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
Today, I am in New York at the launch of Visual Studio 2013 speaking with a local audience and broadcasting around the world. In many ways it’s a celebration of the blood, sweat and tears we put into VS 2013. At the same time, it’s a bit anti-climactic because VS 2013 has been in preview for months and released for weeks. For me, there’s nothing...
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 a new...
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 here...
Yesterday we released the final release candidate for Update 4 for VS 2012 and TFS 2012. We’re on track to release the final versions in a month or so. I encourage you to try them out and let us know if there are any last minute issues we need to fix. One thing to keep in mind – If you install TFS 2012.4 RC4, you wi...
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 encourage you...
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 running ou...
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 $200 USD...
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 have 1 or 2 release c...
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 strength...
