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Tuesday, August 12, 2008 8:09 AM

More things to know about installing SP1

I'll let this post be a running list of issues that I hear about as people try installing SP1. So far I've heard mostly good things about the installation process but a few problems as well. Here's a few things to know: 1) If you get a Windows Update
Posted by bharry | 38 Comments
Monday, August 11, 2008 12:31 PM

VS/VSTS/TFS/.NET 3.5 SP1 is shipping!

Following on the release last week of SQLServer 2008 , we are proud to announce the release of Visual Studio/Visual Studio Team System 2008 SP1, Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 and the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1. You can download them here. Bootstrappers
Posted by bharry | 22 Comments
Wednesday, July 02, 2008 10:00 AM

Another innovation in the evolution of Hotfixes

I've been keeping you all abreast of changes in our Hotfix plans.  More than a year ago, we introduced the notion of advertising hotfixes and enabling people to browse and download the hotfixes the find most useful.  Prior to that, the only
Posted by bharry | 4 Comments
Monday, June 30, 2008 10:31 AM

Expression and TFS

Warning - this is early information and is subject to change but the Expression team cleared me to say something about it. We get a lot of feedback from customers who would like more seamless integration between Expression and the rest of their development
Posted by bharry | 15 Comments
Monday, June 16, 2008 3:50 PM

PDC 2008 & precons

Preparation is in full swing for the Microsoft PDC this fall (Oct 27 - 30).  PDCs are the primary event where we talk about the future (as opposed to events like TechEd where we primarily talk about the present).  This PDC promised to have a
Posted by bharry | 5 Comments
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 7:27 AM

Professional Developers Conference this fall

We'll be holding a PDC this fall in Los Angeles Oct 27 - 30. Registration opens today at: http://www.microsoftpdc.com/ . There are many developer oriented conferences that present an opportunity to learn about Microsoft technologies. The PDC is the most
Posted by bharry | 2 Comments
Thursday, May 22, 2008 8:24 AM

1 week left for SP1 Beta feedback

We are nearing the end of the window for collecting Beta feedback on VS/VSTS/TFS 2008 SP1. We are actively taking and working on feedback through the end of the month. I haven't heard too much feedback yet. I know it's hard to get excited about testing
Posted by bharry | 17 Comments
Thursday, May 15, 2008 4:51 PM

2008 Beta Update

A few things that I've run across in the last few days...   1) If you have both TFS and Team Explorer installed on the same server, you may not upgrade just one of them to the SP1 Beta, you would need to upgrade both of them if you want to upgrade
Posted by bharry | 1 Comments
Tuesday, May 13, 2008 3:18 PM

VS/VSTS/TFS 2008 SP1 Beta is now available

Sorry for being a bit late to the game...  I should have posted yesterday but I've been drowning.  As you may already know, we released the Beta for 2008 SP1.  I'm eager to have you try it out and give us feedback.  You can find the
Posted by bharry | 5 Comments
Saturday, April 19, 2008 2:54 PM

A new home for Visual Studio Hotfixes

We've been publishing hotfixes for general download for a year or so now.  Although it has been reasonably popular, it never took off (in terms of publishing or downloads) the way I had hoped.  Part of the problem, I believe, is that the advertising/download
Posted by bharry | 7 Comments
Friday, February 01, 2008 8:32 AM

Some good screencasts

Terry Clancy has some very nice screen casts on his blog. They are worth checking out if you have interest in these areas. He has one on X-Plat development with VS that includes an overview of Teamprise to X-Plat development using TFS and OpenMake for
Posted by bharry | 2 Comments
Tuesday, January 29, 2008 10:09 PM

Comparison of VS 2008 client products

We've gotten quite a few requests from customers over the past couple of months for more information comparing each of the VS 2008 product offerings. We have just published a pretty massive feature comparison to help you pick the product that is right
Posted by bharry | 4 Comments
Tuesday, January 29, 2008 7:00 AM

VS 2008 Design time performance improvements reported

It's nice to see that people in the "real world" are seeing benefits from our efforts to improve performance in VS 2008. http://blogs.conchango.com/johnrayner/archive/2008/01/28/Design_2D00_time-perf-improvements-in-Visual-Studio-2008.aspx Brian
Posted by bharry | 5 Comments
Friday, November 30, 2007 1:48 PM

Revitalizing the VS hotfix downloads

In my last post, I referred to "a couple" of VS2008 initiatives that we are breathing new life into. In that post I talked about our specification sharing process for Rosario. The second one we've been reinvigorating is our publicly available downloads
Posted by bharry | 6 Comments
Friday, November 30, 2007 9:41 AM

VSTS codename 'Rosario' Specifications begin to arrive

During the VS 2008 product cycle, we started several new initiatives to increase transparency.  Some of them continued strong and some of them sputtered.  We are breathing new life into a couple of them.  The first to be reinvigorated it
Posted by bharry | 4 Comments
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