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The New Team Explorer in TFS 11

September 19, 2011 Sep 19, 2011 09/19/11
Brian Harry
You’ve seen snippets of the new Team Explorer in previous posts I’ve done on version control improvements.   In this post, I’m going to focus on the new Team Explorer experience, talk a bit more about what overall changes we’ve made and why. You’ll recall that the Team Explorer window in TFS 2010 and before is a pretty ...

Team Foundation Service Registration code for Asia-Pacific

September 18, 2011 Sep 18, 2011 09/18/11
Brian Harry
I got several comments last week that posting my registration codes in the middle of the afternoon North Carolina time was not very friendly for people in the Asia-Pacific region.  It worked out to the middle of the night and since they didn’t last more than a few hours, they were all used up by the time people woke up.  ...

Improving Visual Studio Performance

September 16, 2011 Sep 16, 2011 09/16/11
Brian Harry
We've had a few healthy exchanges about performance on my blog and it's clear there's a lot of energy out there about it.  After the last exchange I kicked off a discussion internally about making sure we are directing our performance efforts at the right things.  We published a User Voice site a couple of months ago and performance ...

Configuring a build server against your shiny new hosted TFS account

September 15, 2011 Sep 15, 2011 09/15/11
Brian Harry
Now that you have a Team Foundation Service account, some of you are going to be interested in setting up a build machine to work with it.  Richard Hundhausen did a very nice video to walk you through this process but I’m going to recap it because there’s a few additional things I want to explain.  If you watch his video, it’s ...

More Team Foundation Service activation codes

September 15, 2011 Sep 15, 2011 09/15/11
Brian Harry
The demand for accounts to try out the Windows Azure based TFS Service Preview we announced yesterday has been terrific.  We've used a bunch of avenues to get codes in people's hands but the demand keeps out pacing supply.  Because of that, this morning, we bumped the number of activations on my "bharry" activation code.  There ...

VS 11/TFS 11 Developer Preview

September 15, 2011 Sep 15, 2011 09/15/11
Brian Harry
Yesterday was a pretty crazy day with our new hosted TFS Service going live.  I'd stayed pretty focused on that to make sure everything went smoothly.  But, in case of some rare anomaly that you missed it, we announced a VS 11/TFS 11 developer preview yesterday as well.  They are available to MSDN subscribers on the download ...

Team Foundation Server on Windows Azure: A Preview is available!

September 14, 2011 Sep 14, 2011 09/14/11
Brian Harry
Today at the BUILD conference, we announced availability of our Windows Azure based Visual Studio Team Foundation Service Preview. If you’ve been following my blog, then you know we’ve been working on it for a while now. We’ve had a private preview going for the past several months and are up to several hundred users. We&...

Wrapping up TFS 11 Version Control improvements

September 1, 2011 Sep 1, 2011 09/1/11
Brian Harry
This is the third post in the series on “Developers are Raving Fans” TFS features.  The first post was on workspace improvements, the second on merging and this is kind of a wrap up post that covers the rest of the version control improvements.  There’s a few more that are in progress that I’m not quite ready to talk about ...