Brian Harry's Blog

Expression and TFS

June 30, 2008 Jun 30, 2008 06/30/08

Brian Harry

Warning - this is early information and is subject to change but the Expression team cleared me to say something about it. We get a lot of feedback from customers who would like more seamless integration between Expression and the rest of their development team using TFS.  Last week I saw a demo of work being done that will result in TFS ...

PDC 2008 & precons

June 16, 2008 Jun 16, 2008 06/16/08

Brian Harry

Preparation is in full swing for the Microsoft PDC this fall (Oct 27 - 30).  PDCs are the primary event where we talk about the future (as opposed to events like TechEd where we primarily talk about the present).  This PDC promised to have a great deal of new content for developers.  Among them, I think this will be the first ...

Professional Developers Conference this fall

May 28, 2008 May 28, 2008 05/28/08

Brian Harry

We'll be holding a PDC this fall in Los Angeles Oct 27 - 30.  Registration opens today at: http://www.microsoftpdc.com/.  There are many developer oriented conferences that present an opportunity to learn about Microsoft technologies.  The PDC is the most forward looking of those conferences.  It is an opportunity to learn ...

1 week left for SP1 Beta feedback

May 22, 2008 May 22, 2008 05/22/08

Brian Harry

We are nearing the end of the window for collecting Beta feedback on VS/VSTS/TFS 2008 SP1.  We are actively taking and working on feedback through the end of the month.  I haven't heard too much feedback yet.  I know it's hard to get excited about testing a Beta of an SP but if you have tried it, please let me know how it went.&...

2008 Beta Update

May 15, 2008 May 15, 2008 05/15/08

Brian Harry

A few things that I've run across in the last few days...   1) If you have both TFS and Team Explorer installed on the same server, you may not upgrade just one of them to the SP1 Beta, you would need to upgrade both of them if you want to upgrade either of them.  If they are on different machines, there is not a problem. 2) When ...

VS/VSTS/TFS 2008 SP1 Beta is now available

May 13, 2008 May 13, 2008 05/13/08

Brian Harry

Sorry for being a bit late to the game...  I should have posted yesterday but I've been drowning.  As you may already know, we released the Beta for 2008 SP1.  I'm eager to have you try it out and give us feedback.  You can find the list of new TFS features here. I do, however, want you to keep in mind that it is a Beta and...

A new home for Visual Studio Hotfixes

April 19, 2008 Apr 19, 2008 04/19/08

Brian Harry

We've been publishing hotfixes for general download for a year or so now.  Although it has been reasonably popular, it never took off (in terms of publishing or downloads) the way I had hoped.  Part of the problem, I believe, is that the advertising/download solution we had was not very conducive to finding what you want.  We ...

Some good screencasts

February 1, 2008 Feb 1, 2008 02/1/08

Brian Harry

Terry Clancy has some very nice screen casts on his blog.  They are worth checking out if you have interest in these areas. Brian...