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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 | 2 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 | 6 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 | 1 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 | 3 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 | 4 Comments
Wednesday, December 12, 2007 8:05 AM

Visual SourceSafe 2005 update released

Yesterday we released an update to VSS 2005 to address customer reported issues and ensure that it will work seamlessly with VS 2008. Any licensed SourceSafe 2005 user can download and install the update here . You can read more about the update on Richard's
Posted by bharry | 2 Comments
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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
Saturday, November 24, 2007 8:19 AM

Update for Visual SourceSafe coming

We are working on an update for Visual SourceSafe 2005 to make it work with VS 2008. We had originally planned to have it available at the same time as VS 2008 downloads went live but we hit a last minute bug that is taking a little time to work out.
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Saturday, November 24, 2007 7:58 AM

Update on Akamai download problems

In my "questions..." post, I referenced a blog post by Richard Hundhausen detailing his bad experience using the Akamai download manager to get VS 2008. It appears it has been a very hot topic in the blogosphere. People have been working not stop to address
Posted by bharry | 15 Comments
Friday, November 23, 2007 7:53 AM

Visual Studio 2008 SDK has been released

Along with the RTM of VS/VSTS/TFS 2008 and .NET 3.5 this week, we have released a compatible version of the Visual Studio SDK . The changes to the TFS portion of this SDK are fairly minimal. We updated all of the TFS samples so that there are both VB
Posted by bharry | 2 Comments
Thursday, November 22, 2007 10:45 AM

2008 Installation Questions

Now that the 2008 wave of developer products has shipped I've seen a ton of questions about downloading and installing them. In this post I'm going to tackle answers to all of the questions I've seen around VSTS/TFS. 1) Hey you guys say you shipped TFS
Posted by bharry | 65 Comments
Monday, November 19, 2007 11:50 AM

VS/VSTS/TFS 2008 are Shipping!

Today (Nov 19th, 2007) we released Visual Studio and Visual Studio Team System (including Team Foundation Server) 2008.  It may seem a bit anti-climactic after all of the CTPs and Betas along the way, however, it's a thrill to have it done, broadly
Posted by bharry | 22 Comments
Tuesday, November 06, 2007 8:16 AM

VS/VSTS/TFS 2008 Release is near!

Yesterday at TechEd in Europe, Soma announced that the 2008 wave of developer products (VS, VSTS, TFS & .NET 3.5) will ship this month (November). We've been saying for a long time now that it would be this year but, despite repeated requests, we've
Posted by bharry | 14 Comments
Tuesday, October 30, 2007 6:58 AM

Final word on unexpected VS 2008 Beta 2 expirations

The final mitigation for our unexpectedly expiring VS/VSTS/TFS 2008 Beta 2 VPC is now in place. Yesterday we uploaded new VPC images with the expirations changed. Again, remember that the issue only affects VPC images. If you installed the actual setups,
Posted by bharry | 11 Comments
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