Brian Harry's Blog

Revitalizing the VS hotfix downloads

November 30, 2007 Nov 30, 2007 11/30/07

Brian Harry

In my last post, I referred to "a couple" of VS2008 initiatives that we are breathing new life into.  In that post I talked about our specification sharing process for Rosario.  The second one we've been reinvigorating is our publicly available downloads.  In the later part of the VS2008 product cycle, the site went a bit stale...

VSTS codename 'Rosario' Specifications begin to arrive

November 30, 2007 Nov 30, 2007 11/30/07

Brian Harry

During the VS 2008 product cycle, we started several new initiatives to increase transparency.  Some of them continued strong and some of them sputtered.  We are breathing new life into a couple of them.  The first to be reinvigorated it the specification publishing process.  We'll be publishing early previews of specs for ...

Visual Studio 2008 SDK has been released

November 23, 2007 Nov 23, 2007 11/23/07

Brian Harry

Along with the RTM of VS/VSTS/TFS 2008 and .NET 3.5 this week, we have released a compatible version of the Visual Studio SDK.  The changes to the TFS portion of this SDK are fairly minimal.  We updated all of the TFS samples so that there are both VB and C# versions and we updated the TFS object model assemblies to the TFS 2008 ...

2008 Installation Questions

November 22, 2007 Nov 22, 2007 11/22/07

Brian Harry

Now that the 2008 wave of developer products has shipped I've seen a ton of questions about downloading and installing them.  In this post I'm going to tackle answers to all of the questions I've seen around VSTS/TFS. 1) Hey you guys say you shipped TFS but where do I get it? This is the most common and, unfortunately, most complicated ...

VS/VSTS/TFS 2008 are Shipping!

November 19, 2007 Nov 19, 2007 11/19/07

Brian Harry

Today (Nov 19th, 2007) we released Visual Studio and Visual Studio Team System (including Team Foundation Server) 2008.  It may seem a bit anti-climactic after all of the CTPs and Betas along the way, however, it's a thrill to have it done, broadly available and fully supported.  You can go to http://www.microsoft.com/vstudio to find...

VS/VSTS/TFS 2008 Release is near!

November 6, 2007 Nov 6, 2007 11/6/07

Brian Harry

Yesterday at TechEd in Europe, Soma announced that the 2008 wave of developer products (VS, VSTS, TFS & .NET 3.5) will ship this month (November).  We've been saying for a long time now that it would be this year but, despite repeated requests, we've refused to be more specific :).  Now we've narrowed it down to the month.  ...

Final word on unexpected VS 2008 Beta 2 expirations

October 30, 2007 Oct 30, 2007 10/30/07

Brian Harry

The final mitigation for our unexpectedly expiring VS/VSTS/TFS 2008 Beta 2 VPC is now in place.  Yesterday we uploaded new VPC images with the expirations changed.  Again, remember that the issue only affects VPC images.  If you installed the actual setups, there will not be any early expiration issue. You can read more about...