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Update for VS 2008 and TFS 11

June 9, 2012 Jun 9, 2012 06/9/12
Brian Harry
We’ve finally gotten to shipping an update to VS 2008 SP1 to fully support TFS 11 – including the the hosted service http://www.tfspreview.com.  VS 11 has supported it from the beginning, of course.  We’ve released updates for VS 2010 SP1 along the way.  And now we have an update for VS 2008 SP1.  This ...

Upgrading the DevDiv dogfood server to TFS 11

June 8, 2012 Jun 8, 2012 06/8/12
Brian Harry
I've mentioned in a couple of posts recently how busy it's been around here lately.  One of the many things keeping us busy over the past several weeks has been upgrading the main Developer Division Team Foundation Server to TFS 11.  We've been using TFS in production on smaller servers (for example the one the TFS team uses) for ...

More on yesterday's Azure announcements

June 8, 2012 Jun 8, 2012 06/8/12
Brian Harry
Here's a link to some "chalk talk" video's on yesterday's Azure announcements.  Among them is a video from our very own Aaron Bjork on the TFS integration that we've done.  Check it out for a more colorful explanation than yesterday's blog post :) http://www.meetwindowsazure.com/DigitalChalkTalks Brian  ...

Announcing Continuous Deployment to Azure with Team Foundation Service

June 7, 2012 Jun 7, 2012 06/7/12
Brian Harry
I mentioned earlier this week in my sprint 31 deployment post that we were working on some bigger things I wasn’t ready to talk about yet.  Well, this is one of them…. As development organizations are trying to improve the cycle times on their development process – getting ideas through development and into production and collecting ...

Team Foundation Services Updates 6/4

June 4, 2012 Jun 4, 2012 06/4/12
Brian Harry
We’ve just finished sprint 31 and today we deployed it to the service.  In all, it a modest set of things but some nice improvements.  We’re now starting to get to the point that new things showing up on the service are ahead of what we have in the on premises product.  Some of this will show up in the RTM release of the on premises ...

TFS Power Tools for the RC

June 1, 2012 Jun 1, 2012 06/1/12
Brian Harry
We won't be releasing a new build of the Power Tools with the Release Candidate.  The Beta Power Tools that are available will work with the RC build.  The next time we'll update the Power Tools will be along with the final release.  Please let us know if you find any problems.Brian...

A Community for Storyboard Shapes

May 31, 2012 May 31, 2012 05/31/12
Brian Harry
A while ago, I wrote a post about the importance of feedback in the software development process.  In that post I introduced a new storyboarding tool that we’ve built as part of the VS 11 wave of products that enables you to collect feedback on your designs before you write a line of code.  In the product, we ship a bunch of pre-canned ...

Visual Studio/TFS 2012 Release Candidate Available Today

May 31, 2012 May 31, 2012 05/31/12
Brian Harry
Today we released the Release Candidate for VS, TFS and .NET (and, of course, Windows also released their RC).  You can learn more about it and download using the following links: Here are a few notes on the changes in TFS since the Beta.  Of course, we’ve done a ton of testing and fixed a lot of bugs.  So it ...

Progress on CodePlex pull requests

May 19, 2012 May 19, 2012 05/19/12
Brian Harry
If you checkout the CodePlex suggestions and feedback, you’ll see that the #1 top voted item involves improvements in pull request workflows. (image) For the second week in a row, we’ve released some nice improvements (along with other bug fixes and minor improvements). We’ve got several more weeks of work to do to ...

Formal Requirements with TFS and InteGREAT

May 16, 2012 May 16, 2012 05/16/12
Brian Harry
Over the past couple of weeks I’ve spent a fair amount of time our visiting with customers and potential customers. Much of it was spent talking about the new stuff coming with TFS/VS 11. One question that came up at probably 1/3rd of customers I visited is how to do formal requirements with TFS. If you’ve looked, you’ve probably ...