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VS 2012 Update 5 has been released

August 27, 2015 Aug 27, 2015 08/27/15
Brian Harry
This week we released the final build of VS 2012 Update 5.  You can get it on the Visual Studio downloads page.  There are only a few changes in it.  You can find them in the VS 2012 Update 5 KB article.Brian...

Self forming teams at scale

July 24, 2015 Jul 24, 2015 07/24/15
Brian Harry
I want to share with you all a strange thing that we do.  It’s unorthodox but has been very successful for us. Teams change.  People come.  People go.  People move around.  Reorgs happen.  This is a fact of life, particularly in any large organization, and something managers spend a fair amount of time on – ...

Visual Studio 2012 Update 5 RC Available

July 21, 2015 Jul 21, 2015 07/21/15
Brian Harry
As part of the 2015 wave of releases, in addition to the 2015 products and a 2013 Update 5, we are also releasing a VS 2012 Update 5 (not one for TFS 2012 though).  This Update includes a few bug fixes.  The most notable, from my perspective, are some changes to make using VS 2012 with a TFS or VS Online Team Project that gets ...

Visual Studio 2015 and Visual Studio 2013 Update 5 Released

July 20, 2015 Jul 20, 2015 07/20/15
Brian Harry
Today, we released Visual Studio 2015, .NET 4.6, Visual Studio 2013 Update 5 and Team Foundation Server 2013 Update 5.  As I announced in a post a few weeks ago, Team Foundation Server 2015 is going to take just a bit longer (more on this in a minute), but you can get RC2 now if you like and it will work just fine with VS 2015 (and other ...

Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server at Build 2015

April 29, 2015 Apr 29, 2015 04/29/15
Brian Harry
It’s conference season – //Build/ is this week and Ignite is next week.  As you might expect, we have a TON of stuff to share so I’ll get right to it. Visual Studio & Team Foundation Server 2015 Release Candidate This week released the release candidates for both VS 2015 and TFS 2015.  Both are “go-live&...

VS 2015 CTP6 and TFS 2015 CTP1 shipped today

February 23, 2015 Feb 23, 2015 02/23/15
Brian Harry
Today we shipped Visual Studio 2015 CTP6 and TFS 2015 CTP1.  You can download both here: Download Visual Studio 2015 CTP 6 and Team Foundation Server 2015 CTP You can also read the release notes to learn more about them: Please submit bugs through Connect, suggestions on UserVoice and quick thoughts via Send-a-Smile in the Visual ...

New page on VS Online Agile Tooling

February 11, 2015 Feb 11, 2015 02/11/15
Brian Harry
We’re in the process of trying to significantly upgrade the content on our Visual Studio website.  We’re starting with the pages that describe what VS Online is and why you might want to use it.  The first new page is on Agile Tools.  In parallel, we are also working to add some more educational/best practices ...

Hiring for VS Online and Team Foundation Server

January 25, 2015 Jan 25, 2015 01/25/15
Brian Harry
Microsoft has an extensive recruiting effort.  But we recently decided to try something new to try to find more people who might want to help build VS Online and Team Foundation Server.  We added a Jobs page to visualstudio.com.  It has a little info on what we do and links to job postings on the Microsoft careers site and some ...

Visual Studio 2015 CTP 5 is available

January 16, 2015 Jan 16, 2015 01/16/15
Brian Harry
Today released CTP 5 of Visual Studio 2015. This is not a “go-live” build but is getting close to functionally complete.  If you’re curious what’s coming in VS 2015, check it out. Once again, we did not release a TFS preview with this VS CTP, however, this is the last time.  Our next VS 2015 preview ...

Git vulnerability with .gitconfig

December 18, 2014 Dec 18, 2014 12/18/14
Brian Harry
Today the Git community disclosed an issue in Git that, in the worst case, could allow a developer’s machine to be taken over.  This is an issue that manifests across much of the Git ecosystem and is not unique to Microsoft’s Git implementation or to Windows.  I’ll describe the problem and the steps we’ve ...