DevDiv Servicing Team Blog

Sustained Engineering blog dealing with servicing releases/updates for DevDiv products.

October 2010 Security Update

The .NET Framework SE team has released one security bulletin as part of the monthly patch Tuesday...

Date: 10/12/2010

September 2010 out of band ASP.NET Security Update

DevDiv SE has released an out of band security bulletin today because we determined that this is...

Date: 09/27/2010

Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Office Runtime Update

Folks, DevDiv SE released one non-security update today for Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Office...

Date: 08/23/2010

Visual Studio 2010 Updates

Folks, DevDiv SE has released a couple of updates for Visual Studio 2010 and Visual Studio Team...

Date: 08/23/2010

August 2010 Security Updates

DevDiv SE has released one security bulletin as part of the monthly patch Tuesday cycle today....

Date: 08/10/2010

How to detect different versions of the Microsoft .NET Framework

Folks, We often see requests from customers writing apps based on the .NET Framework asking how they...

Date: 08/05/2010

.NET Framework 4 now available on Windows Update/WSUS

The .NET Framework 4 which has been available on the Microsoft Download Center since 4/12/2010 is...

Date: 06/22/2010

.NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 Update

DevDiv SE released one non-security update today as part of the monthly non-security refresh: .NET...

Date: 06/22/2010

Supportability of .NET Framework 1.1 on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2

Based on customer feedback the team has published a clarification regarding the Microsoft.NET...

Date: 06/21/2010

Catch up on recent updates

Folks, this is a catch-up post listing some additional updates we released over the last couple of...

Date: 06/09/2010

June 2010 Security Updates

DevDiv SE has released one security bulletin as well as updates for a security advisory as part of...

Date: 06/08/2010

October 2009 Security Bulletins

Earlier today DevDiv released 2 security bulletins as part of the monthly patch Tuesday cycle....

Date: 10/13/2009

What would you like to see on the DevDiv SE Team blog ?

Hi, It's been a while since the DevDiv Sustained Engineering (Servicing) team has posted to this...

Date: 08/22/2009

DDCPX is now DDE

Hello folks, As you might have noticed the name of this blog has been updated to reflect the change...

Date: 06/12/2007

Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Beta Update

Hello folks, I am a Program Manager with Developer Division and I am driving Visual Studio 2005...

Date: 10/24/2006

VS2003 SP1 is live on the web and off to manufacturing

This one certainly covered a bunch of ground, people and calendar time. Special thanks to Natalia...

Date: 08/16/2006

Visual Studio .NET 2003 Service Pack 1 Release Date

Visual Studio .NET 2003 Service Pack 1 is just about ready. Very near the end of our sign off...

Date: 07/17/2006

Tip for doing code reviews with TFS Shelvesets

A common complaint when doing code reviews with TFS is that people think they have to Unshelve the...

Date: 06/29/2006

Best Practice Analyzer for ASP.Net Alpha Released!

From Joe Morel's Blog: One of the most difficult parts of ASP.Net 2.0 application creation is...

Date: 06/29/2006

Building a Best Practices Analysis Tool for Asp.Net deployment

Hello all, I am gathering Rules/Best Practices recommended when developing ASP.NET applications and...

Date: 04/11/2006

.NET Framework 1.1 Servicing Releases on Windows Update for 64-bit Systems

Among the most confusing stories that we have asked .NET Framework customers to understand has been...

Date: 03/28/2006

Ever wonder what we look like?

A key goal of the community work at Microsoft is putting a face on this software empire. One way to...

Date: 03/23/2006

Visual Studio .NET 2003 Service Pack 1 Beta Announcement

Microsoft is committed to making customers successful with Visual Studio and the .NET Framework. As...

Date: 03/20/2006

TFS Administration Tool Updated to Support RC of TFS

Updated binaries have been posted on GotDotNet for the TFS Administration Tool, making the tool...

Date: 03/01/2006

TFS Administration Tool Beta 1 Released!

Fast on the heels of the MSBee CTP, I'm pleased to announce the availability of the TFS...

Date: 02/10/2006

MSBee Beta 1 - Released

The DDCPX Aftermarket Solutions team just released the first MSBee Beta! You can download the Beta...

Date: 02/09/2006

DevDiv Servicing Discussion Area

Please use the comments area below as an area to discuss and ask questions about Visual Studio and...

Date: 01/27/2006

Developer Aftermarket Community Solutions Forum

Have questions about any of the tools that we've announced on this blog, such as the MSBee tool that...

Date: 01/16/2006

Solutions Team Developer Blog

Kannan Sundararajan, a developer on the Developer Aftermarket Community Solutions team, has joined...

Date: 01/16/2006

MSBee CTP Release

The holidays were busy here in the DDCPX team, and the Developer Aftermarket Community Solutions...

Date: 01/05/2006

MSDN Forums Answer Marking

One of the major community channels we have been working on in the DDCPX team is the new MSDN...

Date: 11/28/2005

Team Foundation Server User Management Tool

One of the exciting things about working in the aftermarket solutions space is having the...

Date: 11/08/2005

What's Next...?

Every Christmas Day we cook a rib roast on our BBQ - and even as much as we look forward to the...

Date: 10/24/2005

Tool to convert .vcproj into msbuild project files

If you are a big fan of msbuild, you already know that you cannot use msbuild natively to build VC++...

Date: 09/30/2005

Welcome to DDCPX!

I am Russ Ryan, a Product Unit Manager (PUM) here in the Developer Division at Microsoft. You know,...

Date: 09/29/2005

After-Market Solutions

What are After-Market Solutions for Developer products?As Russ explained in the first post, one of...

Date: 09/29/2005