I’ve seen a lot of companies asking themselves whether they want to host their own ALM solution or pay someone else to do it.  Most are still deciding to do it for themselves but I see more people deciding to let someone else do it every year. ...

Today we are releasing the final TFS Beta 2 test patch.  This patch is for the client and has a few nice bug fixes in it.  Again, if you get the chance to try it out, please let me know if you have any issues. http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio...

I've written extensively in the last few weeks about the feedback we've gotten from our Beta 2. I hope you can tell we've heard your feedback, we are taking it very seriously and are committed to shipping a product that you love. I'm grateful for all...

One of the things we got a lot of performance feedback on in Beta 2 was the debugger.  We’ve been working hard on it since Beta 2 and it’s looking much better.  There was no single thing that was a magic bullet that made everything go faster...

As you know we’re a big believer in dogfooding the products we are building and TFS has a long history of it.  Dogfooding of TFS 2010 started even before Beta 1 shipped, both inside our team and with a few other groups in Microsoft.  One of...

GamCom have just released a video demo of Talmia , their innovative process workflow tool for Team Foundation Server. The video shows how an example development process can be implemented so that work items are created and updated automatically along...

I got some data on some of the changes the languages team has made from Scott Wiltamuth (PUM of the languages team). The first change is in the message dispatching priority that we do in keystroke processing.  As a user is typing code that involves...

Since I posted my offer to hook you up with one of the Super-Limited Community Technology Preview builds, I have received a number of requests. I'm happy to do it but I want to clarify one thing. A few people seem to have the assumption that the build...

Last night, I got the following question in email and it seemed like a good one and worth sharing the answer more broadly. I'm just a bit curious about why you have an NDA for your SLCTP's. The purpose of NDA's is to prevent people talking about all the...

About a week ago the Blend team upgraded to our SLCTP1 build (Super-Limited Community Technology Preview).  We’re starting to get some anecdotal feedback from them and we’re planning to do another survey this coming week that will include everyone...