**UPDATED May 18th 2001** - See http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bharry/archive/2011/05/18/update-on-tfs-on-azure.aspx Hosting of ALM in the cloud as software as a service is gradually becoming more and more popular. The vision, of course, is ALM as a seamless...

Jeff recently blogged about some pretty significant improvements that are coming in VS 2010 SP1: http://thirdblogfromthesun.com/2010/10/the-story-of-help-in-visual-studio-2010-part-3/ We've gotten some very strong feedback about local help viewing...

The other day, I alluded to one more TFS hosting announcement coming soon.  Today, I can be more clear :)  HostBasket, has announce TFS hosting with a free offer through the end of the year.  Check it out at: http://www.hostbasket.com/en...

One of our relatively long term hosting partners - Praktik Hosting, has just updated their hosting offering based on our TFS 2010 product and licensing changes. The result is a more affordable service with more features. They are also going beyond just...

I forgot one thing about my experience with the round bale feeder (perhaps I blocked it out :)).  As the calf started running off with the round bale feeder hooked on his hips, he was mooing in a total panicked frenzy.  This, of course excited...

Take my advice.  Don’t get in a round bale ring with a cow. It’s been a while since I’ve written about my alter-ego – farmer Brian.  I’ve been meaning to write a general farm update post and still hope to in the next couple of weeks (with pictures...

Urban Turtle is a TFS add-on that adds a Taskboard and Scrum management abilities to TFS Team Web Access.  I recently visited them in Montreal and got an up close look at the work they are doing and it’s very cool.  I strongly recommend it for...

Yesterday, Discount ASP.net launched a TFS Software as a Service offering.  It’s great to have a large scale, experienced, global hoster providing hosted TFS services.  Their offering starts at $20 per user per month.  You can read more...

I know it’s been a long time coming but it is now here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=97ca3b31-3653-4d60-bdad-3f2017febdc3&displaylang=en I think (and hope) you will find it worth the wait.  It is a substantial upgrade...

OK, maybe not quite but a big step forward.  This week we released a hotfix for both VS and WPF that changes menu placement to eliminate scrolling menus when there actually is enough vertical real estate to avoid them.  In the screen shot below...