The Patterns & Practices team has just published a document on best practices for implementing Continuous Delivery using VS & TFS 2012. It’s a great overview of how to think about the problem and how to implement it. Check it out… http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj159345 Brian
OK, so maybe I didn’t need to tell you that. Or maybe, you observe that it isn’t quite true because summer officially starts in about a week. But then that’s not really what I mean. I’ve written little tidbits about our transition from an organization shipping a box product every couple of years to one still shipping a box product but also shi...
Since we announced the Team Foundation Service Preview at the BUILD conference last year, we’ve limited the onboarding of new customers by requiring invitation codes to create accounts. The main reason for this has been to control the growth of the service to make sure it didn’t run away from us and end up with a bad user experience. In this time...
A couple of years ago, we partnered with TeamDevCentral to set up one of the first hosted Team Foundation Server clouds. It was the very beginning of our thinking on what a cloud based ALM solution might look like. Since then Rational eyes, the company behind TeamDevCentral has continued to chart new territory. Most recently they worked...
Clemens Reijnen recently blogged about a new Windows Phone app for working with TFS and the TMap testing methodology. Read more about it on Clemens’ blog here: http://www.clemensreijnen.nl/post/2012/05/11/TMap-for-TFS-Windows-Phone-7-App-available-in-the-marketplace.aspx Brian
I've seen a spike in requests for invitation codes following our announcement of the new TFS/Azure Continuous Delivery work at Azure Day this week. I figured, I'd put out another multi-use invitation code just to minimize the wait for additional people who have learned about it and want to try it out. Here, you go. You can go to http://...
We’ve finally gotten to shipping an update to VS 2008 SP1 to fully support TFS 11 – including the the hosted service http://www.tfspreview.com. VS 11 has supported it from the beginning, of course. We’ve released updates for VS 2010 SP1 along the way. And now we have an update for VS 2008 SP1. This will ena...
I've mentioned in a couple of posts recently how busy it's been around here lately. One of the many things keeping us busy over the past several weeks has been upgrading the main Developer Division Team Foundation Server to TFS 11. We've been using TFS in production on smaller servers (for example the one the TFS team uses) for over a y...
Here's a link to some "chalk talk" video's on yesterday's Azure announcements. Among them is a video from our very own Aaron Bjork on the TFS integration that we've done. Check it out for a more colorful explanation than yesterday's blog post :) http://www.meetwindowsazure.com/DigitalChalkTalks Brian
I mentioned earlier this week in my sprint 31 deployment post that we were working on some bigger things I wasn’t ready to talk about yet. Well, this is one of them…. As development organizations are trying to improve the cycle times on their development process – getting ideas through development and into production and collecting feedback fas...
