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News from Connect();

November 12, 2014 Nov 12, 2014 11/12/14

Brian Harry

This week we had our “Connect();” developer event in New York. We made a ton of announcements. You’ll find a bunch on Soma’s blog, the Visual Studio blog, the Visual Studio ALM blog and in the release notes. At the highest level, we announced: I also previewed some features that will be coming to VS ...

Connect(); is today

November 12, 2014 Nov 12, 2014 11/12/14

Brian Harry

Our Connect(); event for developers is today. I’m in New York getting ready for a few presentations I’m giving. It’s going to be a busy day because we have a lot of stuff to tell you about – some of it, I think, pretty exciting and unexpected. If you’ve got time, I encourage you to tune into the ...

VS Online Data Protection

October 30, 2014 Oct 30, 2014 10/30/14

Brian Harry

It’s not uncommon that I get questions about data security and privacy in Visual Studio Online. It’s something we take very seriously, design for, test for and focus on. Jeff Beehler, who runs our compliance team, did a talk at TechEd Europe this week on our data protection approach. As he worked to put together his ...

Super simple load test trial experience

October 29, 2014 Oct 29, 2014 10/29/14

Brian Harry

In order to make it super easy for anyone to get a tiny taste of what the VS Online load test experience is about, we added a new web based experience a few days ago. ***UPDATE 10/29/2014 12:30PM EDT*** - When I wrote this, I wasn't aware that it is only available to VS Online customers licensed with an MSDN Ultimate subscription. We're ...

TechEd Europe 2014 News

October 28, 2014 Oct 28, 2014 10/28/14

Brian Harry

Today, in the keynote for TechEd Europe, we announced several cool new things… VS Online European data center We now have a VS Online instance in the Azure “West Europe” data center and it is open for business. You can read more about it in my separate post. VS Online REST APIs and Service Hooks RTM This spring, at TechEd in ...

Visual Studio Online is in Europe!

October 27, 2014 Oct 27, 2014 10/27/14

Brian Harry

Today we opened up our shiny, new VS Online instance in the Azure “West Europe” region, which is located in the Netherlands. This is a big step and is the first of many more to come in making VS Online a truly global service. I’ve been getting requests for over a year to provide the ability to host data in different regions...

Visual Studio and TFS 2013.4 (Update 4) Release Candidate

October 16, 2014 Oct 16, 2014 10/16/14

Brian Harry

It’s time! The Release Candidate of Visual Studio 2013.4 and Team Foundation Server 2013.4 is here. I’ve written some posts about the CTPs along the way. But I’ll give a high-level recap of the ALM improvements and talk about a few of the new things showing up in this RC. Work item tracking and Agile project ...

Visual Studio Online Update – Oct 14th

October 15, 2014 Oct 15, 2014 10/15/14

Brian Harry

Today we began releasing our Sprint 72 build on VS Online. You can read the release notes on the site. As usual, it will take a couple of days for the changes to propagate across all accounts. This sprint was a pretty light sprint. We released the “Test artifacts as work items” changes, previously made available ...

Visual Studio Online Update – Sept 23th

September 23, 2014 Sep 23, 2014 09/23/14

Brian Harry

This week we are releasing our sprint 71 work on VS Online. You can read more about the changes on the news page. In the past, we’ve struggled with how to “time” the publishing of release notes with the deployment of the software. As we get more and more instances (we have 4 now and will be adding a 5th one ...

Visual Studio and TFS 2013.4 CTP2 is available

September 22, 2014 Sep 22, 2014 09/22/14

Brian Harry

Today we released the second CTP (community technology preview) of Visual Studio 2013 Update 4 and TFS 2013 Update 4. You can read about the VS changes on the Visual Studio blog. You can download the CTP. Or you can check out the release notes. Also here’s the link to the blog post I wrote on CTP1. TFS ...