Showing results for January 2007 - Brian Harry's Blog

Jan 26, 2007
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SourceSafe on Vista

Brian Harry
Brian Harry

Richard Berg has some news to share about SourceSafe and Vista support and he asked that I help get some eyes on it.  If you are interested in SourceSafe, please take a look at: Thanks Brian

Visual Studio
Jan 25, 2007
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TeamCity adding support for TFS

Brian Harry
Brian Harry

JetBrains, the makers of TeamCity, Resharper and other cool developer productivity tools have begun integration with TFS (in addition to SourceSafe, Subversion and other systems they already support).  They have a pre-release of TeamCity available for download.  I encourage anyone who's interested to check it out and let them (and me...

Jan 22, 2007
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TFSServerManager PowerTool

Brian Harry
Brian Harry

Ever since we started dogfooding TFS internally, I've been working on a tool I call TFSServerManager.  It's a bit of a misnomer because it's not really a management tool as much as it is an operations tool.  In the very early days it started as a tool to help me produce the dogfood statistics you see on my blog every month - I've been sen...

TFS Dogfood statistics
Jan 19, 2007
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A VS SP1 Bug Fix List Posted

Brian Harry
Brian Harry

Yesterday we posted a list of all bugs that were reported through the http://connect.microsoft.com site and fixed in VS2005 SP1.  The link is here and you'll find that there are 398 of them.  You can click in the link for each bug and go to the Connect bug report and read details about the problem. I'm pleased to see us continuing to make...

Visual Studio
Jan 14, 2007
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Orcas Work Item Tracking Performance Improvements

Brian Harry
Brian Harry

Back in October I published some results from the performance work we've done on version control for Orcas.  We've also been working on work item tracking performance improvements - I mentioned them in our last dogfood server statistics.  I'm very pleased with the results and thought I'd share them with you. First you have to understand t...

Jan 12, 2007
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5 Things You Didn't Know About Me

Brian Harry
Brian Harry

Thanks for tagging me Rob (I think :))  I can't say I've ever heard of this game before but I guess I'm in.  It seems a bit like a new version of a chain letter (do they every really go away?) but I suppose no harm is done :) I don't think coming up with interesting things about me is my strength.  Overall, I'm a pretty boring guy - ...

Jan 11, 2007
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January DevDiv TFS Dogfood Statistics

Brian Harry
Brian Harry

I skipped the December dogfood update because the activity numbers were so skewed at the end of the month by people’s vacations.  There’s nothing that particularly stands out about the dogfood server over the last month.  It continues to grow.  Availability has been good.  Performance continues to improve. ...

TFS Dogfood statistics
Jan 11, 2007
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January Visual Studio "Orcas" CTP Available

Brian Harry
Brian Harry

Great news! Visual Studio Code Name "Orcas" January 2007 CTP is now available publicly to all customers!!  It is being released as a Virtual PC (VPC) image as well as a self-extracting install.. There's lots of great new stuff in it - you can check out one of the download pages for details.  Unfortuntately (as I had mentioned before...

Visual Studio
Jan 6, 2007
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Happy New Year

Brian Harry
Brian Harry

I never got around to saying it when I got back.  Sorry, just seems like there's never enough time in the day to do everything.  I hope everyone had a good time off - I know I did.  I spent WAY too much time playing World of Warcraft.  It's embarassing to admit it but I'm a massively multi-player online game addict.  Not th...

Jan 5, 2007
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New Orcas specs published

Brian Harry
Brian Harry

Today we published a bunch of new Orcas specs.  There are new/updated VS specs and 3 new (and 1 updated) TFS specs. Folder Diff - The spec for the productized version of the TreeDiff PowerToy feature.  Check it out and see the improvements we're making. Large Group Sync - A somewhat obtuse feature to improve the behavior when pe...

Visual Studio