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Is your stomach bigger than your eyes?

December 23, 2015 Dec 23, 2015 12/23/15
Brian Harry
For the past several months, friends have been bugging me to write another farm post – it’s been quite a while.  The problem is that I haven’t been able to think of anything terribly interesting.  Most farm work does make for a good blog post – chores, feeding, cutting hay, repairing fences, …  Just not great content ...

VS 2015 Update 1 and TFS 2015 Update 1 are available

November 30, 2015 Nov 30, 2015 11/30/15
Brian Harry
Today we shipped the final releases of Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 and Team Foundation Server 2015 Update 1. Here are the release notes: There were very few changes between the last release candidates and this final release – just a hand full of bug fixes.  Check out the release notes for all the new stuff in this update...

News from Connect(); 2015

November 18, 2015 Nov 18, 2015 11/18/15
Brian Harry
Today is our annual Fall developer Connect(); event in New York.  I’m here talking about a ton of new stuff that we’re doing to help developers adopt agile DevOps practices.  Normally I would write a detailed post with screenshots and descriptions highlighting the news.  However, this time, I’m going to take a ...

VS 2015 Update 1 RC & TFS 2015 Update 1 RC2 Released

November 3, 2015 Nov 3, 2015 11/3/15
Brian Harry
We just released our final “pre-release” of Update 1 for Team Foundation Server 2015 and Visual Studio 2015.  Lots of useful links are available here: You’ll find the installation links at the top of the release notes pages.As I was looking over things (and finding a few issues with the release notes page...

Visual Studio Online Update – Oct 30

November 3, 2015 Nov 3, 2015 11/3/15
Brian Harry
As usual, you can read the release notes for this update on visualstudio.com. One of the most popular improvements released this sprint are our new dashboards.  We’ve been dogfooding them internally for a few sprints now and some of my feature teams have put together some very nice dashboards.  There are a number of tile types to ...

TFS Office Integration Installer

October 15, 2015 Oct 15, 2015 10/15/15
Brian Harry
One of the things I forgot to mention in my post about TFS 2015 Update 1 RC is that we have also shipped a preview of our new TFS Office Integration Installer (ISO image).  This new installer addresses a couple of scenarios: The PowerPoint storyboarding tool is a really nice way to mock up user experiences quickly and easily.  You can...

Visual Studio Online Update – Oct 8th

October 14, 2015 Oct 14, 2015 10/14/15
Brian Harry
Another post I missed last week was an announcement about our sprint 89 deployment for VS Online.  You can read the release notes for details.Probably the biggest thing is support for Active Directory group support for managing permissions.  This as been a very common request from our larger customers in VSO so they don’t need ...

Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server 2015 Update 1 pre-release available

October 14, 2015 Oct 14, 2015 10/14/15
Brian Harry
I’m a bit late to this party because we released them about a week ago.  I generally try to sync my blog posts but we had a death in the family last week and I just didn’t have the time to deal with blogging.The Visual Studio preview is named “CTP 1” and you can read more about it here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/...