Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server 2013 are available!

Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server 2013 are available!

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.

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Blog update

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:

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.

Team Build: TFS Build Extensions – January 2012

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.

TFS 2012: Team Foundation Service is RTWed !

TFS 2012: Team Foundation Service is RTWed !

If you have followed the news around Team Foundation Server 2012 you know that Microsoft has proposed a preview version of its tool on Azure. Since yesterday Team Foundation Service is now officially RTM at the following URL:  http://tfs.visualstudio.com !

The service will continue to improve every 3 weeks which is the sprint cadence of the DevDiv team. For now here is what you can get:

  • Free access up to 5 users,
  • Unlimited number of Team Project,
  • Version control,
  • Work Item tracking,
  • Agile planning tools (Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog et Taskboard),
  • Feedback management,
  • Azure build service (still in preview)

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TeamBuild: TFS Build Extensions – August 2012

TeamBuild: TFS Build Extensions - August 2012

We just published a new stable version of 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.

WiqAdmin: Release 1.1.1.0

WiqAdmin: Release 1.1.1.0

WiqAdmin is a command line utility to administer work item queries for TFS 2008 and TFS 2010. I just released a new version with the following new features:

  • Added “copy” command for TFS 2010 to copy queries from one team project to another.
  • Updated “export” command to support exporting multiple queries using an input file containing the queries to export.
  • Updated “delete” command to support deleting multiple queries using an input file containing the queries to delete.

You can download the 1.1.1.0 release for TFS 2008 and TFS 2010 here : http://wiqadmin.codeplex.com/releases/view/90663

I’d also like to thank jzserai for joining the project and helping with this release.

Next release will support TFS 2012.

Carpe Diem.

TFS 2010: A standalone installer for the TFS 2010 SP1 client Object Model API

TFS 2010: A standalone installer for the TFS 2010 SP1 client Object Model API

A small post to inform you that Microsoft released a standalone installer for the Team Foundation Server 2010 SP1 client Object Model API! You can found it on the Visual Studio Gallery here:

http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/a37e19fb-3052-4fc9-bef7-4a4682069a75

Before this installer, if you wanted to develop an application that interacts with TFS you needed to install Team Explorer to have those few needed DLLs… this isn’t the cas anymore :) Of course licencing doesn’t change and your user will still need a TFS CAL.

A TFS 2012 version will be available with the RTM.

Carpe Diem.

VS 2012 / TFS 2012 : The Release Candidate is available

VS 2012 / TFS 2012 : The Release Candidate is available

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Since last night Microsoft has release the Release Candidate of it’s new Visual Studio products. Microsoft has also given the product final name, we will now talk about Visual Studio 2012 and Team Foundation Server 2012 (Who would have though :)).

If you’re an MSDN subscriber you can connect to your account and download the ISOs:

If not, you can go to the Visual Studio website and download the web installer:

I’ll come back in a later post on what was added since beta. The most visible even without installing it is the new logo :)

You will be happy to know that Microsoft has listen to the user feedback and reintroduced some color in the UI :)

Carpe Diem.

VS 11 & TFS 11: A beta version on February 29th 2012

VS 11 & TFS 11: A beta version on February 29th 2012

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Good news, the next version of Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server are coming in Beta with a Go Live licence on February 29th (the same date that the Windows 8 consumer preview :) ).

Here is a list of the products which where announced for Visual Studio 11:

  • Visual Studio 11 Professional
  • Visual Studio 11 Premium
  • Visual Studio 11 Ultimate
  • Visual Studio 11 Test Professional
  • Visual Studio 11 Team Foundation Server
  • Visual Studio 11 Team Foundation Server Express
  • Visual Studio 11 Team Foundation Service

Compared to the 2010 line we have two new additions. The first, Team Foundation Server Express is a free edition of TFS with the following limitations:

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TeamBuild 2010: TFS Build Extensions v1.2

TeamBuild 2010: TFS Build Extensions v1.2

We just published a new stable version of 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.