Sorry for being so late on this one. The last couple of weeks have been very hectic for me and I’ve mostly had to ignore my blog.Last week we finished rolling out our sprint 88 work. You can read about the details in the VS Online release notes.As has become the pattern over the past 6 months, this sprint, we rolled out a bunch mo...
I want to update you all on the pricing and licensing changes we’ve been working on over the past year.VS Online Basic usersThe new, less expensive, tiered pricing model I announced a couple of months ago goes into effect Sept 1st (today). In addition, we are finalizing the licensing documents to include an on-prem TFS CAL with your VS ...
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 promising t...
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 also co...
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
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 Foundation Se...
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
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 notes....
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 right fo...
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 to me...
