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VS/TFS 2012.2 (Update 2) released today
Today, we released our second update to Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server 2012. You can read a fairly detailed post with all the new capabilities on the ALM blog. There’s a ton of new value in the in this update as evidenced by the long list of new features in that post. Roughly speaking, Update 2 is about the same size as Update 1 was (in terms of numbers of new features). Many of the features have been aired before in our CTP posts. But there are a couple of things about the TFS update that I want to highlight. TFS 2010 Build controller/agent compat – We’ve recei...
BUILD 2013 has been announced
http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_blog/archive/2013/03/26/announcing-build-2013.aspxBrian
Team Foundation Service Update–Mar 22
Today, we released the results of Sprint 45 on Team Foundation Service. You can check out the release notes to learn more about today’s release. There were 2 basic areas of new capabilities on the service: Git Branch insights and Web based test execution UI. Both are nice improvements in usability and experience. You might notice that we’re releasing this on a Friday and we “always” do our service releases on Mondays. This is an unusual one. Last sprint I mentioned that we are making some big infrastructural changes and that these changes are going to require ...
Are you missing a cow?
Saturday night I was at my son’s lacrosse game with the family. My wife got a phone call. It was a fellow farmer and neighbor, Noah (about 2 miles south of us). His question was “Are you missing a cow?” The answer, of course, was we didn’t know. Even if we had been home, counting ~100 cows turns out to be a lot harder than you’d think – the dang things just won’t stay still. It turns out Noah had seen a stray black cow with no distinctive markings. So I had to leave the lacrosse game to go home and see what was up. By the time I got home it was dark. I stopped by Noah’s house and learned that he had la...
Git extension for VS 2012 Update 2 CTP4
A couple of days ago I announced the availability of VS/TFS 2012.2 CTP4. At that time I mentioned that there would be an update of our Visual Studio Git extensions to work with it. We released the Git extension update last night and you can read more about it in Matt’s and Andy’s blog post. We continue to push forward with additional Git functionality as quickly as we can. The biggest advance in this release is a new merge experience. Check it out and give us feedback.Brian
CTP4 (March) of VS/TFS 2012 Update 2 is available
We are continuing our journey to deliver a final release of Update 2. You can read about the CTP3 we shipped a few weeks ago here. The most notable thing about this CTP is that it is “go-live”. One of our big learnings from shipping Update 1 was that we really do need feedback from real customer deployments before we ship a major update. We provided a “go-live” build to a select set of early adopters in the last CTP and got some great feedback. In that process we found 3 or 4 significant bugs and fixed them for this CTP. We now need a bunch more people t...
Team Foundation Service Update – Mar 4
Sprint 44 is done and has now been deployed to the service. You can read the release notes on the Team Foundation Service Portal to learn more about what’s in it. Maybe the biggest news is that the customizable swim lanes for kanban are live on the service now. Over all though, it was a sprint of just moving the ball forward on many fronts – improve test case execution, version control annotate/blame, scheduled builds for Git, etc. No real big news – just everything a bit better. It’ll probably continue to be that way for a few sprints as we pull together our ...
Bad day
Clearly yesterday was a bad day. Team Foundation Service was mostly down for approximately 9 hours. The underlying issue was an expired SSL certificate in Windows Azure storage. We use HTTPS to access Windows Azure storage, where we store source code files, Git repos, work item attachments and more. The expired certificate prevented access to any of this information, making much of the TFService functionality unavailable. We were watching the issue very closely, were on the support bridge continuously and were investigating options to mitigate the outage. Unfortunately we were not su...
Professional Team Foundation Server 2012
Grant Holliday and friends just put out a new version of their excellent TFS book, now updated for TFS 2012. It’s worth having if you are really trying to understand the ins and outs of TFS. Learn more on Grant’s blog.Brian