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The first Visual Studio “14” CTP
Today we released the first Visual Studio “V.Next” Community Technology Preview. You can read more about it on Soma’s blog post. Don’t confuse this with my announcement of the VS 2013 Update 3 CTP that I announced 4 days ago. We are doing development on the next major version of Visual Studio in parallel with Updates to Visual Studio 2013. You can expect to see continued Update and V.Next releases in the next several months. For the TFS community, I want to explain that we did NOT ship a CTP of Team Foundation Server V.Next at this time. Because we can deliver...
Visual Studio/Team Foundation Server 2013 Update 3 CTP1 (VS 2013.3.1 if you wish)
Better late than never, I guess. Sorry for being so late blogging about this; it’s been a crazy week. About a week ago we announced the availability of Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 – Community Technology Preview 1. That's a mouthful. Just a bit of orientation. This is a VERY early preview of Update 3 – heck, we just shipped Update 2 at TechEd about 2 weeks ago. It is not intended for use in production environments. I’m not expecting everyone to run out an install it but, if you are really interested in what’s in it, it’s a good opportunity to track the progress. We will likely be shipping a few CTPs before...
Wookiki – A Windows store app for keeping an eye on builds on VS Online
Check out Wookiki… It’s a Windows 8.1 store app for keeping up to date on build statuses on Visual Studio Online – it has push notifications, live tiles and more. A previous version had been built with the OData solution for TFS that Brian Keller put together a couple of years ago. Now it’s been ported to work with the new Open APIs that we announced earlier this month. Here’s a short video of the previous version if you want to see what it does. Brian
Real time collaboration with VS Anywhere
The VS Anywhere guys have been continuing to improve their real time developer collaboration capabilities by adding a web experience along side their VS add-in. They’ve also taken advantage of our new VS Online Open APIs to do so cool VS Online integration. They’ll be doing a web cast on it in a couple of weeks and I encourage you to check it out. Session title Interactive Code Reviews with Visual Studio Online and VS Anywhere · Date: Thursday, June 12th, 10:00am PST · Registration link: https://aka.ms/VIS44PALReg · Description: When a software devel...
Visual Studio Online Update – May 20th
This week we are deploying our sprint 65 work. You can read the release notes here: http://www.visualstudio.com/news/2014-may-20-vso The really big news is that we’ve completed the next step in the journey to fully supporting Active Directory integration through Azure Active Directory. You can now create a new VS Online account through any of the paths we offer and connect the new account to Azure Active Directory in the process. The news post has a bunch more detail, tutorials, etc. This has been one of the top service requests for a while now. In fact, there are two highly voted Uservoic...
Useful stuff on the VS Online Open APIs
I’m just sharing interesting stuff I run across that relates to the new open apis for VS Online that we announced. Here’s a blog post someone wrote on configuring and using UserVoice with VS Online: http://roadtoalm.com/2014/05/15/integrate-uservoice-with-visual-studio-online-using-servicehooks/ Clemens, one of our MVPs, wrote a post about a tool his Sogeti team wrote to give visibility into resources his team is consuming. It includes both Azure resources (like running VMs) and VS Online resources (like cloud builds): http://www.clemensreijnen.nl/post/2014/05/12/Integrate-Azure-Visual-Studio-On...
Tasktop: Another tool in your toolbox for integrating VSOnline/TFS
For many years now Tasktop has been bridging the divide among various systems for tracking work/tasks. This week they announced some new support for Visual Studio Online along with our new open API announcements. Check out this blog post they wrote on what they can do: http://tasktop.com/blog/news/tasktop-sync-integrates-visual-studio-online-with-popular-devops-tools Brian
Migrating On Premises TFS to VS Online
One of the questions I’ve frequently gotten from customers considering Visual Studio Online is “How do I migrate my on-premises TFS data to VS Online?” Until now that’s been a tough one to answer. In general you’ve had to cobble together a solution by checking in the latest version of your source code, maybe using Excel to ferry across the latest version of most of your work item fields, etc. In short, I’ve generally told people – Use VS Online for new projects. The one exception is that, because Git is a distributed version control system, you can add a...
Zendesk integration with VS Online
Yesterday, I announced a new set of open APIs for VS Online and a bunch of integrations that have already been built. One of them was support for Zendesk. Here’s a very detailed blog post on how to install/configure it: http://www.bfcamara.com/post/85562983333/vso-zendesk-integration Brian