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VS Online Update – Sept 18
Sorry for being so late on this one. The last couple of weeks have been very hectic for me and I’ve mostly had to ignore my blog.Last week we finished rolling out our sprint 88 work. You can read about the details in the VS Online release notes.As has become the pattern over the past 6 months, this sprint, we rolled out a bunch more improvements to our Agile planning tools. The cards became even richer with on card sub-tasks. Queryability of kanban column metadata and more.Sprint 89 is already right around the corner. Stay tuned for info on the next round of updates in about a ...
September pricing and licensing changes
I want to update you all on the pricing and licensing changes we’ve been working on over the past year.VS Online Basic usersThe new, less expensive, tiered pricing model I announced a couple of months ago goes into effect Sept 1st (today). In addition, we are finalizing the licensing documents to include an on-prem TFS CAL with your VS Online purchases, making it easy for you to use on-prem, cloud or both. That will also go into effect in Sept.A changing philosophyBefore I explain some other changes that are coming, let me step back for a minute and talk about how we are changing the way we thin...
VS Online/TFS Feature timeline – the UserVoice version
As a follow up to my post yesterday on the Feature timeline refresh, I took a few minutes this morning to walk through our UserVoice site and summarize how the work we are planning over the next several months relates. This is a different granularity cut (because it’s based on UV suggestions) that what I published yesterday. I’m not promising that I caught every single one. And I’m not promising that everyone I’ve listed here will get done this fall (my crystal ball isn’t perfect). But, based on what I know now, this is a pretty good approximation of the plan. I stopped when I got down to UV items with les...
Features timeline refresh
With the TFS 2015 release behind us and a lot of planning for our next phase of work completed, it’s time to do a major refresh of our Visual Studio Online Features Timeline. If you aren’t familiar with this page, I encourage you to check it out. It not only gives you a peek ahead to things we’re working on, it also contains a log of the work we deliver every sprint. Lastly, it roughly maps when the VS Online features show up in an on-premises TFS release.A little commentary on this update… Hopefully you find this useful. Let me know if you have ques...
VS 2012 Update 5 has been released
This week we released the final build of VS 2012 Update 5. You can get it on the Visual Studio downloads page. There are only a few changes in it. You can find them in the VS 2012 Update 5 KB article.Brian
TFS 2015 Installation guidance
At least once or twice a week, I’m getting questions about where the TFS 2015 installation guidance is. We’re not doing well with search engines on that apparently. We’re going to see if we can do better but, in the mean time, here’s the link just in case you stumble across my blog :)Installing Team Foundation Server 2015Brian
TFS 2015 Power Tools are available
Today we released the TFS 2015 Power Tools that accompany VS 2015 and TFS 2015. The landing page that link points to includes lots of info about compatibility, changes, etc.Sorry it took a bit longer to get these out than we expected.Brian
Visual Studio Online Update – Aug 26th
This week we are rolling out our sprint 87 work. Nothing earth shattering this sprint but some nice project management improvements. Also we’ve added first class SonarQube support now with custom tasks for executing SonarQube and publishing the results for your build. You can read more on this week’s VSO release notes.Brian
SmartOffice4TFS and inteGREAT4TFS available for Visual Studio Enterprise with MSDN subscribers
Managing requirements is an incredibly important part of the software development process for everyone. Different teams approach the problem very differently – from very lightweight/informal ways to very formal and documented ways. The needs of your business and the culture of your organization will determine what’s right for you.For years, we’ve worked with partners to provide great requirements management capabilities for Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio Online. eDevTech provides a suite of tools that provide solutions spanning from relatively informal ways of managin...