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Visual Studio SP1 Refresh Releases!

March 7, 2007 Mar 7, 2007 03/7/07
Brian Harry
Yesterday we released VS 2005 SP1 refresh (this is what we have, in the past, called the Vista GDR).  Primarily it is a set of bug fixes to make VS 2005 work really well on Vista.  You can read more about it here:  http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2007/mar07/03-06VisualStudio.mspx And you can download it here: http://...

DevDiv Dogfood Status Update

March 6, 2007 Mar 6, 2007 03/6/07
Brian Harry
The deployment of Orcas to the DevDiv dogfood server finished ahead of schedule this weekend.  We completed the procedure by Saturday night thanks to hard work from the IT team and key people on the TFS team assisting.  We spent Sunday shaking out a couple of issues with the system and went live for real early Monday.  As of ...

Some Cool Posts

March 3, 2007 Mar 3, 2007 03/3/07
Brian Harry
I've seen some cool posts on our product over the past few days that I wanted to bring to your attention. I also wanted to mention that this weekend is a big weekend for us.  This is the weekend that we upgrade the DevDiv TFS server to an Orcas build.  We've spent the last month preparing for it - testing, perf testing, load ...

Updated VS 2005 SDK Available

March 2, 2007 Mar 2, 2007 03/2/07
Brian Harry
Wow, it's hard to keep up with all of the cool stuff for me to talk about!  Yesterday we released an updated version of the VS SDK and it's full of lots of cool new stuff.  You can download it here if you want to check it out.  You can also read more about it in eWeek. I won't list the wide array of improvements, but we (the TFS...

Visual Studio Orcas March CTP is Available!

March 1, 2007 Mar 1, 2007 03/1/07
Brian Harry
The Visual Studio "Orcas" March CTP is available and now contains TFS.  In this you will find the majority of the feature work we plan to do for our Orcas release.  I appreciate those of you who can look it over and give us feedback.  Use http://connect.microsoft.com to give us the feedback (or, if you want, you can comment on ...