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VS Online/TFS Feature timeline – the UserVoice version

VS Online/TFS Feature timeline – the UserVoice version

Brian HarryAugust 28, 2015Aug 28, 201508/28/15

As a follow up to my post yesterday on the Feature timeline refresh, I took a few minutes this morning to walk through our UserVoice site and summarize how the work we are planning over the next several months relates. This is a different granularity cut (because it’s based on UV suggestions) that what I published yesterday. I’m not

Features timeline refresh

Features timeline refresh

Brian HarryAugust 27, 2015Aug 27, 201508/27/15

With the TFS 2015 release behind us and a lot of planning for our next phase of work completed, it’s time to do a major refresh of our Visual Studio Online Features Timeline. If you aren’t familiar with this page, I encourage you to check it out. It not only gives you a peek ahead to things we’re working on, it al

VS 2012 Update 5 has been released

VS 2012 Update 5 has been released

Brian HarryAugust 27, 2015Aug 27, 201508/27/15

This week we released the final build of VS 2012 Update 5. You can get it on the Visual Studio downloads page. There are only a few changes in it. You can find them in the VS 2012 Update 5 KB article.Brian

TFS 2015 Installation guidance

TFS 2015 Installation guidance

Brian HarryAugust 27, 2015Aug 27, 201508/27/15

At least once or twice a week, I’m getting questions about where the TFS 2015 installation guidance is. We’re not doing well with search engines on that apparently. We’re going to see if we can do better but, in the mean time, here’s the link just in case you stumble across my blog :)Installing Team Foundati

TFS 2015 Power Tools are available

TFS 2015 Power Tools are available

Brian HarryAugust 27, 2015Aug 27, 201508/27/15

Today we released the TFS 2015 Power Tools that accompany VS 2015 and TFS 2015. The landing page that link points to includes lots of info about compatibility, changes, etc.Sorry it took a bit longer to get these out than we expected.Brian

Visual Studio Online Update – Aug 26th

Visual Studio Online Update – Aug 26th

Brian HarryAugust 27, 2015Aug 27, 201508/27/15

This week we are rolling out our sprint 87 work. Nothing earth shattering this sprint but some nice project management improvements. Also we’ve added first class SonarQube support now with custom tasks for executing SonarQube and publishing the results for your build. You can read more on this week’s VSO release n

SmartOffice4TFS and inteGREAT4TFS available for Visual Studio Enterprise with MSDN subscribers

SmartOffice4TFS and inteGREAT4TFS available for Visual Studio Enterprise with MSDN subscribers

Brian HarryAugust 12, 2015Aug 12, 201508/12/15

Managing requirements is an incredibly important part of the software development process for everyone. Different teams approach the problem very differently – from very lightweight/informal ways to very formal and documented ways. The needs of your business and the culture of your organization will determine what’s rig

Visual Studio Online Update – Aug 7th

Visual Studio Online Update – Aug 7th

Brian HarryAugust 10, 2015Aug 10, 201508/10/15

This week we are rolling out our Sprint 86 work. You can read details on the VSO release notes. Included is the next set of work to improve our Agile planning experiences and availability of a NuGet package for our TFS/VSO SDK. The NuGet package is a big step forward in making it easier to work with. You no longer have

Team Foundation Server 2015 Final Release

Team Foundation Server 2015 Final Release

Brian HarryAugust 6, 2015Aug 6, 201508/6/15

Today we released the final version of Team Foundation Server 2015. TFS 2015 is a major step forward, with tons of improvements throughout the development process but with special emphasis on DevOps capabilities. Here are all of the TFS 2015 related downloads. Look under Visual Studio 2015 for things like Test Professional, un