It’s been a while since I last talked about our work on TFS on Azure and I’ve been feeling like it’s time to give some kind of an update. We made a bunch of new ALM announcements about our ALM roadmap at TechEd and we didn’t say too much about hosted TFS, so you may be wondering what we’ve been up to. We’ve...
For the last year or so I’ve been giving talks about trends in software development and particularly ALM. I’ve described one of the big upcoming trends as the need for better collaboration between development and operations. The state of that collaboration today is not great even given our current technology stacks. However, as cloud architectur...
Yesterday was a big day for us! In his keynote at TechEd yesterday Jason Zander gave an overview of our ALM roadmap. In a follow up session Cameron Skinner did more of a deep dive, demonstrating many of the new features coming in the next version. You can read a really good overview here on Jason’s blog: http://blogs.msdn.co...
From the beginning, extensibility of TFS was a core design principle – both to enable great 3rd party partners (like Ekobit, Urban Turtle, InCycle and more) and because almost all development shops have a need to customize the tools they use. As such we’ve provided a .NET library for interacting with and extending TFS from day one. And ...
discount ASP.net has added an option to their hosted TFS service for you to host your TFS in the UK. If you want to learn more, check it out here: http://www.discountasp.net/tfs/Brian
With the release of the final Feature Pack of the TFS/PS connector, we’ve now released an updated virtual machine that contains full configured and ready to test drive bits with all the final software. You can read Brian Keller’s blog entry on it to get all the details on how to get the VM: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/briankel/archive...
I ran across this today and thought you might find it useful. If you’d like to try our Azure with no-strings attached, no credit card, no commitment, there’s a cool offer available now. You can learn more about it here: http://windowsazurepass.com/ Enter the promo code: CRMIKEA to get access for 1 month. You’ll get… Brian
This week we released, both to the MSDN subscriber download site and to public downloads, a language pack for Team Explorer Everywhere 2010 SP1. This language pack includes Japanese, French and German resources that can be added to your English Team Explorer Everywhere installation. After installing them, TEE will use the appropriate la...
One of the fairly common requests we get is for some way to organize build definitions. If you have more than a dozen or two build definitions in a single Team Project, the Team Explorer starts to get unwieldy. At our MVP Summit a couple of months ago, one of our MVPs presented a cool Team Explorer extension he had built for organizing build defi...
We’ve just completed a nice case study with InnovaSystems on their adoption of Team Foundation Server in order to achieve CMMI Level 3 compliance. http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Microsoft-.NET-Framework-4/InnovaSystems-International/Defense-Contractor-Earns-CMMI-L3-Rating-Raises-Productivity-by-Up-to-25-Percent/4000009464 Brian
