We've been working with some of the Agile & Lean thought leaders to gather their perspectives on the state of the art - past, present and future. It's some good reading. Check it out here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee889983(v=vs.110).aspx Brian
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
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...
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...
Next week I’m getting ready to hit the road for a bunch of conferences and customer visits. I’m looking forward to getting out and talking with people about what they are doing and what’s coming in VS 11. It all starts with the ALM Summit in Redmond 11/15 – 11/17. There we’ll have a bunch of people passionate about application lifecycle manage...
Several months ago I first started hearing customer reports of TFS databases growing out of control. Every once in a while I’d hear of someone with a database growing by 100GB a week or something equally nutty. Previously that had been the result of someone checking in crazy amounts of data – A few years ago a similar report turned out to be some...
The Team Foundation Server 11 Developer Preview introduces a number of simplifications and enhancements in Lab Management. The primary one you will notice in the developer preview is the introduction of 'Standard environments'.   Here is a brief summary of what Standard environments are and what you can do with them. Ever since we released Lab...
