Brian Harry's Blog

Bug handling on Connect & Transparency

October 29, 2007 Oct 29, 2007 10/29/07

Brian Harry

I've blogged a fair about over the past couple of years on transparency in our process.  I've also advocated for it a great deal internally.  This post caught my eye today both because it is a great commentary on transparency and a great description of how we handle bugs that customers enter throught the http://connect.microsoft.com ...

Error in VS/VSTS/TFS 2008 Beta 2 expiration date

October 29, 2007 Oct 29, 2007 10/29/07

Brian Harry

Some time ago, I wrote a post about the Beta 2 expiration date saying that it would expire in March 2008.  Well, for the non-VPC version that continues to be true, however, we have discovered that the OS image in the VPC is set to expire on Thurs, November 1, 2007 - only a couple of days from now and well before the March date that we ...

Working with our big downloads

September 7, 2007 Sep 7, 2007 09/7/07

Brian Harry

We've move to a model where we do pre-releases way more often than we used to.  The downside is that they are still really big and it can take a lot of time to do downloads.  Brian Keller recent wrote a post about how to minimize the difficulty and time spent downloading.  Read here for more info...  http://blogs.msdn.com/...

All VS 2008 Beta 2 languages have now been released

August 29, 2007 Aug 29, 2007 08/29/07

Brian Harry

If you've been waiting for French or German (or Russian .NET Framework), you can get them now! Visual Studio Team System 2008 Beta 2 Team SuiteJapanese:  http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=428C076F-E3EF-4290-9FF4-F6FD8F180B7D&displaylang=ja Chinese (Simplified): http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...

Awesome Posters!

August 13, 2007 Aug 13, 2007 08/13/07

Brian Harry

One of our partners in South Africa has been creating VS and Team System oriented posters for a while now.  I blogged about this 9 months or so ago but they just keep producing them and I thought it was worth another mention.  These posters are really handy roadmaps to various aspects of the product.  They have dozens of them ...

The Japanese version of VS 2008 Beta 2 is now available

August 10, 2007 Aug 10, 2007 08/10/07

Brian Harry

日本のみなさん、おはようございます。 (image) Part of our work leading up to shipping a product is investing in getting ready for localized versions of it.  Today we released the Japanese version of Beta 2 and are looking forward to feedback on how well we've done.  Are any fields clipped?  Is the translation ...

Rosario August CTP Released!

August 4, 2007 Aug 4, 2007 08/4/07

Brian Harry

Today we released the first CTP release for the Rosario version of Microsoft Visual Studio Team System.  You can download the VPC to try it our here.  You can read more detail about it here. As you'll recall from previous postings, our 2 "pillars" for Rosario are "Testing & Application Quality" and "Business Alignment".  ...

TechEd South Africa

August 1, 2007 Aug 1, 2007 08/1/07

Brian Harry

For that subset of you for whom it is relevant, It looks like I'm going to be at TechEd South Africa this year.  It's October 21st to the 24th.  I'm still finalizing plans but expect to be doing a couple of talks on TFS and VSTS.  I've never been to the African continent before and am really looking forward to seeing it.  ...