#Visual Studio Team Services

Load testing using Azure

So everyone wants to have the ultimate system that never breaks can handle ‘all’ the users and shows no strain when doing so. How do you accomplish something like this? Well you could hire developers that know all the best ways to do everything, experts in everything related to configuring applications to run the best that they can on the hardware and software it sits on but what’s the odds of that happening. The other option is to have a bank account that is never ending and throw ‘all’ the hardware at your application to make sure it doesn’t ever have a slow day but then how are you making your money, how do you know when ‘all’ the hardware isn’t enough.

Posted on October 08, 2015 - Azure Load Testing Visual Studio Team Services

A 'Hello World' for VSTS Extensions

So if you haven't heard yet VSO Extensions are now in a private preview where you can sign up to get into the preview on extensions integration site. These extensions in the shortest sentence a supported way of doing customizations to VSO that will replace any of the "hacky" extensions that you may be playing around with at the moment like Tiago Pascal's Task Board Enhancer or maybe you have even created your own following similar steps to what I show in my TFS 2013 Customization book.

Posted on June 18, 2015 - Azure Free Stuff Getting Started GitHub Projects Grab Some Coffee Rangers Research Visual Studio Team Services VSTS / TFS VSTS Extensions

Creating Iterations in VSTS

This post is part of an overall Series on Visual Studio Online.

Posted on May 25, 2015 - Visual Studio Team Services VSTS / TFS VSTS Series

Connecting Test Manager to VSTS

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Posted on May 22, 2015 - Test Manager Visual Studio Team Services VSTS / TFS VSTS Series

Connecting Visual Studio to VSTS

This post is part of an overall Series on Visual Studio Online.

Posted on May 18, 2015 - Visual Studio Visual Studio Team Services VSTS / TFS VSTS Series

Creating your first VSTS Team Project

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Posted on May 15, 2015 - Visual Studio Team Services VSTS / TFS VSTS Series

Create a new VSTS account

This post is part of an overall Series on Visual Studio Online.

Posted on May 11, 2015 - Visual Studio Team Services VSTS / TFS VSTS Series

How to Enable Alternate Credentials in Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS)

Ok so obviously the first you need is to have a VSO account. If you have one already, awesome, continue on and skip this section.

Posted on January 16, 2015 - Visual Studio Team Services VSTS / TFS

Creating a VSTS Account for Demos

I need a VSO account for Demos which needs to be separate from my personal and business VSO accounts. The problem is though if you go to the Visual Studio Online page and click Get started for free

Posted on September 26, 2014 - Visual Studio Team Services VSTS / TFS