Brian Harry's Blog

Work Item Tracking Enhancements in the Aug Rosario CTP

August 6, 2007 Aug 6, 2007 08/6/07

Brian Harry

Perhaps, over the week end, a few of you have had a chance to play around with the Aug CTP of the Rosario release of Visual Studio Team System.  This post is to give you a little bit of insight into some of the new things you can do with work item tracking. One of our primary focuses for this release is what we call "Business Alignment".&...

Updated GAT/GAX released

August 5, 2007 Aug 5, 2007 08/5/07

Brian Harry

This is a great example of what we can accomplish together by partnering.  The original plan for GAT and GAX was to wait and update them with VS 2008 releases later this year.  After Beta 1, you gave feedback that these were very important to some of you to enable evaluating the betas.  We went back to the team and ...

Rosario August CTP Released!

August 4, 2007 Aug 4, 2007 08/4/07

Brian Harry

Today we released the first CTP release for the Rosario version of Microsoft Visual Studio Team System.  You can download the VPC to try it our here.  You can read more detail about it here. As you'll recall from previous postings, our 2 "pillars" for Rosario are "Testing & Application Quality" and "Business Alignment".  ...

SourceSafe 2005 Update CTP Available

August 2, 2007 Aug 2, 2007 08/2/07

Brian Harry

Along with the VS2008 wave of products, we are providing an update to Visual SourceSafe 2005 called a GDR.  GDR stands for something like General Distribution Release and it is very much like a service pack.  The differences are subtle and I won't try to explain them right now.  This GDR contains over 57 fixes and includes all ...

Team System Web Access Overview

August 1, 2007 Aug 1, 2007 08/1/07

Brian Harry

Someone asked me to publish a brief write up VSTS Web Access along with screen shots.  It seemed like a good idea, so here you go... VSTS Web Access is a Web UI to a portion of the Team Foundation Server functionality.  Over time I expect it to grow beyond what we think of as TFS today.  It serves a few purposes: VSTS Web ...

Improvements for testing in VSTS 2008

August 1, 2007 Aug 1, 2007 08/1/07

Brian Harry

Compared to our VSTS 2005 release, the 2008 release is a fairly modest release.  Mostly it's filling gaps in the offering and adding in a few nice new features.  However, I think the improvements we've made in testing are are under appreciated.  IMHO, we really did some great work to improve testing.  These include major ...

TechEd South Africa

August 1, 2007 Aug 1, 2007 08/1/07

Brian Harry

For that subset of you for whom it is relevant, It looks like I'm going to be at TechEd South Africa this year.  It's October 21st to the 24th.  I'm still finalizing plans but expect to be doing a couple of talks on TFS and VSTS.  I've never been to the African continent before and am really looking forward to seeing it.  ...

Team System Web Access Power Tool Available!

July 30, 2007 Jul 30, 2007 07/30/07

Brian Harry

Today we released the first "official" power tool release of Team System Web Access.  You can download it from here.   Let me put this in context.  When Microsoft first acquired DevBiz, we provided v1.0 of TeamPlain for download.  Based on customer demand, we uploaded a preview of TeamPlain 2.0.  ...

More VSTS chats coming

July 30, 2007 Jul 30, 2007 07/30/07

Brian Harry

With Beta 2 out the door now, we are having a new set of MSDN chats to talk about what's new and what's coming.  Please join the product team!  Following our recent tradition, we'll be having 2 chats at different times to accomodate people in different parts of the world. Join the chat on Wednesday, August 1st, 2007 from 10:00am - 11...

Help installing VS 2008 Beta 2

July 30, 2007 Jul 30, 2007 07/30/07

Brian Harry

I suspect many of you will be trying to install VS 2008 Beta 2 in the near future.  If you run into any problems, you can go to the following MSDN forums to look for help.  The setup team has committed to monitoring them closely as people get over the hump of getting it installed. Visual Studio Orcas Install and Setup http://forums....