Jeff Beehler's Blog
Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate (1 week later)
Last week, we published the Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate. Since then we’ve seen a strong...
Date: 02/15/2010
“Going live” with the Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate
We are pleased to declare that the Release Candidate of Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4...
Date: 02/08/2010
Rangers ship VS2010 readiness materials
Some of you might have noticed the tidal wave of shipping that happened last week. The Rangers have...
Date: 01/18/2010
Fireside chat with Radio TFS
Martin Woodward and Mickey Gousset called me at home a few days ago to talk about Visual Studio, TFS...
Date: 01/02/2010
Tell us about VS2010 Beta2
Last week we shipped Beta 2 for broad distribution. Many of you have already sent us comments...
Date: 10/29/2009
Visual Studio 2010 Launch Countdown Sidebar Widget
With Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 out the door we’re getting very excited about wrapping the project up...
Date: 10/23/2009
“Going live” with Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2
We are pleased to declare Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4 a “go live” release...
Date: 10/19/2009
Updates to Visual Studio UI
Jason Zander, the Visual Studio general manager, just posted a follow up to his post regarding the...
Date: 05/14/2009
VS2008 AJAX Profiling Extensions
Our team, in conjunction with Microsoft Research, have been working on a power tool known as...
Date: 05/13/2009
Free VSTS training in Seattle May 21st
Our friends Jeff Levinson and Steve Borg from Northwest Cadence are offering a free day of VSTS...
Date: 05/03/2009
Resources to learn more about Visual Studio Team System 2010
While the various Visual Studio teams are working on our first beta release, I thought I’d point out...
Date: 04/10/2009
Gartner SCCM Magic Quadrant Ranks Microsoft VSTS a Leader
A few weeks ago Gartner published their 2009 Magic Quadrant for Software Change and Configuration...
Date: 04/10/2009
Team Test 2008 Quick Reference Guide now available
The Rangers have shipped again! (Faithful readers know just how much I love saying that). This...
Date: 04/09/2009
Check out the updated Visual Studio look
For Visual Studio 2010 we have revamped the development environment to provide a cleaner, easier to...
Date: 02/25/2009
Welcome Willy, our newest Team System Ranger
I’m pleased to welcome Willy-Peter Schaub to the Team System team as our newest Ranger. Willy...
Date: 02/08/2009
Check out our updated website
The next update to our Team System website has been made with an eye towards helping make things...
Date: 02/08/2009
Listen to me on Radio TFS
The Radio TFS folks called me at home just before the holidays and spent the better part of an hour...
Date: 12/29/2008
Updated Visual Studio Team System 2008 Trial VPC images available
For those of you that want to try out Visual Studio Team System 2008 including Team Foundation...
Date: 12/26/2008
Visual Studio sales site gets a facelift
Check out the updated sales site for Visual Studio at https://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio. On the...
Date: 12/21/2008
TFS Branching Guide 2.0 published
I’m starting to sound like a broken record, but the VSTS Rangers have shipped again! This time, in...
Date: 12/21/2008
Check out the new Community tab on the Team System website!
As I mentioned recently, Sharon Elkins is our new website manager for Team System and she’s starting...
Date: 12/11/2008
Dealing with the Team System 2010 CTP expiration
If you’ve been using the Team System 2010 Community Tech Preview VPC, you’ve probably noticed that...
Date: 12/09/2008
Team System has a new website manager!
A few months I grew my team by one person when we brought Sharon Elkins on board to manage the Team...
Date: 12/07/2008
System Center 2007 Management Pack for TFS 2008 is available!
The Team System Rangers have delivered again! This time it’s a comprehensive Management Pack...
Date: 12/07/2008
Thoughts on Exit Criteria
On occasion I write an email to the Team System team that steps back and tries to explain a little...
Date: 11/24/2008
Check out the new Team System 2010 CTP
I’m really excited about the news today that we’ve released the latest Team System 2010 Community...
Date: 10/27/2008
Rangers ship SQL load testing tool
The Team System Rangers have shipped again! This time they’re have built on the success of the...
Date: 07/13/2008
Using Team System for SharePoint development
From all indications, Microsft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) adoption is growing quickly as it...
Date: 07/13/2008
Guidance Explorer: enabling discovery, composition and consumption of high quality development guidance
Several of our MVPs just recently “discovered” the Guidance Explorer project run by our very on...
Date: 07/06/2008
Case studies galore!
Sometimes I get so heads down in the business of shipping our next version that I forget for a...
Date: 07/06/2008
Welcome Grant!
Grant Holliday, a former Team System MVP, recently joined our team focused on adoption of TFS...
Date: 07/06/2008
Team System community update posted
Chuck Sterling, our Team System community lead, has posted a copy of his monthly update on community...
Date: 07/06/2008
Localized hotfix pages now available
We have hit another milestone on our journey to improve our process around delivering hotfixes to...
Date: 07/05/2008
Cameron’s back
Cameron Skinner has recently reappeared on the blogging scene and he’s on fire! Check out a...
Date: 07/05/2008
Tools for Agility - A white paper by Kent Beck
Ajoy Krishnamoorthy, a product manager on our team, recently worked with Kent Beck to publish a...
Date: 07/05/2008
PDC2008
As you may have heard, registration is now open for the next Microsoft Professional Developers...
Date: 07/05/2008
Upcoming APLN Agile Leadership Conference
The next leadership summit for the Agile Project Leadership network (APLN) is scheduled to be held...
Date: 07/05/2008
Seattle Team System User Group meeting this week
Steven Borg, one of our local Team System MVPs, is scheduled to talk at the next meeting of the...
Date: 06/22/2008
New case study for Team Foundation & Teamprise
We just released a joint case study based on the success that Thomson Reuters has had using Team...
Date: 06/06/2008
Check out good stuff from TechEd 2008
This was a good week for Team System at TechEd 2008 in Orlando. I would recommend that you...
Date: 06/06/2008
early release of Database Edition updates
Gert Drapers, group manager for the team responsible for the Team System Database Edition, recently...
Date: 06/04/2008
Two positions open on my team
In addition to my day job of managing the next release of Team System, I have responsibility for...
Date: 06/02/2008
Radio TFS
After getting my first Zune in March for my birthday, I’ve really enjoyed getting familiar with the...
Date: 06/02/2008
Check out Brian the Build Bunny
Martin Woodward, one of our many Team System MVPs, just recently posted a blog article about a...
Date: 06/02/2008
New edition of TFS Times
Paul Hacker, one of our 72 (!) Team System MVPs, has recently published a new edition of his very...
Date: 05/26/2008
Load Test Report Generator now available on Codeplex
The Team System Rangers have shipped again! Last Friday, we published our Ranger Load Test Report...
Date: 05/13/2008
Team System 2008 Licensing White Paper now available
Kevin Kelly, a Team System Product Manager, announced today that at long last the Team System 2008...
Date: 05/13/2008
Watch James Whittaker talk about Software Testing
James Whittaker has recently joined the team responsible for producing Visual Studio Team System...
Date: 05/09/2008
More Rosario specs available
While I hope many of you are now or soon to be actively using Visual Studio Team System 2008, we’re...
Date: 04/24/2008
March 2008 TFS Power Tools now available
Check out Brian Harry’s post on the latest release of the increasingly popular (and increasingly...
Date: 04/21/2008