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Launching Visual Studio 2013

November 13, 2013 Nov 13, 2013 11/13/13
Brian Harry
Today, I am in New York at the launch of Visual Studio 2013 speaking with a local audience and broadcasting around the world.  In many ways it’s a celebration of the blood, sweat and tears we put into VS 2013.  At the same time, it’s a bit anti-climactic because VS 2013 has been in preview for months and released for weeks.  For me, ...

TFS Git support for Continuous Delivery to Azure Web Sites and Services

November 7, 2013 Nov 7, 2013 11/7/13
Brian Harry
A little over a year ago we unveiled a continuous delivery feature for TFS –> Azure, allowing you to configure the TFS build pipeline to automatically deploy to running Azure applications.  In the intervening time, we added Git support to TFS but getting Git integrated into all of our scenarios is a journey.  This week we ...

Team Explorer Everywhere 2013 is Available

November 3, 2013 Nov 3, 2013 11/3/13
Brian Harry
Among the deluge of Visual Studio 2013 releases in October, we shipped the 2013 release of Team Explorer Everywhere – updating the experience for team members working in Eclipse and/or on non-Windows environments.  Team Explorer Everywhere includes an Eclipse plug-in, a cross-platform command line client, and a Java SDK for building custom ...

Team Rooms in Visual Studio

October 26, 2013 Oct 26, 2013 10/26/13
Brian Harry
In TFS 2013, we introduced a new feature called “Team Rooms” that keep a record of things that happen in your team – checkins, work item updates, build failures, code reviews, etc.  And you can have conversations about the activity directly in the team room.  This keeps a durable record of what’s happening in the team and makes it ...

Running a high scale TFS server

October 8, 2013 Oct 8, 2013 10/8/13
Brian Harry
Grant Holliday, recently wrote a post on managing TFS servers.  Grant has a colorful history.  I first met him when he joined the Team Foundation Server MVP program.  He was so knowledgeable and helpful that I eventually offered him a position on my team to help us manage internal adoption of TFS (over 45,000 people today). ...

VS 2012.4 and TFS 2012.4 RC 4 is available

October 8, 2013 Oct 8, 2013 10/8/13
Brian Harry
Yesterday we released the final release candidate for Update 4 for VS 2012 and TFS 2012. We’re on track to release the final versions in a month or so.  I encourage you to try them out and let us know if there are any last minute issues we need to fix.  One thing to keep in mind – If you install TFS 2012.4 RC4, ...

TFS 2013 Power Tools are available

September 22, 2013 Sep 22, 2013 09/22/13
Brian Harry
I apologize for the long wait.  But, the TFS 2013 Power Tools are finally available.  There’s no new features in this release but there are a fair number of bug fixes and the Power Tools have all been updated to work with VS 2013 and TFS 2013.  Also, the version checking has been changed so that these Power Tools will also...

What is a Product Owner?

September 22, 2013 Sep 22, 2013 09/22/13
Brian Harry
Adam Cogan, one of our TFS MVPs, had his company put together a short animated video on the role of the product owner.  I thought it was pretty cool so I figured I’d share it.  It’s only a few minutes.  It’s worth checking out… http://tv.ssw.com/what-is-a-product-owner   Brian...

Visual Studio 2012 tools for Git (0.9.5.0) are available

July 29, 2013 Jul 29, 2013 07/29/13
Brian Harry
Today we released an update to our Visual Studio 2012 tools for Git.  We’ve been iterating on these since the first release in February and each release gets more complete, easier to use and better performance.  Of course that same tooling (though it’s a bit older release than 0.9.5.0) is included in the VS 2013 preview ...

Visual Studio a leader in software quality suites

July 25, 2013 Jul 25, 2013 07/25/13
Brian Harry
Visual Studio has always been a great tool for developers.  In 2010, as we continued to expand the breadth of our Application Lifecycle Management suite, we made our first foray into tooling specifically for testers with Visual Studio Test Professional.  Thus started a journey to really incorporate testers into the application ...