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Application Insights for Visual Studio Online

Shantha Kumari

Building successful apps is a continuous delivery and constant process, with focus on speed to market and evolution. This requires making successful decisions based on user behaviour and habits. Application Insights for Visual Studio Online gives you a great insight into how, when and where your website is used.

Application Insights allows you to find performance issues earlier, diagnose crashes faster, and get smarter about your users with a 360° view of your apps and services. Using this Visual Studio Online service, allows you to manage your website smoothly in the cloud.

 

Visual Studio Online Application Insights

 

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Cloud Based Load Tests with Visual Studio Online

Shantha Kumari

An important part of the application life cycle is the Testing phase which validates and verifies whether your application confirms to the requirements and whether its built accordingly. You can create and run test plans, test suites and test cases in Team Web Access, or you can easily launch Microsoft Test Manager (MTM) to manage and run test cases. When you launch MTM, Team Web Access starts in the context of your team project, so there is no need to explicitly connect to your VSO Team Project.

The main objective of cloud based load testing is to test the capacity of a single server, uncover any serious performance issues, and identify opportunities to improve the capacity or performance of the service.

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Visual Studio Online – Who Benefits the Most?

Shantha Kumari

Visual Studio Online is the online version of Team Foundation Server (TFS). They are both are complete Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools. The difference is that the Visual Studio Online is completely managed in the cloud by Microsoft. It brings all the capabilities of working in the cloud right to your fingertips. A single account creation lets you benefit from the cloud computing features while keeping your application development costs to a minimal.

Today’s application development involves cross -platform, multi-language with various features and developer needs. Visual Studio Online lets your development team to access the tools and services offered by the Azure cloud, while you concentrate on the development. Microsoft will manage the servers and do the backups for you automatically.Using the Visual Studio Online, you can create any number of projects and manage them online.

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