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Upcoming Power Tool Release for TFS 2008

November 20, 2007 Nov 20, 2007 11/20/07
Brian Harry
Now that the 2008 wave of products have shipped, many of you are probably beginning to ask yourselves - "hey, what about the Power Tools"?  I know this because I've been bombarded with emails about it today :) We have a plan :)  I wish I could announce that they were ready to go but unfortunately we just weren't able to ...

New 2008 features

November 19, 2007 Nov 19, 2007 11/19/07
Brian Harry
I didn't post a big list of features with my announcement post an hour or so ago.  However, here is a pointer to the final list of TFS 2008 features I posted a couple of months ago. http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2007/08/08/final-tfs-2008-feature-list.aspx Also, Jeff Beehler has produced a very nice indexed feature list that covers ...

VS/VSTS/TFS 2008 are Shipping!

November 19, 2007 Nov 19, 2007 11/19/07
Brian Harry
Today (Nov 19th, 2007) we released Visual Studio and Visual Studio Team System (including Team Foundation Server) 2008.  It may seem a bit anti-climactic after all of the CTPs and Betas along the way, however, it's a thrill to have it done, broadly available and fully supported.  You can go to http://www.microsoft.com/vstudio to find...

A new TFS to TFS Migration Tool

November 16, 2007 Nov 16, 2007 11/16/07
Brian Harry
What's that you ask and why would I want it? As you know TFS stores a ton of lifecycle data about application development - source code, change history, tasks, bugs, historical data, ...  If you use the TFS client tools, all of that data goes in and comes out of TFS very nicely.  However, there are lots of scenarios where that isn't ...

VS/VSTS/TFS 2008 Release is near!

November 6, 2007 Nov 6, 2007 11/6/07
Brian Harry
Yesterday at TechEd in Europe, Soma announced that the 2008 wave of developer products (VS, VSTS, TFS & .NET 3.5) will ship this month (November).  We've been saying for a long time now that it would be this year but, despite repeated requests, we've refused to be more specific :).  Now we've narrowed it down to the month.  ...

November '07 DevDiv Dogfood Statistics

November 6, 2007 Nov 6, 2007 11/6/07
Brian Harry
It's been a while since I wrote about the DevDiv TFS statistics.  Sorry about that, I guess it's just been a really busy summer.  Usage continues to climb steadily and we are just now beginning the rollout to the rest of DevDiv.  The next version of VS/.NET will be built entirely using TFS - no more usage of the older internal ...

Final word on unexpected VS 2008 Beta 2 expirations

October 30, 2007 Oct 30, 2007 10/30/07
Brian Harry
The final mitigation for our unexpectedly expiring VS/VSTS/TFS 2008 Beta 2 VPC is now in place.  Yesterday we uploaded new VPC images with the expirations changed.  Again, remember that the issue only affects VPC images.  If you installed the actual setups, there will not be any early expiration issue. You can read more about...

Bug handling on Connect & Transparency

October 29, 2007 Oct 29, 2007 10/29/07
Brian Harry
I've blogged a fair about over the past couple of years on transparency in our process.  I've also advocated for it a great deal internally.  This post caught my eye today both because it is a great commentary on transparency and a great description of how we handle bugs that customers enter throught the http://connect.microsoft.com ...

Team System Widgets

October 29, 2007 Oct 29, 2007 10/29/07
Brian Harry
I think I blogged about this site a couple of years ago but they recently improved it and it's worth another mention.  This is the best site I've ever seen for finding a handy list of the multitude of additional Team System add-ons.  I frequently complain to our marketing team asking "Why can't we have a list as good as theirs?" :).&...