About a week ago, we shipped a Beta the first version of the Team Foundation Server Power Tools that work with VS 11 and are optimized to work with TFS 11. This will be a bit shorter than a full announcement post because it’s a Beta and it’s not complete yet. I’ll do a comprehensive post when we get closer to...
Today in my VS Live keynote, I announced and demonstrated a new cloud based build service for our Team Foundation Service on Azure. From the beginning with tfspreview, you’ve been able to do builds, but – you had to install, manage, patch, etc the build machines yourself. With this new service, we’ve made it possible to skip that and just use a p...
UPDATE It looks like Grant Holliday wrote a nice post that covers more than mine does. It's not quite as up to date with the Compat GDR but it's good reading too: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/granth/archive/2012/01/03/tfs-2010-what-service-packs-and-hotfixes-should-i-install.aspx We've been releasing a variety of updates to TFS and the VS support ...
Along with the VS/.NET/TFS Beta, the Visual Studio Rangers created a whole bunch of new readiness content to help you be successful with the next generation of our tools. Real on their blog for more details: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudioalm/archive/2012/02/29/welcome-to-visual-studio-11-alm-rangers-readiness-beta-wave.aspxBrian
About 2 years ago, we first introduced Team Explorer Everywhere. In doing that we enabled diverse teams to work closely together regardless of platform or technology stack. We provided organizations a substantially improved ability to manage all of their projects and get consistent visibility across them. And we gave a new group of people access...
As we said earlier this month, the VS 11 Beta and Windows 8 Consumer previews are available. In the next couple of weeks I’ll write more about things to look for in the TFS Beta. In the mean time, checkout Jason’s blog for a good overview of what you’ll find. Here’s a bunch of useful links to learn more: Vi...
Here’s a nice article on how you can integrate SCRUM and other agile practices into a more formal project management process by combining TFS and Project Server. http://www.mpug.com/News/Pages/Exchanging-Project-Data-with-Your-Development-Team.aspx Brian
I’m trying hard to keep up with all of the news. I’m in India this week and the time zone difference is making it tough. Here I’m going to give you a bunch of links so you can follow all of the news. The Road to Visual Studio 11 Beta and .NET Framework 4.5 Beta Sneak Preview of Visual Studio 11 and .NET Framework 4.5 B...
Soon, we will be announcing the availability of our VS/TFS 11 Beta. This is a major new release for us that includes big enhancements for developer, project managers, testers and Analysts. Over the next month or two, I’ll write a series of posts to demonstrate some of those improvements. Today I want to let you know about a new way to get TFS...
A month or so ago we started seeing crashes on the SQL Server associated with one of our dogfood TFS servers. The crashes ultimately resulted in us having to restore the database from backup. It was a significant work disturbance and an important thing to avoid. We diagnosed the problem in tandem with the SQL Server team and discovered ...
