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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...

We had two serious availability incidents in the past 2 days.  I'm incredibly sorry for the problems that these have caused.  Increasingly we are bringing on more and more customers who rely on this service day in and day out and any significant interruption is entirely unacceptable.  We know it.  We live it.  We breath it and, in the last 2 day...

For months the team has been working on migrating our msdn blogs off of the "old" blogging system we used onto WordPress.  In the last few days, my blog was migrated and is now running on WordPress.  The system we had been using had gotten pretty out of date and clunky.  I haven't used WordPress a lot but it generally has a good reputation and I'm ...

This week we are deploying the changes from sprints 93 and 94 (they spanned Christmas/New Years so we combined them into a single deployment.  You can read the release notes for all the details.As usual, as I write this, the updates have not yet made it to all tenants but they will over the next day or two.This deployment has an unusually larg...