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Someone asked me to publish a brief write up VSTS Web Access along with screen shots. It seemed like a good idea, so here you go... VSTS Web Access is a Web UI to a portion of the Team Foundation Server functionality. Over time I expect it to grow beyond what we think of as TFS today. It serves a few purposes: VSTS Web Access...
Compared to our VSTS 2005 release, the 2008 release is a fairly modest release. Mostly it's filling gaps in the offering and adding in a few nice new features. However, I think the improvements we've made in testing are are under appreciated. IMHO, we really did some great work to improve testing. These include major advance...
For that subset of you for whom it is relevant, It looks like I'm going to be at TechEd South Africa this year. It's October 21st to the 24th. I'm still finalizing plans but expect to be doing a couple of talks on TFS and VSTS. I've never been to the African continent before and am really looking forward to seeing it. If you...
Today 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. Neither...
With 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. Join the chat on Wednesday, August 1st, 2007 from 10:00am - 11:00am...
I 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. Visual Studio Orcas Install and Setup http://forums.micros...
Matias 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 - we are looking into that problem now. Overall, the offline experience for TFS in 2005 was not very go...
With 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 - This is the new web UI (formerly TeamPlain) that we acquired a few months ago. Our wor...
Here'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/ · &...
Unfortunately, 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...