I’ve been meaning to write about this for a while but somehow the days just slip by and I never find the time. Team Foundation Service If you are a reader of my blog then you’ve been seeing my posts on our service updates for months now. But let me rewind a bit and start at the beginning. About 2 years ago we began the journey to bring TFS to...
It’s that time again! Today we deployed the results of our latest sprint (Sprint 35) to Team Foundation Service. You can read the release notes here: http://tfspreview.com/en-us/home/news/2012/aug-27/ As usual, it might take a few hours for all features to show up in all accounts. Note, we’ve now got perma-link support for the new...
Today, we enabled a new kanban board Team Foundation Service. Check out the news here for more information about the experience and how we plan to evolve it. I also wanted to mention that our plan is to include the kanban support in our first TFS 2012 on premises update later this fall. I’m really liking how the 3 week cloud cadence is playin...
Distributed Version Control (DVCS) has a growing following. It enables a set of workflows that can be very handy and Git is an increasingly popular DVCS solution. Today, we are announcing Git-tf, a solution that enables you to work locally with a Git repo – edit, commit, revert, branch, merge, etc. and then “sync up” with a central TFS repository...
Today we deployed a service update with our sprint 34 work. As part of this, we have introduced a new "News" section on the tfspreview.com site. Here's a link to today's news: http://tfspreview.com/en-us/home/news/2012/aug-6/. Unfortunately, we don't seem to have a news perma-link. I'll have to look into that and maybe it wi...
A month or so ago, I recorded a brief interview with Tim Huckaby. Here's a link if you want to check it out: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/jj553284.aspx Brian
This sprint is the smallest service change in a while. It was the last sprint for really wrapping up our TFS 11 on-premises work so most of our effort went into that. I’m expecting that we’ll see a significant increase in new service capabilities over the next couple of months. So, for the most part, this deployment has a bunch of miscellaneou...
I’ve written in the past about some of the work we’ve done on performance in TFS/VS 2012. I’m happy to see in the feedback that many people have noticed. We’re in the process of wrapping things up for this release and I got an update on our Test Pro performance results that I thought was worth sharing. This graph shows our top priority perfor...
Well, the last 3 weeks were busy. We announced our Azure Continuous Deployment support and removed the invitation codes to open the service up to everyone. As I wrote in my Spring wrap up post, we’ve kind of emptied the pipeline of all of the big stuff we’ve had in progress. So this sprint, we’ve got a few nice little enhancements to the service...
There are a couple of new books out now – one on overall application lifecycle management with Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server 2012 and the other a deeper drill into TFS. These were written by some of the best authors I know – combined they know as much about how to explain VS and TFS as any group of people I can imagine. I highly recomm...
