{"id":3101,"date":"2012-07-16T09:49:18","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T09:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/bharry\/2012\/07\/16\/team-foundation-service-updates-716\/"},"modified":"2024-05-01T13:01:13","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T20:01:13","slug":"team-foundation-service-updates-716","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/team-foundation-service-updates-716\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Foundation Service Updates 7\/16"},"content":{"rendered":"

This sprint is the smallest service change in a while.\u00a0 It was the last sprint for really wrapping up our TFS 11 on-premises work so most of our effort went into that.\u00a0 I\u2019m expecting that we\u2019ll see a significant increase in new service capabilities over the next couple of months.<\/p>\n

So, for the most part, this deployment has a bunch of miscellaneous bug fixes.\u00a0 There\u2019s really one significant change \u2013 some navigation restyling and one new feature.<\/p>\n

Navigation restyling<\/h3>\n

Before 7\/16, the service navigation experience looked like this\u2026<\/p>\n

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About a month ago we launched a new \u201cWelcome\u201d experience to learn about the Team Foundation Service.<\/p>\n

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You\u2019ll notice some difference.\u00a0 Among them, the welcome experience has color \"Smile\"\u00a0 See, we did listen to all that feedback about colorless UI.\u00a0 The navigation section at the top is also styled differently.<\/p>\n

We set out this sprint on making some progress on consistency between the experience and addressing some styling aspects we didn\u2019t like.\u00a0 This will be an iterative approach, so as we get more feedback, we\u2019ll continue to refine it.\u00a0 We\u2019ve started with the main nav experience (we haven\u2019t updated the admin experience yet and in some ways, we\u2019ve leap frogged the Welcome experience).\u00a0 The goal is to get some feedback on this and then apply the \u201cgood changes\u201d to other areas.\u00a0 So, when you visit your project on Team Foundation Service after 7\/16, it will look like this.\u00a0 Some comments\u2026<\/p>\n

1) We added some color to the top nav bar.\u00a0 The welcome site will stay purple and the project will be blue.\u00a0 This corresponds to Visual Studio where VS has a purple style when no project is loaded and a blue one when you load a project.<\/p>\n

2) We removed the \u201ctab look\u201d and went to a more modern, chromeless look like we did in the welcome site (though we did add an underline to highlight the tab you are on).<\/p>\n

3) We reorganized some of the elements, like project drop down, help menu, etc to align a little better with how we see the overall experience evolving.<\/p>\n

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We\u2019ve also beautified the menus a little bit.<\/p>\n

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Ultimately style has a big personal taste component to it.\u00a0 We\u2019re certainly interested in any feedback you all have and as I said, we expect to iterate on it a bit.\u00a0 One thing I\u2019ve noticed is that it looks better on IE9 than IE8.\u00a0 There are some subtle differences that we need to do some work to improve.<\/p>\n

Time zone and Account Owner<\/h3>\n

The other significant thing we did this sprint was to add settings for time zone and account owner.<\/p>\n