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Support on Team Foundation Service

May 24, 2013 May 24, 2013 05/24/13
Brian Harry
Update: Um, egg on face.  When I first posted this, it ended up having the email thread with the customer attached.  I updated it to remove it as quickly as possible but I sincerely apologize. I got an email from a customer a couple of days ago asking about issues he was having with Team Foundation Service.  After looping in our internal...

New Windows Dev Center release

May 16, 2013 May 16, 2013 05/16/13
Brian Harry
Yesterday we launched a new Windows Dev Center.  You might ask “Why are you telling us about that, Brian?”  Well, the answer is that my team is responsible for MSDN and much of the infrastructure behind it.  We partner very closely with the Windows team team produce an awesome Windows Dev Center.  Yesterday was the culmination of ...

Team Foundation Service Update – May 13

May 14, 2013 May 14, 2013 05/14/13
Brian Harry
Yesterday, we deployed an update to Team Foundation Service.  You can read the release notes to see the improvements.  The improvements aren’t major but there’s a few nice things – Some updates to UI styling with a greater use of color, some navigation improvements that include the ability to see the task board for ...

Some thoughts on a comment about VS 2012.3

May 8, 2013 May 8, 2013 05/8/13
Brian Harry
Yesterday, I got a thoughtful comment from Dean on my post about Update 3.  I sat down to write a response this morning and it turned into a but of a novel (in fact, the blog says it’s too long to post as a comment (image) ).  So I’ve turned it into a post.  Here was Dean’s comment: Brian, I looked at the list of fixes, you weren'...

TFS 2012.2 Power Tools update available

May 8, 2013 May 8, 2013 05/8/13
Brian Harry
Yesterday we released our update to the TFS 2012 Power Tools to work with VS/TFS 2012.2 (Update 2). Yes, I see the irony in announcing this the day after announcing the first “go-live” Update 3 CTP (image)   It took us longer than we had hoped to get the Power Tools ready.  However, we’ve made a key change to ...

Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 (VS 2012.2) ISOs available

May 6, 2013 May 6, 2013 05/6/13
Brian Harry
I’ve had a healthy discussion with some of you on this post and we’ve received quite a lot of feedback on Soma’s blog and other places.  Based on this feedback we’ve produced ISOs for Visual Studio Update 2 and decided that for these "”larger” updates, we’ll continue to do so in the future. You ...

Team Explorer Everywhere 2012 Update 2

April 29, 2013 Apr 29, 2013 04/29/13
Brian Harry
I missed announcing the availability of Team Explorer Everywhere Update 2.  We released the update the first week of April.  You can get it either by: Mostly our Update 2 for Team Explorer Everywhere contains bug fixes and small feature improvements.  Here’s a list of the improvements you will find&hellip...

Updated TFS 2010 MSSCCI Provider

April 29, 2013 Apr 29, 2013 04/29/13
Brian Harry
Last week we released an update to the TFS 2010 MSSCCI provider.  The primary motivator for this release was to enable it to work with VS 2005.  This now enables you to connect to TFS 2012 using VS 2005, particularly from Windows XP.  The support for VS 2005 was the only enhancement to this update of the 2010 MSSCCI provider. ...

Visual Studio Tools for Git Update available

April 26, 2013 Apr 26, 2013 04/26/13
Brian Harry
Yesterday, we released a major update to our Visual Studio Tools for Git.  While still nowhere near done, we feel like we’ve crossed a significant threshold of completeness and usability.  If you’re already using them or have tried them and didn’t feel they were ready, I encourage you to give this update a go. You can install the ...