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SmartOffice4TFS

November 18, 2013 Nov 18, 2013 11/18/13
Brian Harry
A couple of weeks ago one of our great partners, eDev Technologies (makers of InteGREAT – an excellent formal requirements management tool for TFS), released a new set of tools called SmartOffice4TFS.  Whereas InteGREAT is a pretty comprehensive requirements suite, SmartOffice4TFS is intended for teams with a less formal process but who ...

Application Insights invitation

November 15, 2013 Nov 15, 2013 11/15/13
Brian Harry
In the launch keynote on Wed, I announced, and Nicole demoed a new service on VS Online called Application Insights. I also announced that it is in “limited preview” – meaning it’s an invitation only service for now.  It’s early and we want to grow it slowly so that we can incorporate feedback early, getting fresh eyes along the ...

Launching Visual Studio 2013

November 13, 2013 Nov 13, 2013 11/13/13
Brian Harry
Today, I am in New York at the launch of Visual Studio 2013 speaking with a local audience and broadcasting around the world.  In many ways it’s a celebration of the blood, sweat and tears we put into VS 2013.  At the same time, it’s a bit anti-climactic because VS 2013 has been in preview for months and released for weeks.  For me, ...

Listen to your service – it is talking to you

November 12, 2013 Nov 12, 2013 11/12/13
Brian Harry
We had a nasty enough service incident on Friday that I can’t let it pass without commenting on it.  If you follow my blog or the service, then you know we were doing a deployment on Friday.  The natural assumption, both inside and outside Microsoft, was that it was caused by the deployment.  It wasn’t, but more on that in a minute. ...

Team Foundation Service Update – Nov 8

November 8, 2013 Nov 8, 2013 11/8/13
Brian Harry
Because of the big launch we’re doing next week, we updated TFService with the sprint 56 deployment a little early.  We deployed a couple of nice improvements today – making our charting feature easier to share and improving our load testing service.  You can read more about the changes in the release notes. Next week is ...

TFS Git support for Continuous Delivery to Azure Web Sites and Services

November 7, 2013 Nov 7, 2013 11/7/13
Brian Harry
A little over a year ago we unveiled a continuous delivery feature for TFS –> Azure, allowing you to configure the TFS build pipeline to automatically deploy to running Azure applications.  In the intervening time, we added Git support to TFS but getting Git integrated into all of our scenarios is a journey.  This week we ...

Team Explorer Everywhere 2013 is Available

November 3, 2013 Nov 3, 2013 11/3/13
Brian Harry
Among the deluge of Visual Studio 2013 releases in October, we shipped the 2013 release of Team Explorer Everywhere – updating the experience for team members working in Eclipse and/or on non-Windows environments.  Team Explorer Everywhere includes an Eclipse plug-in, a cross-platform command line client, and a Java SDK for building custom ...

Visual Studio 2012 tools for Git RTM

October 30, 2013 Oct 30, 2013 10/30/13
Brian Harry
We released the first drop of our Visual Studio tools for Git about a year ago as a plugin for VS 2012.  Our ultimate goal was to release them as part of VS 2013 RTM (and we did).  At the same time, we wanted to iterate quickly on VS 2012 because we could get a lot more feedback and because there’s always an adoption curve for ...

Team Rooms in Visual Studio

October 26, 2013 Oct 26, 2013 10/26/13
Brian Harry
In TFS 2013, we introduced a new feature called “Team Rooms” that keep a record of things that happen in your team – checkins, work item updates, build failures, code reviews, etc.  And you can have conversations about the activity directly in the team room.  This keeps a durable record of what’s happening in the team and makes it ...