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July 30, 2007Jul 30, 200707/30/07Today we released the first “official” power tool release of Team System Web Access. You can download it from here.
Let me put this in context. When Microsoft first acquired DevBiz, we provided v1.0 of TeamPlain for download. Based on customer demand, we uploaded a preview of TeamPlain 2.0.
July 30, 2007Jul 30, 200707/30/07With Beta 2 out the door now, we are having a new set of MSDN chats to talk about what’s new and what’s coming. Please join the product team! Following our recent tradition, we’ll be having 2 chats at different times to accomodate people in different parts of the world.
July 30, 2007Jul 30, 200707/30/07I suspect many of you will be trying to install VS 2008 Beta 2 in the near future. If you run into any problems, you can go to the following MSDN forums to look for help. The setup team has committed to monitoring them closely as people get over the hump of getting it installed.
July 30, 2007Jul 30, 200707/30/07Matias did a very nice write up of the new TFS version control offline support that is now available in Beta 2. I thought it would be good to share it with you. He mentions one issue about having to close and reopen the solution –
July 27, 2007Jul 27, 200707/27/07With Orcas Beta 2 now available, I’m starting to see questions about the upgrade process and the availability and interoperability of other components (that don’t ship in the box with Orcas). Let me try to clear some of this up.
VSTS Web Access –
July 26, 2007Jul 26, 200707/26/07Here’s a long list of download urls to help you quickly find what you need…
All the downloads are live!!! Below are links to landing pages as well as individual SKU downloads:
· Marketing launchpad http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/
· Express landing page is at http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/future/downloads/default.aspx
July 26, 2007Jul 26, 200707/26/07Unfortunately, I don’t have much time to write something up right now, but I wanted to let you know that Orcas Beta 2 is available today. You can download it here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/default.aspx
You can also read more about it on Soma’s blog here: http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2007/07/26/announcing-the-release-of-visual-studio-2008-beta-2-net-fx-3-5-beta-2-and-silverlight-1-0-rc.aspx
The short of it is this…
July 26, 2007Jul 26, 200707/26/07David Anderson (who used to work on the MSF team here a Microsoft) continues to be a strong advocate of Agile development practices and has an interesting idea for how to manage a virtual whiteboard based on TFS work items.
http://www.agilemanagement.net/Articles/Weblog/DigitalWhiteboardExperime.html
Brian
July 25, 2007Jul 25, 200707/25/07Yesterday, we signed off on the release of the first CTP for our Rosario release of VSTS. Rosario, as you may recall, is the code name for the release of VSTS that will follow the VS/VSTS 2008 (Orcas) release. We have not (and will not soon) be announcing anticipated timelines for Rosario,
July 24, 2007Jul 24, 200707/24/07Jeff Beehler blogged today about the final release of the WSS 3.0 guidance. It hasn’t changed much from the “pre-release” version but has incorporated some feedback. If you have already successfully used the guidance, you are set. If not, you can check this out.
