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Is Microsoft abandoning TFVC in favor of Git?

April 14, 2014 Apr 14, 2014 04/14/14
Brian Harry
No. This is an example of the power of social media.  I had planned to ignore it but I’ve had enough requests for “official confirmation” that I guess I have to say something :). Last week someone tweeted “Microsoft phasing out the TFS version control repository and moving to Git. Unofficially confirmed at a TFS ...

Visual Studio/Team Foundation Server Release Notes

April 3, 2014 Apr 3, 2014 04/3/14
Brian Harry
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...

TFS 2013.2 (Update 2) Released

April 2, 2014 Apr 2, 2014 04/2/14
Brian Harry
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.  ...

VS/TFS 2013.2 CTP 2 available

March 5, 2014 Mar 5, 2014 03/5/14
Brian Harry
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 (image) For TFS, at least, this is a “go-live” release, meaning you can ...

Team Explorer Everywhere 2013 Update 1 available

February 28, 2014 Feb 28, 2014 02/28/14
Brian Harry
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 ...

VS/TFS 2013.2 (Update 2) CTP Released

February 5, 2014 Feb 5, 2014 02/5/14
Brian Harry
Today, fast on the heels of Update 1, we released the first CTP of VS/TFS 2013 Update 2.  Although Update 1 was a pretty small release, Update 2 is much larger.  This CTP is *not* feature complete and it is *not* “go-live”.  It is an opportunity for you to get a peek at some of the things we are planning to release in Update 2.  The ...

SCOM Management Pack for TFS 2013 Available

February 5, 2014 Feb 5, 2014 02/5/14
Brian Harry
OK, that took much longer than it should have – way too much red tape for this, unfortunately, but the management pack for TFS 2013 is now available.  I’ve been getting emails, blog comments and other forms of queries for months asking about it and it’s finally here.  You can download it here: TFS 2013 management ...

Load Testing VSOnline/TFS

December 2, 2013 Dec 2, 2013 12/2/13
Brian Harry
Ed Glas, Bill Barnett and Jiange Sun published a detailed write up of their experiences load testing VSOnline/TFS.  It’s a good read because they go into a lot of the reasons for the things they do and also talk about things they’ve tried that didn’t work.  They’ve now moved almost all of their load testing to...

Visual Studio 2013 Demo VM available

November 26, 2013 Nov 26, 2013 11/26/13
Brian Harry
Brian Keller has released the RTM version of his incredibly useful demo VM.  He loads just about everything you could want to demo onto it and makes it easy to see how anything in VS or TFS works. Read more: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/briankel/archive/2013/08/02/visual-studio-2013-application-lifecycle-management-virtual-machine-and-hands-on...

SmartOffice4TFS

November 18, 2013 Nov 18, 2013 11/18/13
Brian Harry
A couple of weeks ago one of our great partners, eDev Technologies (makers of InteGREAT – an excellent formal requirements management tool for TFS), released a new set of tools called SmartOffice4TFS.  Whereas InteGREAT is a pretty comprehensive requirements suite, SmartOffice4TFS is intended for teams with a less formal process but who ...