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Java Tools Challenge results
As I mentioned in a previous blog post, we are committed to making VS Team Services a great solution for all developers – for any application on any platform. 3 months ago we kicked off the Java Tools Challenge, sponsored by the Visual Studio Partner Program, and the Visual Studio Marketplace which was a longer term virtual hackathon designed to bring awareness to our Java solutions and engage the Java community to build working and published tools and apps. The Challenge was an opportunity for Java developers to explore the extensibility of Visual Studio Team Services as well as make use of some of our solution...
Team Foundation Server 2015 Update 3 RC is available
Today we released the release candidate for TFS 2015 Update 3. Update 3 is a modest release with only a few features and bug fixes for top reported issues. The features in TFS 2015 Update 3 include: We fixed a lot of bugs. About 140 in total. I spent about an hour curating the bug list and below are my results... I still have to go through the bugs in our Release Management and Test areas. If I don't get to that soon, I'll make sure we get them for our final Update 3 release. ***UPDATE June 8th *** I've added the rest of the bug fixes now. As you can see, there are quite a few. ...
Team Services Update – June 1
I'm a bit late this sprint - was a busy week last week. Last week we finished deploying our sprint 100 work. Yes, sprint 100. That means we've been doing a Scrum (or Scrum like) development process for 300 weeks. And for most of that time, actually releasing at the end of every sprint. Whew, that's over 5 and a half years. 100 sprints is a significant milestone. You can read about the updates in the Team Services release notes. There's quite a lot of new stuff but, among my favorite are: Brian
Video course: Continuous Delivery with the Windows Stack
Check out this new video course on automated deployments with Windows, Azure and Visual Studio by Marcel and Rene. I've known both of them for many years and have a great deal of respect for them. You can be sure it will be an awesome video with lots of good insights. Thanks, Brian
Visual Studio Team Services is available in Brazil
Today we launched our Team Services instance in our Azure data center located in Brazil. This adds to instances in the US, Europe, Australia and India. When you create a new account from https://visualstudio.com we default your Geo to the data center closest to you. Customers in South American countries will now notice that Brazil is the default selection. As always, you can override the selection by choosing any Geo from the list – Brazil is open to everyone.  If you have an existing Team Services account and you would like to move it to the new Brazil region, you can do that by contacting support. Next up, I ...
Team Services update – May 9
We are in the process of wrapping up the deployment of our sprint 99 deliverables. Â You can read the Team Services release notes here. There's a ton of new stuff in this sprint update but I'll just comment on a few. Â Let's start with one of the oldest surviving UserVoice items - a checkbox control. Â As you can see it was originally created in 2011. Â We've added the control but there's still some work to do. Â We've update the web UI to support it but the rich clients (like Team Explorer in Visual Studio) don't yet support it. Â That's coming. Â Aaron is going to be publishing a blog post on the ALM blog with details...
TFS 2015 Update 2.1 is available
We have released Team Foundation Server 2015 Update 2.1. The KB article has a full list of included bugs fixed (updated from the list I posted on my blog a couple of weeks ago). I haven't done a full cross reference but I listed 25 bug fixes in my post and the KB article includes 28 so I'm assuming we added 3 more fixes since my post. You can install Update 2.1 on top of Update 2 or upgrade directly to Update 2.1 from previous versions (Update 1, TFS 2015 RTM, TFS 2013 and any of its Updates, TFS 2012 and any of its Updates, TFS 2010). Localized versions of the KB article, etc. are in the works and shoul...
Update on TFS 2015 Update 2.1
Hmm, it's been a few days of reflection. I don't think I expected my post on the bugs we were fixing in Update 2.1 to generate so many comments about other bugs that people are hitting. Let me share some questions that have been on my mind and my thoughts on them... Why did I get so many bugs reported as comments on my blog? In the end, my blog isn't the place I want people reporting bugs. It's high cost for me (I'm just overhead because I route them to the right person to look at them). It's not a great experience for you - you don't have a great way to track updates. And it's not a great experience for our...
Team Services in India
Today, we opened up an instance of Visual Studio Team Services in India (Chennai). This builds on the instances we already have in the US, Europe and Australia and is the next step in our journey to making instances available all over the world. You can create an account in India by just choosing the India region during the Team Services account creation process. If you have an existing account that you want to move to the India region, you can contact support to have them do that for you. There are some things to think about when creating an account in the India region: 1) India is a relatively new region in A...