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Ever want to create bugs from email?

Someone recently posted an open source copy of a popular internal tool called Mail2Bug. https://github.com/microsoft/mail2bug It will automatically create bugs from an email and then keep the bug up to date with any further conversation that happens on the email thread.  It works for both VS Online and TFS but requires that you use ...

The future of Team Foundation Version control

I've written about this before but it keeps coming back.  From time to time I get the question "Is TFVC dead?"  I guess I have to just keep answering it.  No, it is not. We added support for Git in TFS 2013 so that we'd support the best centralized version control system and the best dvcs in the industry.  We've been ...

Visual Studio Online Update – Mar 10

Sorry for being a little late to the party this week.  We are rolling out our sprint 79 build to VS Online build this week.  You can read more about it here: https://www.visualstudio.com/news/2015-mar-10-vso. I haven't said anything about it explicitly but a while back we made the decision to increase our focus on burning down our ...
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VS 2015 CTP6 and TFS 2015 CTP1 shipped today

Today we shipped Visual Studio 2015 CTP6 and TFS 2015 CTP1.  You can download both here: Download Visual Studio 2015 CTP 6 and Team Foundation Server 2015 CTP You can also read the release notes to learn more about them: Please submit bugs through Connect, suggestions on UserVoice and quick thoughts via Send-a-Smile in the Visual ...

Visual Studio Online Update – Feb 18

Yesterday we began our sprint 78 VS Online deployment.  You can check out the release notes here: http://www.visualstudio.com/news/2015-feb-18-vso.  there are a few nice improvements. It will likely take 4 or 5 days to upgrade all accounts so don’t be surprised if you don’t see the changes in your account right away. I ...

Code Search on VS Online

In November, at our Connect(); event, I gave a sneak peek at a few features/services coming to VS Online, and ultimately Team Foundation Server.  Among the things I demoed was a new source code search feature.  I’m happy to say that the next step in that journey is upon us.  Today, we announced a “limited preview” of our new Code ...

New page on VS Online Agile Tooling

We’re in the process of trying to significantly upgrade the content on our Visual Studio website.  We’re starting with the pages that describe what VS Online is and why you might want to use it.  The first new page is on Agile Tools.  In parallel, we are also working to add some more educational/best practices ...

Licensing changes – User acceptance testing and Agile planning

This is next in a series of licensing and feature changes that I laid out in December.  With this, I think all of the cloud changes (and more) that I described have been made.  Some of the on-prem changes will be available as we release more on-prem updates. User acceptance testing As of this week, you will no longer need a VS Online...

Hiring for VS Online and Team Foundation Server

Microsoft has an extensive recruiting effort.  But we recently decided to try something new to try to find more people who might want to help build VS Online and Team Foundation Server.  We added a Jobs page to visualstudio.com.  It has a little info on what we do and links to job postings on the Microsoft careers site and some ...

Journey to cloud

Transforming a sizeable development organization from "classic" development practices to Agile cloud development is something I talk about a lot.  Bhavik Shah, who used to work on our team, left Microsoft to go to business school and now works a Mckinsey, recently wrote an article on that transformation process.  Buck Hodges, one of ...