Brian Harry's Blog

The Improved Microsoft Developer Network

July 31, 2013 Jul 31, 2013 07/31/13

Brian Harry

Today we launched the new Microsoft Developer Network site.  As I've mentioned before, my team is responsible for much of the infrastructure and experience for MSDN.  I’m very proud of what we have and at the same time see opportunities for improvement. There are two primary use modes for the MSDN web site.  The biggest one is search...

VS 2012.4 (Update 4) will exist!

July 30, 2013 Jul 30, 2013 07/30/13

Brian Harry

Sometime this spring, though for the life of me I can’t find it, I wrote a blog post where I said I thought Update 3 (VS/TFS 2012.3) would be the last update in the VS/TFS 2012 update line.  I often say that nothing that is said about the future is more than a guess with varying levels of confidence.  So, it turns out that I was wrong.  A...

A few more Visual Studio 2013 Preview features

June 26, 2013 Jun 26, 2013 06/26/13

Brian Harry

I recently announced the availability of the Visual Studio 2013 and Team Foundation Server 2013 previews.  There are a couple of new features available with this preview that I’d like to talk a bit more about. Cloud Load Testing Now that the Preview is available, you can try out our new cloud load testing experience.  We’ve been using ...

Visual Studio 2013 Preview is available

June 26, 2013 Jun 26, 2013 06/26/13

Brian Harry

Today at the Build conference, we announced the availability of Visual Studio 2013 Preview and Team Foundation Server 2013 Preview.  You can download them here.  You can also read my blog post from Tech Ed for a bunch of info on the new ALM features.  You can also check out Soma’s blog for more on what’s in this ...

Visual Studio 2012.3 is released

June 26, 2013 Jun 26, 2013 06/26/13

Brian Harry

Today we officially released Visual Studio 2012.3 and Team Foundation Server 2012.3.  All in all, these are small releases, mostly containing high priority bug fixes and a few changes to improve the compatibility/interop story with VS 2013.  You can read all about it in the KB article or download it here: http://go.microsoft.com/...

A refresh of our forums

June 18, 2013 Jun 18, 2013 06/18/13

Brian Harry

We’ve just completed and launched a new version of the Microsoft forums.  We’ve worked really hard to substantially improve the experience both for people looking for answers and those providing them.  We started by making it easier to find what you are looking for.  Instead of navigating categories to find those that might be relevant...

VS 2013 round tripping

June 4, 2013 Jun 4, 2013 06/4/13

Brian Harry

In VS 2012, we introduced the notion of “round-tripping”.  This meant the ability for VS 2012 to load and save VS 2010 compatible solutions/projects.  That was a huge customer ask and I’ve heard a lot of feedback since then that customers rely on it. At TechEd this week, I was asked what the story with 2013 would be...