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New Azure Portal Overview
Brian Keller did a very nice blog post on how you can use the new Azure portal to create a super cool devops dashboard: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/briankel/archive/2014/04/10/building-your-dream-devops-dashboard-with-the-new-azure-preview-portal.aspxBrian
Visual Studio Online Integration in the Azure portal
Today, at Build, we unveiled a new Azure Portal experience we are building. I want to give you some insights into the work that VS Online team is doing to help with it. I’m not on the Azure team and am no expert on how they’d like to describe to the world, so please take any comments I make here about the new Azure portal as my perspective on it and not necessarily an official one. Bill Staples first presented to me almost a year ago an idea of creating a new portal experience for Azure designed to be an optimal experience for DevOps. It would provide everything a DevOps team needs to do modern cloud based ...
Visual Studio Online “General Availability”
Today is a monumental day for VS Online. It’s the culmination of a long journey from a glimmer of an idea to prototype, private preview, limited preview, public preview, “go-live” and now, finally General Availability. VS Online is ready and open for business. I’ve written a fair amount about the transition in the service release notes getting posted today so I don’t want to repeat all of that. Read them and if you have questions, please feel free to ask. I want to take a few minutes to reflect on something else. It’s been really amazing to watch the gro...
Visual Studio/Team Foundation Server Release Notes
For well over a year now, we’ve been posting release notes for Visual Studio Online roughly every 3 weeks describing the enhancements we deploy each sprint. In our last redesign of the visualstudio.com site, we added a similar news feed for the on-premises products but haven’t updated it very often or provided a ton of detail. Starting with VS 2013 Update 2, we are going to try out publishing VS & TFS release notes on that news feed, providing you one place to go to keep up with the latest capabilities both in Visual Studio and Visual Studio Online. Check out the VS 2013 Update 2 relea...
TFS 2013.2 (Update 2) Released
And VS 2013.2 RC released… OK, this is weird, I admit, so I’ll explain. Today we officially released the final version of TFS 2013 Update 2 and we released a Release Candidate of Visual Studio 2013 Update 2. It’s weird that we RTMed TFS Update to but only RCed VS Update 2. We generally work hard to RTM them at the same time. This time we couldn’t. The reason had to do with some hard dates with regard to VS Online and on-premises TFS compatibility with it. If you read my blog, then you likely know that we are approaching the end of the Early Adopter program and transition to standard commercial terms. ...
Visual Studio Online Update – Mar 18th
Wow, this post is late. It’s been a pretty tough month for me personally. Probably the highlight was an ice storm that hit central North Carolina and crushed us. My house was without power for 4 days. The whole area looked like a war zone. There were trees down everywhere. Roads were impassable. It took me 2 days just to clear my driveway so we could get cars in and out. I took off an entire week plus to work on clean up. I’ve logged more hours with a chainsaw in the past month than, I think, most people do in a lifetime. Even now, I&r...
VS/TFS 2013.2 CTP 2 available
Last week we released the next CTP for VS 2013.2 and TFS 2013.2 (aka Update 2). Unfortunately, I was unable to find the time to blog about it because I was in Europe speaking at a conference and visiting customers. So, I’m correcting the error now For TFS, at least, this is a “go-live” release, meaning you can get support and we will enable upgrades from this CTP to the final RTM. In fact this TFS CTP is actually labeled a Release Candidate (RC). It’s a bit weird to have a CTP of VS and an RC of TFS but there are some good reasons for it having to do with the staging of this TFS update, the Gene...
Visual Studio Online Update – Feb 28
Today we finished the deployment for sprint 61. You can read the service news to see what’s new. A lot more new code was deployed than is apparent. We’re gearing up for some big announcements in April and May – expect to hear more in that timeframe. Overall this deployment went reasonably well. Much better than the issues we had late last fall but not quite as well as last sprint. Overall we’re on the right track and I think it will keep getting better and better. And, if you have an early adoption account, you should see that the extension I described last week is now effective. Here’s mine, as of to...
Team Explorer Everywhere 2013 Update 1 available
You can download Team Explorer Everywhere 2013 Update 1 (version 12.0.1) from the Download Center or install the TFS plug-in for Eclipse from directly within your Eclipse IDE (update site URL: http://dl.microsoft.com/eclipse/tfs). Improvements in Update 1 include… Build support for Java projects in Git (and more) The VS Online service blog describes new capabilities we just delivered on the service for building Java projects managed in Git. TEE Update 1 provides the client tools necessary to utilize these new features. Here is a summary of what is now possible on the service when using TEE Update 1: ...