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DevOps @ Connect(); 2017

November 9, 2017 Nov 9, 2017 11/9/17

Brian Harry

I am excited…There will be lots of news…at Microsoft Connect(); 2017 happening Wednesday Nov 15th in New York City. Please join the live stream starting at 10:00 AM EST for Scott Guthrie’s keynote, where he will showcase lots of new innovations across Azure, .NET, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Team Services and more. At 3:00 PM EST...

Open sourcing the MSTest Test Framework

March 28, 2017 Mar 28, 2017 03/28/17

Brian Harry

A couple of months ago I blogged about open sourcing the VS Test platform. In that post, I talked about the numerous test frameworks that it supports, on of the most popular ones being MSTest. I also foreshadowed our plan to also open source MSTest V2. Today I'm happy to announce that we have open sourced MSTest V2 under the MIT license...

Open sourcing the VS Test platform

January 20, 2017 Jan 20, 2017 01/20/17

Brian Harry

Yesterday we released our unit test execution infrastructure as an open source project. You'll also find an open source project with the documentation. VSTest is a very extensible unit test execution framework. The base engine, discovers tests and runs them. It can parallelize across cores, provides process isolation and can integrate ...

Connect(); event today

November 16, 2016 Nov 16, 2016 11/16/16

Brian Harry

Check out the Connect(); event today. Live stream Scott's keynote and view on demand tons of other content - including my session on DevOps. https://connectevent.microsoft.com/ Brian...

VS2015 Update 2 and TFS 2015 Update 2 have shipped

March 31, 2016 Mar 31, 2016 03/31/16

Brian Harry

Yesterday, at the //Build/ conference, we announced the final release of Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 and Team Foundation Server 2015 Update 2. You can learn more at the following links: Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 TFS 2015 Update 2 We also released an early preview of Visual Studio “15”. We will not be releasing a preview of TFS...

Microsoft joins the Eclipse Foundation

March 8, 2016 Mar 8, 2016 03/8/16

Brian Harry

This morning at EclipseCon, we announced that we are joining the Eclipse Foundation to further our goals of helping developers build applications regardless of the technology stack choices they make. At the same time, we announced the new open source project for Team Explorer Everywhere to enable anyone to contribute to creating a great ...

TFS 2015 RC2 and VS 2015 Update 2 RC are available

March 3, 2016 Mar 3, 2016 03/3/16

Brian Harry

Today we released release candidate 2 of TFS 2015 Update 2 and the release candidate of Visual Studio 2015 Update 2. Download TFS 2015 Update 2 RC 2 TFS Release notes Download VS 2015 Update 2 RC VS Release notes Landing page with a full list of downloads As usual I'll mostly comment on TFS and TFS related features and let the VS blog ...

VS 2015 Update 1 and TFS 2015 Update 1 are available

November 30, 2015 Nov 30, 2015 11/30/15

Brian Harry

Today we shipped the final releases of Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 and Team Foundation Server 2015 Update 1. Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 Team Foundation Server 2015 Update 1 Team Foundation Server Express 2015 Update 1 TFS Office Integration installer TFS Project Server Extensions Here are the release notes: Visual Studio 2015 Update ...

VS 2015 Update 1 RC & TFS 2015 Update 1 RC2 Released

November 3, 2015 Nov 3, 2015 11/3/15

Brian Harry

We just released our final “pre-release” of Update 1 for Team Foundation Server 2015 and Visual Studio 2015. Lots of useful links are available here: Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 RC Release Notes Team Foundation Server 2015 Update 1 RC 2 Release Notes MSDN Article for VS 2015 Update 1 RC MSDN Article for TFS 2015 ...