015 Update 2 RC 1 and VS 2015 Update 2 CTP1.  I’m going to talk about TFS here and you can go to the Visual Studio blog to learn more about VS. This release of TFS is a “go-live” release candidate.  We will support customers choosing to install it in a production environment.  All the links you should need to learn about it and...

We are committed to making VS Team Services a great solution for all developers – for any application on any platform.  For several years now, we’ve had a concerted effort to build a great solution for Java developers with an Eclipse plugin, a cross platform command line, an IntelliJ plugin, a cross platform build agent and so much more.  We’ve also...