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August 31, 2011Aug 31, 201108/31/11Here’s the next post in my series of “Developers are raving fans” enhancements coming in TFS 11. My last post was on workspace improvements.
One of the things we consistently get customer feedback on in TFS 2010 is that merging is still too complicated and/or too limited.
August 29, 2011Aug 29, 201108/29/11For all of you who have been waiting to create App-V images of VS 2010, it’s finally possible. You’ll need VS 2010 + SP1 + 1 patch and App-V 4.6 SP1. Here’s some instructions for how to do it.
You might wonder why it hasn’t just always worked.
August 24, 2011Aug 24, 201108/24/11When you purchase Software Assurance along with your software purchases from Microsoft, you get Deployment Planning Services“ credits. These credits can be spent on deployment planning training/consulting on all manner of Microsoft software. This is nothing new. It’s been in place for a while.
August 19, 2011Aug 19, 201108/19/11Yesterday we released the latest version of the TFS Power Tools that I described here
Here are the links:
TFS 2010 Power Tools
MSSCCI Provider
Build Extensions
**UPDATE**: Here’s a new “short” link to the main VS Power Tools landing page: https://aka.ms/tfpt
It’s another very nice upgrade of the Power Tools with some long awaited features.
August 16, 2011Aug 16, 201108/16/11Every year, on the farm, I pick a few “big” projects to do. Earlier this year I built cattle handling facilities. I’m also building goat fencing – and if you think that’s a small feat, you just haven’t been around goats.
August 9, 2011Aug 9, 201108/9/11Finally. Yesterday we republished the TFS 2010 SP1 Cumulative update. You’ll find the download here:
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=26211
You can read my original article about it to learn more: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bharry/archive/2011/06/13/tfs-2010-sp1-cumulative-update-1-available.aspx
To refresh your memory, the update was pulled due to two bugs:
1) Installing it on a TFS Proxy server broke the proxy server,
August 8, 2011Aug 8, 201108/8/11We’re in final testing for the August release of the TFS Power Tools. I’ve been playing around with it for the past couple of days and it’s looking really good. In this post I’ll give you a sneak preview of what is coming and then,
August 5, 2011Aug 5, 201108/5/11I realized it’s not really right for me to say we’ve shipped 75 releases in the past 18 months and then leave you to guess what they were. I asked Jeff for the slide he presented and have copied the data here.
August 4, 2011Aug 4, 201108/4/11In my post on MTM performance, Lachlan asked if we plan to start releasing VS more often. I wrote an answer but it got so long that I decided to turn it into a post instead. Here it is…
As for release cadence,
August 2, 2011Aug 2, 201108/2/11If you check out our User Voice site, 4 of the top 5 voted items have to do with performance. Over the next few months I’ll comment about some of the work we are doing around VS performance (and there has been a lot).
