If you have used Visual Studio 2017 to connect to a Team Services instance, or you follow the Microsoft ALM blog you will have noticed that with Visual Studio 2017: Work items now open in the web from Visual Studio ’15’!
While the official post shows why that change was made…
Miriam’s blog (in German) about what we do when we are not working at MSFT:
Da wir so nah wohnen, dachten wir, fliegen wir mal nach Hawai’i. Im Mai war es endlich soweit – 10 Tage auf Kaua’i, eine der kleineren Insel des Staates Hawai’i im Norden. Da sonst nicht so…
In the last post we ended up with a list of tags a user added last to a work item. The next step is now to keep an MRU list with tags from earlier sessions and update it when new tags are added.
Every time the user adds tags to a…
I often find myself adding the same tags over and over to work items. Example: While we use features to group our user stories, it is often convenient to also add a tag per feature, since these can show up on the cards on the different boards, making it easy to…
Last year Visual Studio Team Services (formerly known as Visual Studio Online) released support for extensions. There are some great samples on GitHub and a growing number of finished extensions in the marketplace. One of my published extensions is Estimate, a planning poker implementation for VSTS.
Extending VSTS is really easy,…
Quick update: a few weeks ago I left Germany and Microsoft Consulting Services and moved to the US. I’m now a developer on the Visual Studio Online team in Redmond, WA.
If you stumble across the following error message with Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 RC:
1>[…]\Package.appxmanifest(19,64): error APPX3210: App manifest references the image ‘Assets/Icon150.png’ which does not have a candidate in main app package.
have a look a at the manifest file. In my case I had been using forward slashes…
Recently my Windows Search started to misbehave. It consumed large amounts of memory and CPU time. In addition, the index (in C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data) grew to several gigabytes.
To workaround that, I tried to reduce the indexed locations (Win + W, “change how windows searches”) and rebuild the index. So I changed the…
Recently I’ve had a problem where a deployed WebApi service did not accept the DELETE verb (locally, using IISExpress it worked). The solution was to remove the WebDAV module and handler for the specific site. So extend the web.config of the WebApi project with:
<system.webServer> <modules> <remove name="WebDAVModule" />…
Without much description here are two books I’ve recently read and which I can recommend:
1) REMOTE
Tip: Don’t read it while standing in a fully crowed train commuting to a customer.
2) The Dip
A bit older but nevertheless a worthwhile read: