Course Details

This 3-day introductory-level course focuses on building your software with Team Build, using Release Management for Visual Studio 2013 to release it, and Application Insights to monitor it.

The modules on Team Build cover configuring a scalable build environment, creating build definitions, executing tests as part of the build and build customization. The course covers Release Management for Visual Studio 2013 including how to install Release Management components and how to create servers and environments for use in Release Management.

Application Insights is an exciting new feature available in Visual Studio Online that allows you to monitor your application availability, performance, exceptions and much more. The course walks you through getting started with Application Insights, creating synthetic monitors, working with dashboards, and the Application Insights SDK.

At the completion of this course, attendees will be able to;

• Install and configure a scalable build environment using build controllers and build agents
• Create a build definition
• Modify and extend the build process
• Configure the execution of different test types as part of the build
• Install and configure Release Management components including the server, client and deployment agents
• Configure continuous release of your software into environments
• Create release templates for a range of applications
• Understand the capabilities and features of Application Insights
• Create custom Application Insights dashboards
• Configure Availability monitors to monitor your application health