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Microsoft joins the Eclipse Foundation

This morning at EclipseCon, we announced that we are joining the Eclipse Foundation to further our goals of helping developers build applications regardless of the technology stack choices they make.  At the same time, we announced the new open source project for Team Explorer Everywhere to enable anyone to contribute to creating a great ...

TFS 2015 RC2 and VS 2015 Update 2 RC are available

Today we released release candidate 2 of TFS 2015 Update 2 and the release candidate of Visual Studio 2015 Update 2. As usual I'll mostly comment on TFS and TFS related features and let the VS blog cover broader VS topics. In RC1 of TFS, we already released a ton of new compelling capabilities - like: RC2 brings a ...

HockeyApp available through the Visual Studio marketplace

HockeyApp is a fantastic tool for managing mobile devops.  It includes capabilities to publish apps to a select group of “beta testers”, to collect feedback from those testers and to gather and analyze crash reports.  It works incredibly well for iOS, Android and Windows UWP apps.  As of today, HockeyApp can also be purchased in the ...

Book on Continuous Deployment

Another good book recently hit the virtual shelves - this one on Continuous Deployment with TFS and VS Team Services.  The book covers both the principles and practices around continuous delivery, as well as hands on guidance.  Check it out... USA - http://www.amazon.com/Continuous-Delivery-Visual-Studio-2015/dp/1484212738 UK   - http://...

Team Foundation Server 2015 Update 2 RC 1 is available

Today we released TFS 2015 Update 2 RC 1 and VS 2015 Update 2 CTP1.  I'm going to talk about TFS here and you can go to the Visual Studio blog to learn more about VS. This release of TFS is a "go-live" release candidate.  We will support customers choosing to install it in a production environment.  All the links you should need to learn ...

Visual Studio Team Services Java Tools Challenge

We are committed to making VS Team Services a great solution for all developers – for any application on any platform.  For several years now, we’ve had a concerted effort to build a great solution for Java developers with an Eclipse plugin, a cross platform command line, an IntelliJ plugin, a cross platform build agent and so much more...

A bit more on the Feb 3 and 4 incidents

Please read my post from yesterday first.  Unfortunately I had a family commitment and had to leave early Friday afternoon before the post was complete.  I asked someone on my team to finish it and he did an excellent job and I'm grateful.  There are a few things I would yet like to add to the discussion. First I want to emphasize point #4...

VS Team Services incidents on Feb 3 & 4

We had two serious availability incidents in the past 2 days.  I'm incredibly sorry for the problems that these have caused.  Increasingly we are bringing on more and more customers who rely on this service day in and day out and any significant interruption is entirely unacceptable.  We know it.  We live it.  We breath it and, in the ...

Package Management now available in Europe and Australia

When we first released the Package Management preview in November, it was only available in the US - If your VS Team Services account was in some region other than the US, installing the Package Management extension would fail.  This week, we deployed Package Management instances in Australia and Europe (which are the only other two regions...