DevDiv Servicing Team Blog

The .NET Framework SE team has released one security bulletin as part of the monthly patch Tuesday cycle today. Microsoft Security Bulletin MS10-077 - Critical , Vulnerability in .NET Framework Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2160841) Affected products...

DevDiv SE has released an out of band security bulletin today because we determined that this is needed to protect customers as we have seen limited attacks and continued attempts to bypass current defenses and workarounds. Sep 30th Update : Today...

Folks, DevDiv SE released one non-security update today for Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Office Runtime as part of the monthly non-security refresh: Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Office Runtime Update (KB982305) Affected products/components : Visual...

Folks, DevDiv SE has released a couple of updates for Visual Studio 2010 and Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010: Visual Studio 2010 Lab Management Update (KB983578) Affected products/components : Visual Studio 2010 More information about this...

DevDiv SE has released one security bulletin as part of the monthly patch Tuesday cycle today. Microsoft Security Bulletin MS10-060 - Critical , Vulnerabilities in the Microsoft .NET Common Language Runtime and in Microsoft Silverlight Could Allow...

Folks, We often see requests from customers writing apps based on the .NET Framework asking how they might detect the different versions of the .NET Framework in their application setup, the DevDiv SE team has been working on updating documentation...

The .NET Framework 4 which has been available on the Microsoft Download Center since 4/12/2010 is now also available through the Windows Update and WSUS channels starting today. The .NET Framework 4 is available in 2 flavors – the .NET Framework...

DevDiv SE released one non-security update today as part of the monthly non-security refresh: .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 Update (KB982524, KB956250, KB982525, KB982526) Affected products/components: .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 The update has a couple...

Based on customer feedback the team has published a clarification regarding the Microsoft.NET Framework on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. The Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 is not supported on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, so customers are...

Folks, this is a catch-up post listing some additional updates we released over the last couple of months but didnt blog about, hope this helps. Visual Studio Team System 2008 Service Pack 1 Forward Compatibility Update for Team Foundation Server 2010...

DevDiv SE has released one security bulletin as well as updates for a security advisory as part of the monthly patch Tuesday cycle today. Microsoft Security Bulletin MS10-041 - Important , Vulnerabilities in the Microsoft .NET Framework that could...

Earlier today DevDiv released 2 security bulletins as part of the monthly patch Tuesday cycle. Microsoft Security Bulletin MS09-061 - Critical , Vulnerabilities in the Microsoft .NET Common Language Runtime Could Allow Remote Code Execution (974378...

Hi, It's been a while since the DevDiv Sustained Engineering (Servicing) team has posted to this space and we're mulling over resuming this provided we find appropriate topics and content to bring to you. We thought it would be a good idea to share...

Hello folks, As you might have noticed the name of this blog has been updated to reflect the change in the internal name for our team. The DDCPX team is now part of the DDE (DevDiv Engineering) team. We have a new name for the team, but our mission...

Hello folks, I am a Program Manager with Developer Division and I am driving Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 (SP1) Community Readiness. At this time, I would like to extend a warm thank-you to everyone who participated in the SP1 Beta Program...

This one certainly covered a bunch of ground, people and calendar time. Special thanks to Natalia and Michael from DDCPX QA for outstanding performance and diligence in their respective areas. PMs, QA and Devs on all product team were instrumental in...

Visual Studio .NET 2003 Service Pack 1 is just about ready. Very near the end of our sign off testing a bug was found in the VC Runtime that we felt important to get into the Service Pack for customers. This change resulted in a new round of testing and...

A common complaint when doing code reviews with TFS is that people think they have to Unshelve the shelveset to review the code. They really want to see what changed in a file that is being checked in and they can’t find a way to do it. They typically...

From Joe Morel's Blog : One of the most difficult parts of ASP.Net 2.0 application creation is configuring your site correctly. It’s easy enough to actually set the settings, but how do you know the settings are correct? What are the best practices...

Hello all, I am gathering Rules/Best Practices recommended when developing ASP.NET applications and services. The intention is that we will ship a tool (Power Toy) that performs the analysis on your web sites that you could also extend to include new...

Among the most confusing stories that we have asked .NET Framework customers to understand has been .NET Framework 1.1 support on Windows Server 2003 and 64-bit versions of Windows. We've blogged about this before. Today we get to tell you that we've done right by putting .NET Framework 1.1 servicing releases on Windows Update for 64-bit platforms....

A key goal of the community work at Microsoft is putting a face on this software empire. One way to accomplish this is to let you literally see us. At the end of our first SCRUM sprint, about six weeks ago, we taped a Channel 9 video where we demo...

Microsoft is committed to making customers successful with Visual Studio and the .NET Framework. As part of this continuing effort, we are now announcing our target date to release the Visual Studio .NET 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1) Beta this month, (March, 2006) and we also have an estimated RTM release targeted for June 2006. ...

Updated binaries have been posted on GotDotNet for the TFS Administration Tool, making the tool compatible with the most recent version of Team Foundation Server (the Release Candidate). The new release also fixes a bug where the tool would crash if a...

Fast on the heels of the MSBee CTP, I'm pleased to announce the availability of the TFS Administration Tool Beta 1. For anybody who has used any of the betas or CTPs of Team Foundation Server, you are probably aware of the pain around user administration...