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Visual Studio 2015 and Visual Studio 2013 Update 5 Released

July 20, 2015 Jul 20, 2015 07/20/15

Brian Harry

Today, we released Visual Studio 2015, .NET 4.6, Visual Studio 2013 Update 5 and Team Foundation Server 2013 Update 5.  As I announced in a post a few weeks ago, Team Foundation Server 2015 is going to take just a bit longer (more on this in a minute), but you can get RC2 now if you like and it will work just fine with VS 2015 (and other ...

Visual Studio Online Update – July 17

July 20, 2015 Jul 20, 2015 07/20/15

Brian Harry

I told you a week or so ago it would come quickly :)  We’re deploying our Sprint 85 work now.  As always, it will take a few days for it to make it across the entirety of the service. You can find the details on the new capabilities in the release notes. I think you’ll be pleased to see a whole bunch of new Agile planning ...

Update on Team Foundation Server RC2

July 13, 2015 Jul 13, 2015 07/13/15

Brian Harry

I wrote a post about a week ago announcing TFS 2015 RC2.  Today, we released downloads for the rest of the languages, along with release notes.  All the information in my previous post is still accurate and the links all point to the updated downloads.   Brian...

TFS 2015 Compatibility

July 13, 2015 Jul 13, 2015 07/13/15

Brian Harry

As the release of TFS 2015 has approached, I’ve gotten a lot of compatibility questions.  We were a little slow documenting the story but we have it now: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/Library/vs/alm/TFS/administer/requirements The short story is the TFS 2015 compat matrix is about the same at the TFS 2013 one was – we didn&...

Visual Studio Online Update – July 7

July 13, 2015 Jul 13, 2015 07/13/15

Brian Harry

I’m a bit late on this post.  It’s been a busy week of travel. Last week we began deploying our sprint 84 release.  Because of the logistics around finalizing our TFS 2015 release, it was delayed a bit.  Sprint 83 is actually the last sprint that went into TFS 2015 RTM and we wanted to keep it live on the service ...

Team Foundation Server 2015 RC2 available

July 7, 2015 Jul 7, 2015 07/7/15

Brian Harry

Today we released Release Candidate 2 of Team Foundation Server 2015.  I believe this release is VERY close to the final bits we will ship.  I’d encourage people to try out upgrades on production backups, pre-production environments and, production environments.  We will support you regardless of the path you choose. ...

Team Explorer Everywhere 2015 RTM

July 6, 2015 Jul 6, 2015 07/6/15

Brian Harry

We have released Team Explorer Everywhere 2015.  It’s available on the Download Center and on the Eclipse Marketplace.  Soma announced that VS 2015 will release on July 20th so stay tuned. This isn’t a particularly big release but it has some very welcome enhancements: Build.vnext and Team Project Rename are, ...

Team Foundation Server and VS Online adoption at Microsoft

June 3, 2015 Jun 3, 2015 06/3/15

Brian Harry

Someone asked me in a blog comment recently to post an update on internal adoption – the last one was almost a year ago.  I’m going to keep it reasonably short. The best summary is adoption continues to grow.  TFS on-prem is growing slowly because it’s already huge.  VS Online usage is growing more rapidly but is still far smaller ...

Visual Studio Online Update – June 3rd

June 2, 2015 Jun 2, 2015 06/2/15

Brian Harry

***PLEASE READ*** Ahh, my fortune for “delayed publish” in Live Writer.  I was trying to grab screenshots for this and accidentally hit publish a day too early.  The release notes won’t be published until tomorrow (June 3rd).  I’m sorry for the inconvenience but with the number of people who get email notifications of my blog post, ...

Visual Studio Online Update – May 15th

May 15, 2015 May 15, 2015 05/15/15

Brian Harry

This week we are deploying our sprint 82 work for VS Online.  This is a very BIG deployment – lot’s of stuff.  You can read the release notes. First and foremost Build.VNext is here!  It is now in Public Preview and everyone can try it.  We also now have a hosted build pool so you don’t have to install a ...