It’s official, the RTM version of Visual Studio 2013 and Team Foundation Server 2013 are available to download at the following URL :
http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/eng/downloads
You can also download them from your MSDN account.
New features in Team Build 2013
Microsoft has release a preview of Team Foundation Server 2013 and Visual Studio 2013. You can download this preview here:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39323
In this post i’ll present you what has changed around Team Build. Be careful, the information provided here are based on a preview version and could change in the final version.
Blog update
It’s been a while since I wrote a post on my blog mainly due to lack of time and also because I wanted to do a big update on it which is now done 
After some tests and some customization i’ve found a new theme, Montezuma, and a new plugin to manage multiple languages, WordPress Multilingual Plugin. Additionally i’ve created some categories to order my posts:
- News: for everything about new release, annonces…
- Install and Configuration: for everything about tutoriatips on installing and configuring tools
- Tools and Techniques : for every posts on customization, development or advance use of tools
- People and Process: for everything on processes, methodology and roles associated
- Events and Presentations: for everything about events and presentations
I’ve also decided to add a icon with a color code for each category on each post to help find the subject.
Soon some new post with more technical content
Carpe Diem.
VS ALM: Tips for using Brian Keller’s VS ALM virtual machine
I’m using more and more Brian Keller’s virtual machine for my presentations and demos. This virtual machine can be downloaded on Brian’s blog:
This VM already contains all tools installed and configured and also has some projects with data. To ensure it’s use over time some scripts are run at each startup of the system and can cause some errors when you want, like me, to do your own demos.
TFS: Create a WebDeploy package using Team Build
During my session at the TechDays 2013 a reader of my blog asked me how to generate a WebDeploy package from Team Build. Here’s a post on this subject
Before starting here’s a brief reminder of what WebDeploy is:
WebDeploy is a tool to simplify the deployment of web applications or web sites on IIS servers. With WebDeploy an administrator can export or import a web site as a configurable package or can synchronize IIS servers.
In this post i’ll show you how you can create a WebDeploy package (.zip) based on your web application source files and the result of it’s build.
Team Build: TFS Build Extensions – January 2012
We released a new stable version on the Community TFS Build Extensions. For a list of updates see the download page here.
Your feedback and suggestions are welcomed, use the site’s forum for this
Carpe Diem.