Brian Harry's Blog

Visual Studio 2013

June 3, 2013 Jun 3, 2013 06/3/13

Brian Harry

Hold on to your seat, this is going to be a long one… Today at TechEd, I announced Visual Studio 2013 and Team Foundation Server 2013 and many of the Application Lifecycle Management features that they include. Today, we enabled some of those features on Team Foundation Service for you to try out immediately and I announced that a preview...

Visual Studio 2012.3 RC2 available

May 30, 2013 May 30, 2013 05/30/13

Brian Harry

We are getting close to shipping Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server 2012.3 (Update 3).  This week we shipped Release Candidate 2 (RC2).  We’re down to fixing just the last few bugs and if you are thinking up upgrading to Update 3, now would be a good time to give it a try and let us know if there are any last minute ...

Some thoughts on a comment about VS 2012.3

May 8, 2013 May 8, 2013 05/8/13

Brian Harry

Yesterday, I got a thoughtful comment from Dean on my post about Update 3.  I sat down to write a response this morning and it turned into a but of a novel (in fact, the blog says it’s too long to post as a comment (image) ).  So I’ve turned it into a post.  Here was Dean’s comment: Brian, I looked at the list of fixes, you weren'...

Visual Studio 2012.3 (Update 3) “go-live” CTP is now available

May 7, 2013 May 7, 2013 05/7/13

Brian Harry

I know it seems like 2012.2 just released (at least it does to me) but we’re already well into our schedule for 2012.3.  Today, we released the updates for both Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server.  This is the first “go-live” release in the 2012.3 line of CTPs – this means that we’ve tested it to ...

Updated TFS 2010 MSSCCI Provider

April 29, 2013 Apr 29, 2013 04/29/13

Brian Harry

Last week we released an update to the TFS 2010 MSSCCI provider.  The primary motivator for this release was to enable it to work with VS 2005.  This now enables you to connect to TFS 2012 using VS 2005, particularly from Windows XP.  The support for VS 2005 was the only enhancement to this update of the 2010 MSSCCI provider. ...

Visual Studio Tools for Git Update available

April 26, 2013 Apr 26, 2013 04/26/13

Brian Harry

Yesterday, we released a major update to our Visual Studio Tools for Git.  While still nowhere near done, we feel like we’ve crossed a significant threshold of completeness and usability.  If you’re already using them or have tried them and didn’t feel they were ready, I encourage you to give this update a go. You can install the ...

VS/TFS 2012.2 (Update 2) released today

April 4, 2013 Apr 4, 2013 04/4/13

Brian Harry

Today, we released our second update to Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server 2012.  You can read a fairly detailed post with all the new capabilities on the ALM blog.  There’s a ton of new value in the in this update as evidenced by the long list of new features in that post.  Roughly speaking, Update 2 is about the ...