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We’ve just finished sprint 31 and today we deployed it to the service.  In all, it a modest set of things but some nice improvements.  We’re now starting to get to the point that new things showing up on the service are ahead of what we have in the on premises product.  Some of this will show up in the RTM release of the on premises product and som...

We won't be releasing a new build of the Power Tools with the Release Candidate.  The Beta Power Tools that are available will work with the RC build.  The next time we'll update the Power Tools will be along with the final release.  Please let us know if you find any problems.Brian

A while ago, I wrote a post about the importance of feedback in the software development process.  In that post I introduced a new storyboarding tool that we’ve built as part of the VS 11 wave of products that enables you to collect feedback on your designs before you write a line of code.  In the product, we ship a bunch of pre-canned shapes – Win...

Today we released the Release Candidate for VS, TFS and .NET (and, of course, Windows also released their RC).  You can learn more about it and download using the following links: Here are a few notes on the changes in TFS since the Beta.  Of course, we’ve done a ton of testing and fixed a lot of bugs.  So it should be ...

Over the past couple of weeks I’ve spent a fair amount of time our visiting with customers and potential customers. Much of it was spent talking about the new stuff coming with TFS/VS 11. One question that came up at probably 1/3rd of customers I visited is how to do formal requirements with TFS. If you’ve looked, you’ve probably noticed TFS doe...

Several weeks ago, I announced that we’d be removing the price on the Team Foundation Server Eclipse plug-in.  One of the benefits of this change (aside from begin cheaper ) is that it’s easier to keep your plug-in up to date because we can use the standard Eclipse update mechanisms. Team Explorer Everywhere is now on the Eclipse Marketplace… ...

**UPDATED 5/15 @9:21EDT** Drag and drop of tiles has been enabled now for a few hours and I just updated the "Improved logout section" with a screenshot. It’s that time again.  Our next sprint is complete and today we’ve updated hosting service with new bits.  In general, the list of new capabilities is still modest.  Much of our attention is st...

It doesn't work right now because the Phone tools SDK isn't installed on our build agent images.  We've been talking with the phone tools team about this.  The blocker that we have is that the Phone tools SDK can't be installed on a server edition of the OS (it's blocked).  Add to that the fact that you can only run server OS edition...

Last week we rolled out an update to TFSPreview.  The majority of it was underlying plumbing changes to improve operations, diagnostics, cost, etc.  As we roll off our TFS 11 work, we’ll see more and more of our effort show up as new service capabilities.  That will mean more improvements, faster. The two biggest things we did in this latest rel...

Over the past couple of years there’s been a growing connection between development and operations.  The “old” world where development teams throw applications over the wall at ops is disappearing the same way the world where developers threw applications over the wall at test did.  Whether you’re talking about continuous deployment, DevOps or “Bui...