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New Orcas specs published

Today we published a bunch of new Orcas specs.  There are new/updated VS specs and 3 new (and 1 updated) TFS specs.

Folder Diff - The spec for the productized version of the TreeDiff PowerToy feature.  Check it out and see the improvements we're making.

Large Group Sync - A somewhat obtuse feature to improve the behavior when people add 10's of thousands or 100's of thousands of users to TFS.  This happens sometimes when someone from a fortune 500 add some group of everyone in the company.  It used to take forever and if the list was big enough would wedge your server and make you call CSS.  It's greatly improved in Orcas.  In TFS 2005, don't do that :).

Continuous Integration - Perhaps the most exciting improvements coming in Orcas are the ones we've made to TFS Build, including out of the box support for continuous integration.  This "spec" gives you an idea of what we are thinking the user experience will be.

We've got quite a few more TFS specs on the way.  My goal is to publish another spec or two every couple of weeks.  The holidays threw a bit of a wrench in things in December but I'm hoping to get on that cadence.  As always, we're eager to hear what you think.

Thanks,

 Brian

 

Published Friday, January 05, 2007 4:43 PM by bharry

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# Nuove specifiche di Orcas...

Friday, January 05, 2007 5:42 PM by Lorenzo Barbieri @ UGIblogs!

# Nuove specifiche di Orcas...

Friday, January 05, 2007 5:45 PM by Lorenzo Barbieri @ UGIblogs!

# re: New Orcas specs published

Saturday, January 06, 2007 12:13 AM by Grant Holliday

The 'specficiation' dropdown on connect.microsoft.com doesn't have the new specs listed yet.

Grant

# re: New Orcas specs published

Saturday, January 06, 2007 6:00 AM by bharry

I've forwarded this on to the feedback site owners.  Hopefully it will get fixed in the next couple of days.

Brian

# re: New Orcas specs published

Tuesday, January 09, 2007 2:46 AM by Steve Hall

There are two broken links:  the Partial Page Rendering link is pointing to the ListView spec, and the CE.Forms.SystemSettings Extensions link is pointing to the XLinq spec.

Us spec whores are waiting with specless abandon...

# New and Notable 134

Wednesday, January 10, 2007 1:47 PM by Sam Gentile

Completely buried with two projects and the main one is going to CTP #2 at a major back in Paris/London

# Orcas TFS Build CI spec

Thursday, January 11, 2007 5:09 AM by Andrew Stopford's Weblog

Noticed from Sam's post that new Orcas specs are available . Amongst these are specs for improvments

# re: New Orcas specs published

Thursday, January 11, 2007 6:12 AM by bharry

I've passed on the feedback about the broken links.

Yes, Andrew, we think the notifications feature for CI (beyond the build completion notifications that we have now) won't fit in Orcas so we are thinking of doing something as a PowerTool.  We'll have more on that in the coming months I hope.

Brian

# VSTS Links - 01/11/2006

Thursday, January 11, 2007 7:00 AM by Team System News

Tim Hibbard on TFS Solutions - Access to the path BuildLog.txt is denied and TF42004. Brian Harry...

# Nueva versión CTP de “Orcas”

Thursday, January 11, 2007 2:15 PM by Luis Fraile

Noticia rápida, ya está disponible la nueva CTP de la siguiente versión de Visual Studio, con codename

# re: New Orcas specs published

Saturday, January 13, 2007 7:35 PM by Joshua Flanagan

Considering VSTS was priced (and presumably designed) for use in a large enterprise, its surprising that a bug like the "large group sync" made it into the release. That is a major limitation - I'm glad to hear it will be resolved.

# re: New Orcas specs published

Sunday, January 14, 2007 8:24 AM by bharry

Large, is of course, in the eye of the beholder.  In V1 we tested it with groups containing 10's of thousands of users.  We found that a few companies added their entire organization (in some cases accidentally) which resulted in groups over 100,000 users.  For Orcas we are testing up to 200,000 users and don't have any reason to believe it won't go higher.  If at some point we hit another cieling, we'll fix that too but I hope 200,000 users will hold people for a while :)

Brian

# Some useful VSTS links to start 2007 with...

Monday, January 15, 2007 2:35 PM by Sajee's WebLog

2007 is a mere 2 weeks old and yet it's been an interesting one so far for VSTS. Brian Harry has been

# In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows... New Orcas Specs Published

Tuesday, January 16, 2007 9:42 AM by Public Sector Developer Weblog

Seneca is amazingly prescient. I believe he had inside information on Aero prehaps. Then again, maybe

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