From the day we conceived TFS back in 2003, we knew that we wanted it to be an open platform upon which anyone could build their favorite development experiences. We started by building an architecture based on standard technologies – SQL Server for the datastore, Reporting Services and Analysis Services for analytics, web services for ...
About a week ago, I wrote a post describing some cool stuff coming in Visual Studio ALM Feature Pack 2. I’m happy to announce that it is now available. A reminder that Feature Pack 2 is available to customers with VS Ultimate with MSDN, VS Premium with MSDN or VS Test Professional with MSDN. You can find the download on our Featur...
At SQL PASS last week, Microsoft gave some insights into the next version of SQL Server (Denali) and a new generation of database development tools (Juneau). You can read more about it here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/dataplatforminsider/archive/2010/11/10/microsoft-dives-deeper-into-sql-server-code-named-denali-the-next-version-of-sql-server...
Back in June, I introduced the notion of a “Feature Pack”. Soon afterwards I announced the availability of the first Feature Pack – the Modeling Feature Pack. Now, it is my pleasure to give you a preview of the soon-to-be-released Testing Feature Pack (internally known as Feature Pack 2). It’s another VS 2010 family deliverable that has some tot...
Jeff recently blogged about some pretty significant improvements that are coming in VS 2010 SP1: http://thirdblogfromthesun.com/2010/10/the-story-of-help-in-visual-studio-2010-part-3/ We've gotten some very strong feedback about local help viewing and we've gone a long way to try to address it. Check out his post to learn more. Brian
OK, maybe not quite but a big step forward. This week we released a hotfix for both VS and WPF that changes menu placement to eliminate scrolling menus when there actually is enough vertical real estate to avoid them. In the screen shot below (with the patch applied), you can see that menu has been moved up (relative to the right click target – P...
As part of our preparation for Service Pack 1 of VS 2010, we are running a general product satisfaction survey to understand how people feel about the product and what areas, if any, they feel need to be improved. This is primarily targeted at the kind of improvements we would make in a service pack (not big new features :)). We'd appre...
As part of our preparation for Service Pack 1 of VS 2010, we are running a general product satisfaction survey to understand how people feel about the product and what areas, if any, they feel need to be improved. This is primarily targeted at the kind of improvements we would make in a service pack (not big new features :)). We'd appre...
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vstsue/archive/2010/09/27/vsalm-library-updates-on-msdn-for-september-2010.aspxBrian
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vstsue/archive/2010/09/27/vsalm-library-updates-on-msdn-for-september-2010.aspxBrian
