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A VS SP1 Bug Fix List Posted

January 19, 2007 Jan 19, 2007 01/19/07

Brian Harry

Yesterday we posted a list of all bugs that were reported through the http://connect.microsoft.com site and fixed in VS2005 SP1.  The link is here and you'll find that there are 398 of them.  You can click in the link for each bug and go to the Connect bug report and read details about the problem. I'm pleased to see us continuing to...

January Visual Studio "Orcas" CTP Available

January 11, 2007 Jan 11, 2007 01/11/07

Brian Harry

Great news! Visual Studio Code Name "Orcas" January 2007 CTP is now available publicly to all customers!!  It is being released as a Virtual PC (VPC) image as well as a self-extracting install.. There's lots of great new stuff in it - you can check out one of the download pages for details.  Unfortuntately (as I had mentioned ...

New Orcas specs published

January 5, 2007 Jan 5, 2007 01/5/07

Brian Harry

Today we published a bunch of new Orcas specs.  There are new/updated VS specs and 3 new (and 1 updated) TFS specs. Folder Diff - The spec for the productized version of the TreeDiff PowerToy feature.  Check it out and see the improvements we're making. Large Group Sync - A somewhat obtuse feature to improve the behavior ...

What's in a Code Name?

December 20, 2006 Dec 20, 2006 12/20/06

Brian Harry

Mary Jo Foley is writing about one Microsoft code name per day on her blog.  I think it's pretty cool and there's a few code names I've never even heard of before.  She has written about a couple of Developer Division code names so I thought I'd add my own colorful commentary. She gives a little history on the VS code name ...

Update on Bug fixes in TFS SP1

December 19, 2006 Dec 19, 2006 12/19/06

Brian Harry

A couple of months ago I blogged the list of bug fixes & enhancements in TFS SP1.  Since then, we added a few more.  Here are the additional ones.  Some of them are just about fixing bugs with the patch itself.  I filtered those out of the initial list since they didn't seem that interesting.  However, since this ...

Release Cadence

December 14, 2006 Dec 14, 2006 12/14/06

Brian Harry

Sorry I've been away a while.  It's been almost 2 weeks since I've posted anything of much interest.  It's been crazy trying to get so many things finished up by the end of the year and I just haven't had time to think straight.  I've been trying to figure out what I was going to talk about next now that I've pretty much spilled...

More Transparency

November 22, 2006 Nov 22, 2006 11/22/06

Brian Harry

Recently we've been discussing CTPs and you have given us some great feedback about what you like and don't like.  We'll be using that feedback inform our future plans.  I'd like to talk to you about another form of transparency we've been working on - publishing specifications.  CTPs are great and they provide a good ...