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10th anniversary of Team Foundation Server
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 interviews - it just feels creepy :) I sure had a lot of fun doing it though. Brian
VS Team Services Update – March 3
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.vnext, IntelliJ, and release management. Certainly the gated checkin support was very highly requested and it's great to see that go live. Get test results integration into release management is really nice. Squash merge on pull requests has also been a hot item with ...
Microsoft joins the Eclipse Foundation
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 experience for Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio Team Services. Read more about it in Peter Bright's article. This adds to a great deal of engagement already with the OSS community, including: our numerous Application Insights SDKs, our IntelliJ plugin for TFS and...
TFS 2015 RC2 and VS 2015 Update 2 RC are available
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 more new stuff, including: Lots of good stuff. Of course, we also took all the feedback we got from RC1 and fixed all the bugs - thank you for all of the bug reports. Like RC1, this is a go-live release. You can upgrade directly to it from any p...
HockeyApp available through the Visual Studio marketplace
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 Marketplace via and Azure subscription. HockeyApp also has a free plan to get started with a few apps. I encourage you to check it out. Brian
Book on Continuous Deployment
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.co.uk/gp/product/1484212738 Brian
A new book on Team Foundation Server 2015
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
Team Foundation Server 2015 Update 2 RC 1 is available
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 and get it are here: Most of the features labeled Update 2 and described on our Features timeline are in this release. The one feature that we thought was going to be in Update 2 but I now know will not make it is SSH support for Git. We know that's a very hi...
Visual Studio Team Services Java Tools Challenge
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 also been working hard to integrate popular Java tools like Maven, JUnit test results importing, JaCoCo and Cobertura, SonarQube and the list goes on. With the recent introduction of our Visual Studio Marketplace we are reemphasizing how open and extensible VSTS is and how...