Jeff Beehler's Blog : Profiler

Aggregating popular Team System blogs

jeffbe — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 17:02:53 GMT

Blogs have quickly become a primary means for the Team System team to communicate with our community and as a result we have dozens and dozens of valuable blogs from our team. Because of this distributed approach, it’s hard for our customers to navigate and track all of the blogs related to various topics. We’ve also heard from many customers that they tire of the endless cross posts between our blogs…the echo can sometimes be deafening.

To help us dampen the echo and to provide one place for customers to go to learn about their favorite portions of the product, we are now aggregating the best Team System blog articles on each of the role specific Team Centers. As we learn more about how this approach works (and doesn’t work) for us and our customers, we’ll evolve this program. To get us started, I have identified key posts and posters to help us kick off this program. Please take a look, subscribe to your favorite feeds and let us know if this help you to stay in touch with us better.

Thanks!

jeff

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Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 is available!

jeffbe — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 00:07:49 GMT

I'm sure there will be many more posts (from me and others) but I wanted to get the good word out quickly that Visual Studio Beta 2 is now available for download! It's been a long haul but I'm really excited about what we've achieved. I'm confident it's ready for people to really pick up and use on a daily basis. But what really matters is to hear what you think...please let us hear from you!

For more information, please see Soma's announcement. If you just want to get to the bits, please head to our recently redesigned Developer Center on MSDN.

Woohoo!

Check out the new profiler features

jeffbe — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:06:29 GMT

Ian Huff has started a new blogging series on the new profiler features in Orcas. The profiler is one of the most powerful tools (and perhaps the least understood) in the Team Edition for Developers product. In his introduction, he writes:

Even if you are familiar with Visual Studio Team System you may not already know that a powerful profiler is included with both the Developer and Team Suite editions of that product. If you are not familiar with the profiler you can check out some of my earlier blog entries or TechNotes. In my new series of blogs posts, starting with my first post about the comparison documents, I’m coving all the cool new features added to the profiler that customers will finally be able to see in the upcoming Orcas Beta releases.

Do yourself a favor and read the start of what promises to be an interesting series of posts.

Overview of Visual Studio Team Developer Tools

jeffbe — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 15:59:44 GMT

At TechEd this year, Noah and Abhijit gave one of the highest ranked talks of the week. I had the pleasure of attending in person to experience their enthusiasm first hand. If you weren't able to attend but you have questions about the latest in team development tools such as Profiling, Unit Testing or Code Analysis, I'd highly recommend taking a look at the artifacts from their session.

Comparing performance reports

jeffbe — Wed, 23 May 2007 20:27:13 GMT

I can't believe I haven't seen this blog article before now...I just learned about it from the Profiling team today. Ian's done a great job of describing some new features in the Profiler that are now available with Visual Studio Team System "Orcas" beta 1. In it he writes:

With the recent release of the first Beta for Visual Studio Team System (codename Orcas) customers will get their first chance to see all the great new features that we are adding to the product. For the profiler in particular we’ve added some very cool new features that I’m really happy to finally be able to reveal publicly.

I've had the pleasure to see these new features demoed to me...I'd highly recommend taking a look at these when you have a chance and let us know what you think.