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Today marks the 10th anniversary of the day we shipped the first version of TFS - TFS 2005.  It doesn't seem that long ago but we sure have come a long way.  The other day I recorded a Radio TFS interview with Martin Woodward and Greg Duncan.  Check it out if you are interested.  I have to admit I haven't listened to it.  I never listen to my own i...

We just completed our sprint 96 deployment and everyone should now have all the new capabilities.  You can read more about what's new in the VS Team Services Release notes.  This was a particularly plentiful sprint - with updates across most of the product - Agile planning, testing, Git, package management, gated checking support for TFVC in build....

This morning at EclipseCon, we announced that we are joining the Eclipse Foundation to further our goals of helping developers build applications regardless of the technology stack choices they make.  At the same time, we announced the new open source project for Team Explorer Everywhere to enable anyone to contribute to creating a great Eclipse ex...

Today we released release candidate 2 of TFS 2015 Update 2 and the release candidate of Visual Studio 2015 Update 2. As usual I'll mostly comment on TFS and TFS related features and let the VS blog cover broader VS topics. In RC1 of TFS, we already released a ton of new compelling capabilities - like: RC2 brings a bunch ...

HockeyApp is a fantastic tool for managing mobile devops.  It includes capabilities to publish apps to a select group of “beta testers”, to collect feedback from those testers and to gather and analyze crash reports.  It works incredibly well for iOS, Android and Windows UWP apps.  As of today, HockeyApp can also be purchased in the Visual Studio M...

Another good book recently hit the virtual shelves - this one on Continuous Deployment with TFS and VS Team Services.  The book covers both the principles and practices around continuous delivery, as well as hands on guidance.  Check it out... USA - http://www.amazon.com/Continuous-Delivery-Visual-Studio-2015/dp/1484212738 UK   - http://www.amazon....

One of our MVPs, Tarun Arora just published a book on TFS 2015.  It covers TFS up to TFS 2015 Update 2.  Check it out... http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1784391050. Brian

Today we released TFS 2015 Update 2 RC 1 and VS 2015 Update 2 CTP1.  I'm going to talk about TFS here and you can go to the Visual Studio blog to learn more about VS. This release of TFS is a "go-live" release candidate.  We will support customers choosing to install it in a production environment.  All the links you should need to learn about it a...

We are committed to making VS Team Services a great solution for all developers – for any application on any platform.  For several years now, we’ve had a concerted effort to build a great solution for Java developers with an Eclipse plugin, a cross platform command line, an IntelliJ plugin, a cross platform build agent and so much more.  We’ve als...

Please read my post from yesterday first.  Unfortunately I had a family commitment and had to leave early Friday afternoon before the post was complete.  I asked someone on my team to finish it and he did an excellent job and I'm grateful.  There are a few things I would yet like to add to the discussion. First I want to emphasize point #4 from th...