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For months the team has been working on migrating our msdn blogs off of the "old" blogging system we used onto WordPress.  In the last few days, my blog was migrated and is now running on WordPress.  The system we had been using had gotten pretty out of date and clunky.  I haven't used WordPress a lot but it generally has a good reputation ...

VS Team Services Update – Jan 25th

This week we are deploying the changes from sprints 93 and 94 (they spanned Christmas/New Years so we combined them into a single deployment.  You can read the release notes for all the details.As usual, as I write this, the updates have not yet made it to all tenants but they will over the next day or two.This deployment has an unusually...

Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio Team Services roadmap update

Today we are making a major update to our “Features Timeline” for TFS and VSTS. To remind you, the Features Timeline provides an indication of some of the bigger, higher demand things we are working on and when we think they will be delivered – both on premises in TFS and in the cloud in VSTS (formerly VS Online). A few caveats… It ...

Is your stomach bigger than your eyes?

For the past several months, friends have been bugging me to write another farm post – it’s been quite a while.  The problem is that I haven’t been able to think of anything terribly interesting.  Most farm work does make for a good blog post – chores, feeding, cutting hay, repairing fences, …  Just not great content ...

VS 2015 Update 1 and TFS 2015 Update 1 are available

Today we shipped the final releases of Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 and Team Foundation Server 2015 Update 1. Here are the release notes: There were very few changes between the last release candidates and this final release – just a hand full of bug fixes.  Check out the release notes for all the new stuff in this update...

News from Connect(); 2015

Today is our annual Fall developer Connect(); event in New York.  I’m here talking about a ton of new stuff that we’re doing to help developers adopt agile DevOps practices.  Normally I would write a detailed post with screenshots and descriptions highlighting the news.  However, this time, I’m going to take a ...

VS 2015 Update 1 RC & TFS 2015 Update 1 RC2 Released

We just released our final “pre-release” of Update 1 for Team Foundation Server 2015 and Visual Studio 2015.  Lots of useful links are available here: You’ll find the installation links at the top of the release notes pages.As I was looking over things (and finding a few issues with the release notes page...