Today, at Build, we unveiled a new Azure Portal experience we are building. I want to give you some insights into the work that VS Online team is doing to help with it. I’m not on the Azure team and am no expert on how they’d like to describe to the world, so please take any comments I make here about the new Azure portal as my perspective on it ...
Today is a monumental day for VS Online. It’s the culmination of a long journey from a glimmer of an idea to prototype, private preview, limited preview, public preview, “go-live” and now, finally General Availability. VS Online is ready and open for business. I’ve written a fair amount about the transition in th...
For well over a year now, we’ve been posting release notes for Visual Studio Online roughly every 3 weeks describing the enhancements we deploy each sprint. In our last redesign of the visualstudio.com site, we added a similar news feed for the on-premises products but haven’t updated it very often or provided a ton of detail.&nbs...
And VS 2013.2 RC released… OK, this is weird, I admit, so I’ll explain. Today we officially released the final version of TFS 2013 Update 2 and we released a Release Candidate of Visual Studio 2013 Update 2. It’s weird that we RTMed TFS Update to but only RCed VS Update 2. We generally work hard to RTM them at the same time. This time we cou...
Wow, this post is late. It’s been a pretty tough month for me personally. Probably the highlight was an ice storm that hit central North Carolina and crushed us. My house was without power for 4 days. The whole area looked like a war zone. There were trees down everywhere. Roads were impassable. ...
Last week we released the next CTP for VS 2013.2 and TFS 2013.2 (aka Update 2). Unfortunately, I was unable to find the time to blog about it because I was in Europe speaking at a conference and visiting customers. So, I’m correcting the error now For TFS, at least, this is a “go-live” release, meaning you can get support and we wil...
Today we finished the deployment for sprint 61. You can read the service news to see what’s new. A lot more new code was deployed than is apparent. We’re gearing up for some big announcements in April and May – expect to hear more in that timeframe. Overall this deployment went reasonably well. Much better than the issues we had late last fa...
You can download Team Explorer Everywhere 2013 Update 1 (version 12.0.1) from the Download Center or install the TFS plug-in for Eclipse from directly within your Eclipse IDE (update site URL: http://dl.microsoft.com/eclipse/tfs). Improvements in Update 1 include… Build support for Java projects in Git (and more) The VS Online service blog des...
***UPDATED*** June 2014 - The early adopter program ended in may and the data export capability described below expired on May 20th. I know this is the second time I am doing this but I believe it is the last. For a refresher for those who don’t remember what the early adopter program is, let me explain. We released the public preview of VS On...
Yesterday, we completed our sprint 60 deployment. With it comes two new features: Exporting test plans as HTML documents and a permission to control who can create new work item tags. You can read more about the new features on the service release notes here: http://www.visualstudio.com/news/2014-feb-10-vso. As you may know, since ~Oct, we’ve ...
