Richard's new book 'Visual Studio 2012 Cookbook ' is now available. It's a great broad overview of the new capabilities in VS 2012 and is a good way for an existing VS user to get up to speed on all the new stuff. Read more about it on Richard's blog...

Brian Keller just recently released a new VS/TFS 2012 VM and hands on lab.  It’s a handy way to kick the tires and check things out. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/briankel/archive/2011/09/16/visual-studio-11-application-lifecycle-management-virtual-machine...

I’ve been meaning to write about this for a while but somehow the days just slip by and I never find the time. Team Foundation Service If you are a reader of my blog then you’ve been seeing my posts on our service updates for months now.  But let...

It’s that time again!  Today we deployed the results of our latest sprint (Sprint 35) to Team Foundation Service . You can read the release notes here: http://tfspreview.com/en-us/home/news/2012/aug-27/ As usual, it might take a few hours for all...

Distributed Version Control (DVCS) has a growing following. It enables a set of workflows that can be very handy and Git is an increasingly popular DVCS solution. Today, we are announcing Git-tf, a solution that enables you to work locally with a Git...

Today, we enabled a new kanban board Team Foundation Service.  Check out the news here for more information about  the experience and how we plan to evolve it. I also wanted to mention that our plan is to include the kanban support in our first...

Today we deployed a service update with our sprint 34 work. As part of this, we have introduced a new "News" section on the tfspreview.com site. Here's a link to today's news: http://tfspreview.com/en-us/home/news/2012/aug-6/ . Unfortunately, we don't...

The Rangers have been hard at work lately putting together guidance for good practices for organizing real world test efforts and how our tools can help.  If you’ve got a significant test effort and are using the Visual Studio tools, I recommend...

A month or so ago, I recorded a brief interview with Tim Huckaby. Here's a link if you want to check it out: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/jj553284.aspx Brian

One of our MVPs has written a book on VS 2012 ALM.  It’s not quite available yet and I haven’t had a chance to look at it closely, but Mathias has been working closely with us for a long time and I expect it will be a good book.  Here’s a link...

This sprint is the smallest service change in a while.  It was the last sprint for really wrapping up our TFS 11 on-premises work so most of our effort went into that.  I’m expecting that we’ll see a significant increase in new service capabilities...

After we shipped VS 2010, we shipped a “Testing Feature Pack” that included support for testing Silverlight 4 applications using UI automation.  Our full intent was to incorporate that support into VS 2012.  Unfortunately, there were so many...

I’ve written in the past about some of the work we’ve done on performance in TFS/VS 2012.  I’m happy  to see in the feedback that many people have noticed.  We’re in the process of wrapping things up for this release and I got an update...

Well, the last 3 weeks were busy. We announced our Azure Continuous Deployment support and removed the invitation codes to open the service up to everyone. As I wrote in my Spring wrap up post , we’ve kind of emptied the pipeline of all of the big...

Visual Studio has a variety of ways to test your code. – one of them we call “Coded UI”. Coded UI testing is useful when you want to automate a full functional test, as a user would do it, against the UI of your application. You usually...

There are a couple of new books out now – one on overall application lifecycle management with Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server 2012 and the other a deeper drill into TFS.  These were written by some of the best authors I know – combined...

The Patterns & Practices team has just published a document on best practices for implementing Continuous Delivery using VS & TFS 2012.  It’s a great overview of how to think about the problem and how to implement it.  Check it out…...

OK, so maybe I didn’t need to tell you that.  Or maybe, you observe that it isn’t quite true because summer officially starts in about a week.  But then that’s not really what I mean. I’ve written little tidbits about our transition from an...

Since we announced the Team Foundation Service Preview at the BUILD conference last year, we’ve limited the onboarding of new customers by requiring invitation codes to create accounts. The main reason for this has been to control the growth of...

A couple of years ago, we partnered with TeamDevCentral to set up one of the first hosted Team Foundation Server clouds. It was the very beginning of our thinking on what a cloud based ALM solution might look like. Since then Rational eyes, the company...

Clemens Reijnen recently blogged about a new Windows Phone app for working with TFS and the TMap testing methodology.  Read more about it on Clemens’ blog here: http://www.clemensreijnen.nl/post/2012/05/11/TMap-for-TFS-Windows-Phone-7-App-available...

I've seen a spike in requests for invitation codes following our announcement of the new TFS/Azure Continuous Delivery work at Azure Day this week. I figured, I'd put out another multi-use invitation code just to minimize the wait for additional people...

We’ve finally gotten to shipping an update to VS 2008 SP1 to fully support TFS 11 – including the the hosted service http://www.tfspreview.com .  VS 11 has supported it from the beginning, of course.  We’ve released updates for VS 2010 SP1 along...

I've mentioned in a couple of posts recently how busy it's been around here lately. One of the many things keeping us busy over the past several weeks has been upgrading the main Developer Division Team Foundation Server to TFS 11. We've been using TFS...

Here's a link to some "chalk talk" video's on yesterday's Azure announcements. Among them is a video from our very own Aaron Bjork on the TFS integration that we've done. Check it out for a more colorful explanation than yesterday's blog post :) http...