{"id":2281,"date":"2013-05-08T04:47:06","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T04:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/bharry\/2013\/05\/08\/tfs-2012-2-power-tools-update-available\/"},"modified":"2024-04-17T12:45:25","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T19:45:25","slug":"tfs-2012-2-power-tools-update-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/tfs-2012-2-power-tools-update-available\/","title":{"rendered":"TFS 2012.2 Power Tools update available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday we released our update to the TFS 2012 Power Tools to work with VS\/TFS 2012.2 (Update 2).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com\/b1ef7eb2-e084-4cb8-9bc7-06c3bad9148f\">TFS 2012 Power Tools<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com\/45b4e378-5b81-4186-9b7f-21cc5c2f743d\">TFS 2012 Build extensions<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com\/b5b5053e-af34-4fa3-9098-aaa3f3f007cd\">MSSCCI provider (32 bit)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com\/3c7b6813-2617-4d5f-9a1d-5ad980cab5d2\">MSSCCI provider (64 bit)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yes, I see the irony in announcing this the day after announcing the first \u201cgo-live\u201d Update 3 CTP <a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2014\/02\/8228.wlEmoticon-smile_58CD4724.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15586\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2014\/02\/8228.wlEmoticon-smile_58CD4724.png\" alt=\"Image 8228 wlEmoticon smile 58CD4724\" width=\"19\" height=\"19\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 It took us longer than we had hoped to get the Power Tools ready.\u00a0 However, we\u2019ve made a key change to mitigate this issue in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Our Power Tools setup has traditionally had a block to prevent it from working with the next version of VS (which is why the Power Tools from Update 1 wouldn\u2019t work with Update 2).\u00a0 This is a bit of a hold-over from before we started doing the regular update cadence.\u00a0 At that time, it was pretty likely that we\u2019d change something in the 2 years between updates that would break the Power Tools and we\u2019d work hard to have new releases of Power Tools ready before the final release of VS\/TFS.<\/p>\n<p>In the new world of frequent updates, it\u2019s much less likely that we break something and trying to synchronize the 2 releases is much harder.\u00a0 So, we\u2019ve removed the block and we fully expect that these Power Tools will continue to work fine with Update 3.\u00a0 I\u2019ve just finished installing it on my VS 2012.3 RC and everything looks to be working well.<\/p>\n<p>There really aren\u2019t significant changes in the Power Tools release.\u00a0 Aside from removing the block, we fixed a hand full of bugs and removed the back\/restore Power Tool \u2013 because the feature was moved into the \u201cofficial product\u201d in Update 2.\u00a0 So, the main reason to install this release is just to get it to work with VS 2012.2.<\/p>\n<p>I apologize for the delay and the inconvenience it caused.\u00a0 I talked to a number of customers who decided to uninstall Update 2 rather than give up their Power Tools.\u00a0 We\u2019re glad to hear that the Power Tools are valued so much, but at the same time, we\u2019re sorry for forcing you to make a choice.\u00a0 You shouldn\u2019t have to any more.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks,<\/p>\n<p>Brian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday we released our update to the TFS 2012 Power Tools to work with VS\/TFS 2012.2 (Update 2). 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