October 2012 | Brian Harry's Blog

Team Foundation Service RTM

Brian HarryOctober 31, 2012Oct 31, 201210/31/12

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

Brian HarryOctober 30, 2012Oct 30, 201210/30/12

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 ...

Team Foundation Service Updates – Oct 29th

Brian HarryOctober 30, 2012Oct 30, 201210/30/12

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

Brian HarryOctober 29, 2012Oct 29, 201210/29/12

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

Brian HarryOctober 24, 2012Oct 24, 201210/24/12

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

Brian HarryOctober 11, 2012Oct 11, 201210/11/12

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 We originally made this limited-time benefit available to our US subscribers over the summer.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

Brian HarryOctober 9, 2012Oct 9, 201210/9/12

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...

Team Foundation Service Update – Oct 9 and VS 2012 Update 1 CTP

Brian HarryOctober 9, 2012Oct 9, 201210/9/12

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 ...

Building a goat barn

Brian HarryOctober 2, 2012Oct 2, 201210/2/12

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