March 2017 | Brian Harry's Blog

Shutting down CodePlex

Brian Harry March 31, 2017 Mar 31, 2017 03/31/17

Almost 11 years after we created CodePlex, it’s time to say goodbye. We launched CodePlex in 2006 because we, like others in the industry, saw a need for a great place to share software. Over the years, we’ve seen a lot of amazing options come and go but at this point, GitHub is the de facto place for open source sharing and most open ...

Team Services Update – Mar 29 2017

Brian Harry March 30, 2017 Mar 30, 2017 03/30/17

This week we begin rolling out our sprint 115 work. You can read the release notes for details. As usual, this is a forewarning of the changes, it could take up to 2 weeks before all the changes are visible in your account. The update should go live in the first public accounts today. Overall, there's not any single thing that stands out...

Cows can be so silly

Brian Harry March 30, 2017 Mar 30, 2017 03/30/17

Last week, we had some visitors from Redmond visiting us in North Carolina. I invited a few of them out to my house for dinner - they were interested in seeing this farm that I talk about from time to time. After we got to my house I herded everyone into my car to drive up to the barn. As we got to the top of the hill, I could tell ...

Open sourcing the MSTest Test Framework

Brian Harry March 28, 2017 Mar 28, 2017 03/28/17

A couple of months ago I blogged about open sourcing the VS Test platform. In that post, I talked about the numerous test frameworks that it supports, on of the most popular ones being MSTest. I also foreshadowed our plan to also open source MSTest V2. Today I'm happy to announce that we have open sourced MSTest V2 under the MIT license...

TFS 2015 Update 4 Preview

Brian Harry March 14, 2017 Mar 14, 2017 03/14/17

I know this comes close on the heels of shipping TFS 2017 Update 1, but we are working on another Update to TFS 2015. For those who are up for it, I encourage you to upgrade to TFS 2017 Update 1, however, if there are reasons you really want to stay on 2015 a little longer, Update 4 might be useful to you. Update 4 only contains bug fixes...

Team Services Update – Mar 8, 2017

Brian Harry March 8, 2017 Mar 8, 2017 03/8/17

This week we are deploying our sprint 114 work. Check out the release notes to read the details. As usual, it will take a couple of weeks for the changes to roll out across all accounts. Here's a CliffsNotes version of some of the highlights of this sprint: I hope you enjoy the new improvements and I look forward to hearing ...

Team Foundation Server 2017 Update 1 Available

Brian Harry March 8, 2017 Mar 8, 2017 03/8/17

Sorry, I had a farm day yesterday and am a little late on the announcement... Yesterday we announced the release of both Visual Studio 2017 and TFS 2017 Update 1. I'll focus on TFS and you can read Julia's post on VS. ***UPDATE Mar 9*** The problems with upgrades from TFS versions before TFS 2015 have been fixed and the ...

Team Services/TFS Roadmap update

Brian Harry March 6, 2017 Mar 6, 2017 03/6/17

Last week, we published an update to our roadmap (otherwise known as "Features timeline" :)). If you're curious about what we are working on and when it is coming, I encourage you to go check it out. This timeline is intended to give a rough idea what we are planning to deliver in the cloud over the next 6 months and when those things will ...

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