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Git extension for VS 2012 Update 2 CTP4

March 7, 2013 Mar 7, 2013 03/7/13

Brian Harry

A couple of days ago I announced the availability of VS/TFS 2012.2 CTP4.  At that time I mentioned that there would be an update of our Visual Studio Git extensions to work with it.  We released the Git extension update last night and you can read more about it in Matt’s and Andy’s blog post.  We continue to push ...

CTP4 (March) of VS/TFS 2012 Update 2 is available

March 4, 2013 Mar 4, 2013 03/4/13

Brian Harry

We are continuing our journey to deliver a final release of Update 2.  You can read about the CTP3 we shipped a few weeks ago here.  The most notable thing about this CTP is that it is “go-live”.  One of our big learnings from shipping Update 1 was that we really do need feedback from real customer deployments before...

Update to VS Git tooling

February 12, 2013 Feb 12, 2013 02/12/13

Brian Harry

Yesterday, we posted a small update to the Git tooling for VS.  Since we just released it the other day, we don’t have much new yet but we should continue (at least for a while) to update it after each of our 3 week sprints. This update has 3 significant bug fixes: 1) Add support for VS 2012 Express for Windows Desktop 2) Fix a bug ...

CTP for Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 (VS 2012.2) is available

February 11, 2013 Feb 11, 2013 02/11/13

Brian Harry

Read more here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudioalm/archive/2013/02/11/february-ctp-for-visual-studio-update-2.aspx We’ve just shipped the next Community Technology Preview (CTP) for VS and TFS Update 2.  This release is still not a broad go-live release.  Learning from our last Update (Update 1 – VS 2012.1), we are ...

Today's Reddit Ask Me Anything (AMA)

February 1, 2013 Feb 1, 2013 02/1/13

Brian Harry

I'll start answering question on today's AMA at about 10:15am PST this morning.  It will open about 30 minutes ahead of time to start collecting questions and letting people vote them up/down. ***UPDATE*** The url for the AMA is:https://aka.ms/ama_bharry Hope to see you there. Brian...

Git init VS

January 30, 2013 Jan 30, 2013 01/30/13

Brian Harry

Today at the ALM Summit I made a bunch of announcements.  A couple of them warrant a bit of extra comment (image) Today, I made 2 announcements involving TFS, VS and Git. Resources (image)   That’s right, TFS & VS support a full fidelity implementation of Git.  Although this comes as kind ...

Announcing Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 (VS2012.2)

January 30, 2013 Jan 30, 2013 01/30/13

Brian Harry

Today we released the first Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 (VS2012.2).  It’s exciting to see the next update of VS working it’s way to completion.  There’s going to be a ton of cool new capabilities in Update 2.  Not all of them are available in this CTP but many are.  Below, I’ve described the ...

Modern Lifecycle on the Cloud OS

January 15, 2013 Jan 15, 2013 01/15/13

Brian Harry

Microsoft announced a bunch of new releases today, advancing our Cloud OS vision.  You can read more on the overall announcements here but I will focus on some new/improved application lifecycle management scenarios that support our DevOps initiatives. The cloud continues to drive new demands on application development.  It enables ...

VS/TFS 2012 Release Candidate expiring

January 8, 2013 Jan 8, 2013 01/8/13

Brian Harry

I’m starting to receive mails from a number of people observing that their installs of the 2012 Release Candidate are approaching expiration on Jan 15.  That’s just over a week away.  I’m being asked if there’s some way to extend the expiration because the customer isn’t ready to upgrade.  ...

Visual Studio, TFS and the Egyptian elections

November 30, 2012 Nov 30, 2012 11/30/12

Brian Harry

A little over a year ago, I was contacted by someone responsible for helping the new Egyptian government build the software necessary to run their first elections.  It was clearly a profound time for the country and for the world.  They took the responsibility of having robust, trustworthy and event free elections very seriously. ...