Jeff Beehler's Blog

As the final act in our saga of expiring VPCs , I'm happy to announce that we've reissued VPCs for VS2008 Beta2 with an updated expiration date. You can find the updated links on the VS2008 download page : Visual Studio Team System 2008 Beta 2 Team Suite...

What else can I say? The big day has arrived (read the official word here on Soma's blog ) and we're all very excited to let everyone know that all parts of the Visual Studio Team System 2008 product family are available today for download from MSDN ...

We are pleased to declare Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4 a “go live” release (read more about it on Soma’s blog ). This means that Beta 2 has met high standards of quality for pre-release software, and we are licensing it for developing...

Since posting about the upcoming TFS Release Candidate , I’ve received numerous requests to describe the changes since Beta3. While I can’t possibly remember or report everything that’s changed, I have been able to pull together a reasonable summary of...

If you’ve been using the Team System 2010 Community Tech Preview VPC , you’ve probably noticed that the instance of Visual Studio within the VPC is getting close to expiring.  We expect that it will cease functioning around the end of the year and...

It’s with great pleasure that I announce the availability of the first Rosario CTP (officially known as Microsoft® Visual Studio® Team System code name “Rosario” August 2007 CTP ). Customers can immediately begin downloading the VPC images and learning...

We recently discovered that the VPCs we distributed as part of the VS2008 Beta2 release will expire on Thursday, November 1, 2007, much earlier than we had originally expected. Since the timeout is at the OS level, we cannot automatically extend the timeout...

For folks that need to install Team Explorer 2008, there's a separate download available here: Download Visual Studio Team Explorer 2008 Having the Team Explorer doesn't alleviate the need to also have a TFS Client Access License (CAL) except when using...

Sorry for being so quiet recently…we’ve been busy wrapping up our next pre-release of Team Foundation Server. This means we’ve been fixing tons of bugs (including many reported from you through the forums and Product Feedback center) as well as improving...

Over the past few days I've been doing a lot of research around the issue of the VPCs issued with VS2008 / TFS 2008 Beta2 expiring on November 1, 2007. I wanted to share my findings with everyone. First, because it wasn't clear to me what would happen...

Our team, in conjunction with Microsoft Research, have been working on a power tool known as AjaxView which helps measure the performance of web applications that execute JavaScript inside the web browser. This power tool provides an IIS extension that...

I'm happy to announce that the next Community Technology Preview of Rosario (officially known as Microsoft® Visual Studio® Team System code name “Rosario” November 2007 CTP) is now available. Customers can immediately begin downloading the VPC images...

I recently presented a review of our Team System community programs to the leadership of our business. This was a particularly interesting task for me as less than 3 months ago, I hadn't really spent much time thinking about community but as it became...

I’m happy to announce that Friday afternoon, the Team Foundation team signed off on their Release Candidate build. We have put these bits through a full run of our automated tests as well as updated our dogfood server with them. We have also conducted...

Continuing the long standing tradition, we have just upgraded our team’s dogfood server and subsequently released that same build externally as the December CTP. It’s available to MSDN subscribers via the MSDN download center . Unlike the Beta3...

As more and more people are using TFS, we have been hearing requests to help customers migrate Team Projects from one TFS server to another. Several scenarios are common including: moving a single project from one TFS server to another consolidating projects...

Over 100,000 to be precise. Take a look at Soma's recent announcement of this important milestone for the software factories initiative . It's exciting to see the growing interest in this portion of Visual Studio Team System. For those of you that...

I'm happy to announce that the next Community Technology Preview of Rosario (officially known as Microsoft® Visual Studio® Team System code name “Rosario” April 2008 CTP) is now available. Customers can immediately begin downloading the VPC images from...

I’m happy to announce that this morning at 9am, the Team Foundation team signed off on and shipped Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server! This remarkable achievement has been a long time coming and represents significant effort from literally hundreds...

David Yack , one of our MS Regional Directors and a .NET MVP, tells me there is considerable confusion around the licensing requirements for the software installed on Team System build machines. The best resource available for these sorts of questions...

We are pleased to declare that the Release Candidate of Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4 will be supported as a “go live” release. This means that VS2010 RC has met high standards of quality for pre-release software, and we are licensing it...

Some of you might have noticed the tidal wave of shipping that happened last week. The Rangers have done it again and this time in impressive style with five detailed guides in advance of the VS2010 and TFS2010 releases: Visual Studio 2010 Quick Reference...

To ensure Team Foundation Server is ready to ship, we are asking you to respond to another survey. However , this time there is an added incentive. For the first 300 respondents who install Team Foundation Server RC, complete the survey, and submit certain...

Rob Caron just finished working on a very comprehensive product comparison for Visual Studio 2008. If you're at all interested in understanding the various differences between the following products, take a look: Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition...

Martin Woodward , one of our newest Team System MVPs , was recently asking me about how we manage work within our team and if I'd be willing to share our TFS work item types to give a real world example. Our dogfood usage of TFS is one of my favorite...