Vault 5.0 and Fortress 2.0 released

Posted by Jeremy Wed, 29 Jul 2009 21:21:15 GMT

I’m excited to announce the release of Vault 5.0 and Fortress 2.0. The feature set should come as no shock, given that I’ve been posting betas for months, so I’ll skip the reiteration of the feature set.  Check the release notes for Vault or Fortress to see all the details.  Instead, for those of you who are following this, I’ll point out a couple of little things that got mentioned in the Beta 2 post, but they make me very happy.

Shelving in Eclipse or Visual Studio.  Let’s say I’m reading Pride and Prejudice in Visual Studio instead of working.  My boss comes in to tell me to get to work, so I create a shelveset so that I can continue reading my favorite book at home. 

BeforeShelve

When I get home, I fire up Visual Studio, and unshelve the book, and it opened the document and scrolled to the line I was on when I shelved it. 

AfterUnshelve

This also works with source files, for those of you who don’t use Visual Studio as your text reader :)

Line History searches through VSS versions.  I love Line History, and I love VSS Handoff, so it’s not surprising that I love the intersection of these two features.  It was a very gratifying moment when I looked up a change that I made in 2002 (back when we were still using VSS).

LineHistoryInVSS

All this history is still integrated as a first-class citizen, but the Handoff takes minutes, and you don’t end up with VSS history clogging up your Vault repository.

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Beta 2 is out!

Posted by Jeremy Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:25:22 GMT

I’m happy to announce that the final beta release of Vault 5.0 and Fortress 2.0 is available for download now.  You can get the beta from the usual places.  Beyond the release notes, there were a few things that I think need to be highlighted.

The web client redesign.  At last, our web client looks are brought up to the level of its functionality.  You may not realize this, but our old design was the result of a contest back in 2004.  The old design hadn’t aged well, and became more and more difficult to maintain.  The new design is easier to use, and easier to maintain.  For a tour of the new web client, check out Paul’s Blog.

Click to edit.  Work item fields can now be edited in place.  Just click the field, and start editing.

Restore open documents and scroll positions on an unshelve.  Now, when you shelve files from Visual Studio or from Eclipse, we record the scroll position and restore it when you Unshelve. Talk about picking up right where you left off!

Line History now searches through VSS history, too.  It’s no secret that I love Line History, and I’m thrilled that we can now use this awesome feature to make Handoff data seamlessly integrated.

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