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July 28, 2008 Jul 28, 2008 07/28/08

Brian Harry

With our Rosario release, we are entering the software quality tools market in an even more serious way than we are today. You've heard me talk before about the "pillars" of the Rosario release and one of them being - Testing and Application Quality. Several months ago, we had a new guy join our organization. His name is James...

Clearing up confusion

July 19, 2008 Jul 19, 2008 07/19/08

Brian Harry

There has been quite a lot of confusion around the StyleCop free download tool that was put on Microsoft downloads a while back. It first crossed my radar probably 6 weeks ago when it was initially made available because it was positioned as a generic source analysis tool and there was a ruckus in the VSTS community about how it related ...

VSTSDB 2008 GDR July CTP is now available

July 19, 2008 Jul 19, 2008 07/19/08

Brian Harry

Microsoft® Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR July CTP http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=bb3ad767-5f69-4db9-b1c9-8f55759846ed&displaylang=en Most important changes: Project upgrade is now in place. For those of you who were kind enough to donate their database projects, thank you! ...

July '08 Power Tools are available!

July 16, 2008 Jul 16, 2008 07/16/08

Brian Harry

You can download them here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=00803636-1d16-4df1-8a3d-ef1ad4f4bbab&displaylang=en You can read all about them in the preview I wrote a couple of weeks ago: http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2008/07/08/july-08-tfs-power-tool-preview.aspx This is the first release of the Power Tools ...

Working on TFS SDK improvements

July 9, 2008 Jul 9, 2008 07/9/08

Brian Harry

We are working on improving the TFS SDK to make it easier for people who want to write extensions. There are many areas for improvement so it's hard to pick a place to start. We chose, for the first project, a sample VS add-in that demonstrates a pretty wide array of ways in which you can integrate with TFS, inside VS. It ...

Tickled by a Rosario feature

July 9, 2008 Jul 9, 2008 07/9/08

Brian Harry

Today, I'm finally getting around to working on something I've been wanting to do for a while. Rosario is a big release with a ton of great stuff and I've been thinking for a while that I really need to work on figuring out how to articulate all of that value in a way that people can really understand and be excited about. To make ...

July '08 TFS Power Tool Preview

July 8, 2008 Jul 8, 2008 07/8/08

Brian Harry

We are approaching the release date of our next release of the Team Foundation Server Power Tools. We are targeting to have it available in about 3 weeks. As I've mentioned before this is a smaller Power Tools release than we typically have done. This is because so much of our effort has been on getting TFS 2008 SP1 done.&#...

Power Tools and Software Assurance

July 5, 2008 Jul 5, 2008 07/5/08

Brian Harry

I love our Power Tool program. I really enjoy the opportunity to deliver stuff that people are wanting every few months. I also really like the very positive feedback we get on them. I'm always looking for the next "killer" Power Tool feature that we can build. One of the lingering questions that has never been answered and ...

Power Tools and Software Assurance

July 5, 2008 Jul 5, 2008 07/5/08

Brian Harry

July '08 DevDiv TFS Dogfood Statistics

July 3, 2008 Jul 3, 2008 07/3/08

Brian Harry

I missed the June Dogfood statistics - sorry about that. This report represents the change since my last dogfood report in May. The big thing that you will observe is that downloads have dropped dramatically (from a peak around ~150,000,000 to ~50,000,000). The reason for this is that we installed a TFS proxy on our corp net ...

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