Brian Harry's Blog

Visual Studio Surveys

November 26, 2013 Nov 26, 2013 11/26/13

Brian Harry

We are running a couple of surveys on Visual Studio to collect feedback for our next release cycle.  We’d appreciate any feedback you have.  Here are the links to the surveys on the VS blog. Thanks, Brian...

Visual Studio 2012 tools for Git RTM

October 30, 2013 Oct 30, 2013 10/30/13

Brian Harry

We released the first drop of our Visual Studio tools for Git about a year ago as a plugin for VS 2012.  Our ultimate goal was to release them as part of VS 2013 RTM (and we did).  At the same time, we wanted to iterate quickly on VS 2012 because we could get a lot more feedback and because there’s always an adoption curve for ...

Visual Studio 2013 RTM Available

October 17, 2013 Oct 17, 2013 10/17/13

Brian Harry

In the wee hours of the morning this morning, we made the final versions of Visual Studio 2013, Team Foundation Server 2013 and .NET 4.51 available.  You can download the trials and related products and MSDN subscribers can download the licensed product from the subscriber portal.  You can learn more about what’s new in VS 2013...

Visual Studio 2012.4 RC 3 Available

September 11, 2013 Sep 11, 2013 09/11/13

Brian Harry

Every few weeks I’ve been posting about new pre-releases for VS/TFS 2012 Update 4.  Yesterday we released another one – RC 3. Important links: Among other things, the KB article contains a list of fixes in Update 4.  At this point we are starting to get towards the end of the Update 4 cycle and I’d ...

Visual Studio 2013 & TFS 2013 RC is available

September 9, 2013 Sep 9, 2013 09/9/13

Brian Harry

Today we released the Release Candidate for the VS 2013 suite of products.  This is a “go-live” production worthy version and will likely be the last publicly available build before we RTM.  I strongly encourage you to try it out and let us know if you find any blocking issues.  The clock is ticking and time is ...

Expanding Windows Azure MSDN Benefit

September 3, 2013 Sep 3, 2013 09/3/13

Brian Harry

We are expanding the Windows Azure MSDN benefit to two additional subscription levels: MSDN Platforms and Visual Studio Test Professional with MSDN. MSDN Platforms subscribers will receive a $100 monthly credit, while Visual Studio Test Professional with MSDN subscribers will receive a $50 credit per month. Plus, subscribers will receive a $...

VS/TFS 2012.4 (Update 4) RC 2 is available

August 19, 2013 Aug 19, 2013 08/19/13

Brian Harry

Three weeks ago I announced that there will, in fact, be a fourth update to VS/TFS 2012.  It’s going to be a very small update – really not much more than key bug fixes.  It’s going to ship sometime toward the end of the year and, between now and then, we will be releasing as series of “Release Candidates”.  Normally we’d only ...

Feedback on the refreshed Microsoft Developer Network

August 6, 2013 Aug 6, 2013 08/6/13

Brian Harry

First, thanks for all the feedback, even if some of it is a bit brutal.  Sorry for not getting back a bit sooner.  I had planned to it Monday but came down with a pretty nasty cold this weekend.  However, I’ve been reading all the feedback carefully and digesting it. Let me distill the feedback that I heard in order of ...