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VS 11 & TFS 11: A beta version on February 29th 2012
Feb 24th
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:
- 5 users max,
- can only be installed on SQLServer Express,
- only “single server” install mode,
- no Sharepoint integration,
- no Reporting Services integration,
- the web interface only proposes the Agile taskboard (no backlog management or feedback feature),
- no TFS proxy.
Note that this version will be compatible with Visual Studio Express, Microsoft is now proposing a comprehensive development tools package for “unprofessional” developers! Of course it will be possible to upgrade an Express platform to add users through the purchase of CAL (Client Access License) or add the missing functionality by switching to the full version of TFS 11 :)
The second addition is Team Foundation Service. It is a TFS version which runs on Azure and is actually in test phase at http://www.tfspreview.com. This version on Azure has, for now, all TFS features except Sharepoint, Reporting Services and build (the build can be installed on-premises and connected to TFS on Azure).
Il come back in futur post in details on new features of Visual Studio 11 and Team Foundation Server 11. While waiting here are a list of links on this beta version:
- Introduction to Visual Studio 11 Beta (Visual Studio blog)
- Visual Studio 11 product line (Visual Studio site)
Carpe Diem.
VS vNext: News on vNext of TFS and VS
Sep 17th
This week was rich in announcement both on the next version of Windows and the next versions of Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server. Here is a short summary of what was said on our favorite development tools:
Cette semaine a été riche en nouvelle tant au niveau de la prochaine version de Windows que des futurs versions de Visual Studio et Team Foundation Server. Voici un petit récapitulatif des annonces faites pour nos outils de développement préférés :
- A preview of Team Foundation Server sur Windows Azure is available. You need a invitation code to subscribe so, if you’re interested, follow the blog of Brian Harry who will certainly propose some more code in the future Here’s the URL of the service: http://tfspreview.com.
- Visual Studio 11 Developer preview and Team Foundation Server 11 Developer preview are available. I’ll come back on those in future posts. Meanwhile you can download them here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/fr-fr/vstudio/hh127353
- If you do not want to mess (or lose time ) with the install of those previews, Brian Keller published a virtual machine ready to use Here’s the link: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/briankel/archive/2011/09/16/visual-studio-11-application-lifecycle-management-virtual-machine-and-hands-on-labs-demo-scripts.aspx
That’s all for now. I’m going back to my VMs installation to prepare my next posts on TFS 11 and VS 11 installation experience and their new features
Carpe Diem.
