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Microsoft acquires HockeyApp

December 11, 2014 Dec 11, 2014 12/11/14
Brian Harry
I’m excited to announce our acquisition of HockeyApp – the next step in our journey to turn Application Insights into the best tool in the world for helping you get insight into your applications.  With HockeyApp we add great support for mobile devices, allowing you see more of your application and helping you answer: 1) Is my ...

Special Offers from Visual Studio Partners

November 20, 2014 Nov 20, 2014 11/20/14
Brian Harry
Last week at our Connect(); event in New York City, we made some big announcements regarding our ecosystem from a developer as well as a partner point of view.  In addition to those announcements, I wanted to call your attention to special offers for MSDN subscribers from some of our top Visual Studio partners.  You can also check ...

News from Connect();

November 12, 2014 Nov 12, 2014 11/12/14
Brian Harry
This week we had our “Connect();” developer event in New York.  We made a ton of announcements.  You’ll find a bunch on Soma’s blog, the Visual Studio blog, the Visual Studio ALM blog and in the release notes. At the highest level, we announced: I also previewed some features that will be coming to VS ...

Connect(); is today

November 12, 2014 Nov 12, 2014 11/12/14
Brian Harry
Our Connect(); event for developers is today.  I’m in New York getting ready for a few presentations I’m giving.  It’s going to be a busy day because we have a lot of stuff to tell you about – some of it, I think, pretty exciting and unexpected.  If you’ve got time, I encourage you to tune into the ...

TechEd Europe 2014 News

October 28, 2014 Oct 28, 2014 10/28/14
Brian Harry
Today, in the keynote for TechEd Europe, we announced several cool new things… VS Online European data center We now have a VS Online instance in the Azure “West Europe” data center and it is open for business.  You can read more about it in my separate post. VS Online REST APIs and Service Hooks RTM This spring, at TechEd in ...

Visual Studio and TFS 2013.4 (Update 4) Release Candidate

October 16, 2014 Oct 16, 2014 10/16/14
Brian Harry
It’s time!  The Release Candidate of Visual Studio 2013.4 and Team Foundation Server 2013.4 is here. I’ve written some posts about the CTPs along the way.  But I’ll give a high-level recap of the ALM improvements and talk about a few of the new things showing up in this RC. Work item tracking and Agile project ...

Visual Studio and TFS 2013.4 CTP2 is available

September 22, 2014 Sep 22, 2014 09/22/14
Brian Harry
Today we released the second CTP (community technology preview) of Visual Studio 2013 Update 4 and TFS 2013 Update 4.  You can read about the VS changes on the Visual Studio blog.  You can download the CTP.  Or you can check out the release notes.  Also here’s the link to the blog post I wrote on CTP1. TFS ...

VS & TFS 2013 Update 4 CTP 1 is available

September 3, 2014 Sep 3, 2014 09/3/14
Brian Harry
I don’t know about you but it’s kind of hard for me to wrap my head around the fact that we are already on the road to delivering Visual Studio 2013.4 and Team Foundation Server 2013.4.  Update 3 wasn’t that long ago.  Today we are delivering Update 4 CTP (Community Technology Preview) 1.  As always, there will be a couple...

Visual Studio “14” CTP 3 available

August 18, 2014 Aug 18, 2014 08/18/14
Brian Harry
Today we released CTP of our next major Visual Studio release.  You can look in the release notes to see what is in it.  You can also read about the highlights on John’s post. There’s no startling new improvements in this CTP but lots of nice, smaller, things. Just a reminder, we aren’t shipping CTP ...