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Updates to Visual Studio UI
Jason Zander, the Visual Studio general manager, just posted a follow up to his post regarding the new look for VS2010. Based on popular feedback, we’ve updated the look and feel of our outlining feature. It’ll be available in our upcoming VSTS 2010 Beta 1 release and we hope you take a look and try them out. If you do, please let us hear from you.
Thanks!
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What's New in CLR v4 (.NET Framework 4) from the CLR Development Team Friday July 17th 10:00AM PST
The Microsoft .NET Framework 4 provides many new features for enabling developers to more productively create applications faster than ever. The ability to run side by side with other Framework versions. Many innovations in the Visual Basic and C# languages, for example statement lambdas, implicit line continuations, dynamic dispatch, and named/optional parameters. The ADO.NET Entity Framework, which simplifies how developers program against relational databases by raising the level of abstraction. Enhancements to ASP.NET with New JavaScript UI Templates and databinding capabilities. Improvements in WPF with new Line of Business controls. The addition of parallel programming features. Improvements to Windows Workflow (WF) that let developers. Finally radical new enhancements to Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) such as support for WCF Workflow Services enabling workflow programs with messaging activities, correlation support, durable two-way communication and rich hosting capabilities. Additionally, .NET Framework 4 provides new WCF features such as service discovery, router service, simplified configuration and a number of improvements to queuing, REST support, diagnostics, and performance.
In this session the CLR development team will be focusing on the core infrastructure that makes all this possible with the new features in the Common Language Runtime. In this session the CLR development team will dive into the topics: Garbage Collection, NGEN and Performance.
Date: Friday July 17th
Time: 10:00AM-11am PST
LiveMeeting:
https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/0000000379_103/join?id=76P755&role=attend&pw=p%2C%2Fzk2K%7CM
Conf call:
Toll Free: 866-500-6738
Toll: 203-480-8000
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July ‘09 DevDiv Dogfood Statistics
It’s been about 6 months since I last posted detailed statistics on the DevDiv TFS dogfood server. Overall it’s been a good 6 months. Early this year we got the bulk of our TFS 2010 branching/merging/scaling changes deployed to the server and they’ve made a a big difference in the scalability challenges we were having last fall. The server’s running pretty well these days.
Later this month we’ll be setting up a second DevDiv dogfood server that will mirror chunks of the “main” server and will be used by the Visual Studio Team System team. This new separate server will exist because we need a way that we can use pretty recent builds without disrupting the work environment for the broader division with frequent updates. I’ll write some more about this in the next few weeks as the rollout progresses.
Here are some things that stand out to me when I look at the numbers:
1) Checkins are way up. My guess is that’s due to the fact that we are in an intense bug fixing period right now and we are probably seeing a whole lot of very small checkins.
2) File downloads are way down. Every since we put in the 3 node proxy to handle the download volume, the download numbers just haven’t been relevant any more. I don’t have any good way to collect statistics from the proxies (they aren’t instrumented as well as the main server is). I think this may be the last report that I include download numbers in because they just aren’t very relevant.
3) Files and Work item versions continue their astonishingly steady climb.
4) Workspaces are way up. In the fall and early this year we were aggressively deleting old unused workspaces in preparation for a series of server upgrades we were doing. We’ve pretty much let them go the last several months so they’ve been piling up.
5) I’ve stopped counting files & folders separately. For one thing the number has gotten huge. Secondly the TFS 2010 schema is less optimized to counting the difference. It basically involves a > 600 million row table scan on our data base and that’s way too long.
Users
- Recent users: 3,177 (up 12)
- Users with assigned work items: 4,989 (up 227)
- Version control users: 7,911 (up 2,353)
Work Items
- Work Items: 710,680 (up 148,412)
- Areas & Iterations: 12,383 (up 575)
- Work item versions: 6,358,545 (up 1,478,148)
- Attached files: 382,464 (up 54,459)
- Queries: 52,060 (up 12,947)
Version control
- Files/Folders: 686,121,239 (up 170,909,714)
- Total compressed file size: 5,290,319 MB (up 1,366,710 MB)
- Checkins: 992,015 (up 290,114)
- Shelvesets: 149,293 (up 62,974)
- Merge history: 1,640,660,707 (up 433,097,493)
- Pending changes: 49,692,927 (up 11,520,012)
- Workspaces: 28,678 (up 10,924)
- Local copies: 4,255,597,662 (was 4,040,396,778)
Commands (last 7 days)
- Work Item queries: 1,562,228 (up 606,998)
- Work Item updates: 59,412 (up 10,168)
- Work Item opens: 1,311,384 (up 759,119)
- Gets: 687,643 (up 112,917)
- Downloads: 23,370,988 (down 6,977,693)
- Checkins: 17,576 (up 9,061)
- Uploads: 341,514 (up 174,148)
- Shelves: 8,634 (up 996)
Brian
