{"id":1171,"date":"2014-07-02T10:21:17","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T10:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/bharry\/2014\/07\/02\/vstfs-2013-3-update-3-rc\/"},"modified":"2024-03-19T15:15:31","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T22:15:31","slug":"vstfs-2013-3-update-3-rc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/vstfs-2013-3-update-3-rc\/","title":{"rendered":"VS\/TFS 2013.3 (Update 3) RC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we are releasing Visual Studio 2013 and Team Foundation Server 2013 Update 3.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/p\/?LinkId=397827\">Download Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 RC<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/p\/?LinkId=397828\">Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 KB article<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.visualstudio.com\/news\/2014-jul-2-vs\">Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 RC release notes<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You\u2019ll find a complete list of download links in the release notes.<\/p>\n<p>This is a \u201cgo-live\u201d release and is expected to be the last preview before Update 3 is released.\u00a0 It will be supported in production, can be used to upgrade production environments and will support upgrades to the final version when it is available.\u00a0 We expect the final release to be within the next month or two.<\/p>\n<p>There is quite a lot of stuff in VS 2013 Update 3.\u00a0 You can read about a lot of the detail on the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/VisualStudio\">Visual Studio blog<\/a> or in the release notes I referenced above.\u00a0 I\u2019ll call out a couple of the things that I\u2019m particularly passionate about:<\/p>\n<p><strong>CodeLens support for Git<\/strong> \u2013 In Update 3, we\u2019ve added CodeLens support for projects using Git, in addition to those using Team Foundation Version Control.\u00a0 CodeLens for Git works against the local Git repo and, as such, works whether you are using an onprem TFS server, VS Online, another Git service (like GitHub) or are offline completely.\u00a0 Next up on the CodeLens slate (not in Update 3 though), is support for CodeLens with TFVC on VS Online.\u00a0 Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/visualstudioalm\/archive\/2014\/05\/23\/code-lens-for-git-in-visual-studio-2013-ultimate-update-3.aspx\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mixed Case Menus<\/strong> \u2013 I know I\u2019m going to get some feedback on this one \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 This is a long standing request by a vocal portion of the VS user base since VS 2012 to change the \u201cALL CAPS\u201d menus.\u00a0 In VS 2013 Update 3, we have added a Tools \u2013&gt; Options setting to control whether you see ALL CAPS or Mixed Case.\u00a0 The default is still ALL CAPS but, if you change it, it will persist across upgrades and will roam across your IDE instances using the VS Online roaming settings feature (if you log into VS so it knows who you are).\u00a0 For grins, I\u2019ve copied the DECLINED User Voice suggestion from 2 years ago.\u00a0 I guess we can \u201cundecline\u201d it now \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2014\/07\/4617.image_thumb_49A1CD0B.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15737\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2014\/07\/4617.image_thumb_49A1CD0B.png\" alt=\"Image 4617 image thumb 49A1CD0B\" width=\"644\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2014\/07\/4617.image_thumb_49A1CD0B.png 644w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2014\/07\/4617.image_thumb_49A1CD0B-300x136.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 644px) 100vw, 644px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In Team Foundation Server 2013 Update 3, we\u2019ve also included some nice enhancements.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Test Plan and Suite customization<\/strong> \u2013 We\u2019ve modified test plans and suites to be backed by work items so you can use the same customization techniques \u2013 adding fields, designing forms, etc.\u00a0 It also means you can query them like work items and you have versioning\/history of them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Release Management support for PowerShell DSC and Chef<\/strong> \u2013 The TFS release management solution now support writing deployment scripts in PowerShell DSC (Desired State Configuration) or in Chef.\u00a0 Among other things, this means we now have first class support for non-Windows platforms.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Some nice usability fixes<\/strong> \u2013 We\u2019ve tried to slip in some nice customer driven TFS usability fixes into Update 3.\u00a0 A couple of the top ones are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We brought back the ability drill into group membership from within the web based permissions UI.\u00a0 This was a capability we had in TFS 2012 but lost in 2013 and have gotten a lot of feedback on it.<\/li>\n<li>We added a \u201cfilter setting\u201d to the backlog to control whether \u201ccurrent sprint\u201d user stories show up.\u00a0 They used to be included and we got a lot of feedback that people didn\u2019t want them there so we took them away.\u00a0 Then we got a lot of feedback from people who <em>do<\/em> want them there.\u00a0 So now we\u2019ve made it configurable.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Looking forward to your feedback.\u00a0 We\u2019ve already started making progress on Update 4 so expect to hear more from me in the next month or so on the kinds of additional enhancements you can expect.<\/p>\n<p>Brian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we are releasing Visual Studio 2013 and Team Foundation Server 2013 Update 3. 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