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Team Foundation Service RTM

October 31, 2012 Oct 31, 2012 10/31/12
Brian Harry
Today, we announced that the Team Foundation Service has released.  Read more about it on the service web site here: http://tfs.visualstudio.com/en-us/home/news/. I wanted to provide a bit of my own commentary (beyond what I put on the web site news)… Our original plan was to hold RTM until all the billing infrastructure is in place...

Manual testing in the browser

October 30, 2012 Oct 30, 2012 10/30/12
Brian Harry
In my Update 1 preview post 6 weeks ago, I described a new capability enabling test case management and manual testing from within a browser, rather than having to install Test Professional on the target machine.  Unfortunately, we had to make the decision a couple of weeks ago to pull that from Update 1.  That, of course, is the ...
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Team Foundation Service Updates – Oct 29th

October 30, 2012 Oct 30, 2012 10/30/12
Brian Harry
Yesterday, we deployed our sprint 38 work to the service.  You can read the release notes on the service here: http://tfspreview.com/en-us/home/news/2012/oct-29/ Other than some bug fixes, this sprint was primarily about our build automation features.  We announced the new build drops feature, the ability to download builds as zips ...

Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 – Final CTP

October 29, 2012 Oct 29, 2012 10/29/12
Brian Harry
UPDATE Nov-28 2012 Update 1 has now released and the final CTP is no longer available.  See this post for more info: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bharry/archive/2012/11/26/visual-studio-2012-update-1-is-available.aspx Today we released the final CTP of Visual Studio 2012 Update 1.  You can visit the download page here.  You can also ...

Typescript – a real world story of adoption in TFS

October 24, 2012 Oct 24, 2012 10/24/12
Brian Harry
As you may know, we've had a web UI for TFS for quite some time.  In our TFS 2012 release, we did a pretty major overhaul of our web UI to modernize it - both in look and feel and in architecture.  We moved to REST/Json, and a lot more in-browser Javascript and a lot fewer Ajax calls.  The result has been a faster, more ...

MSDN subscribers worldwide get Pluralsight Starter Subscription

October 11, 2012 Oct 11, 2012 10/11/12
Brian Harry
Today we announced that MSDN subscribers around the world are eligible for a 12-month Pluralsight training subscription. We originally made this limited-time benefit available to our US subscribers over the summer.  Due to the great response and feedback from our customers, we’re excited to expand this benefit globally through ...

RedGate supports Team Foundation Service

October 9, 2012 Oct 9, 2012 10/9/12
Brian Harry
RedGate now supports connecting to http://tfspreview.com.  Read more here: http://sqlblog.com/blogs/andy_leonard/archive/2012/10/08/redgate-sql-source-control-and-tfspreview.aspx Brian...
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Team Foundation Service Update – Oct 9 and VS 2012 Update 1 CTP

October 9, 2012 Oct 9, 2012 10/9/12
Brian Harry
Yesterday, two significant things happened (ok, maybe more than that, but two I'm going to talk about :)). Like clock work, we deployed our end-of-sprint update to the Team Foundation Service.  You can read more about it in the update news. We also released a CTP of Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 (CTP - stands for Community Technology ...
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Building a goat barn

October 2, 2012 Oct 2, 2012 10/2/12
Brian Harry
It’s been a long time since my last farm post.  As I’m just wrapping up a major project, I figure now is a good time to provide an update.  When we first bought the farm, we thought our primary activity was going to be goats.  After doing some research on difficulty of raising goats, market for goats, etc we decided to go ...

Codeplex upgraded to TFS 2012

October 2, 2012 Oct 2, 2012 10/2/12
Brian Harry
I haven’t been blogging about it regularly (because there’s a separate Codeplex blog) but Codeplex continues to march forward.  We’ve done some good work on pull request workflow, work on streamlining and bringing forward the code focused experience, etc.  This last week, we also upgraded our Codeplex TFS servers to...