VS 2012 / TFS 2012 : The Release Candidate is available

VS 2012 / TFS 2012 : The Release Candidate is available

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Since last night Microsoft has release the Release Candidate of it’s new Visual Studio products. Microsoft has also given the product final name, we will now talk about Visual Studio 2012 and Team Foundation Server 2012 (Who would have though :)).

If you’re an MSDN subscriber you can connect to your account and download the ISOs:

If not, you can go to the Visual Studio website and download the web installer:

I’ll come back in a later post on what was added since beta. The most visible even without installing it is the new logo :)

You will be happy to know that Microsoft has listen to the user feedback and reintroduced some color in the UI :)

Carpe Diem.

TFS: Doing rollbacks with TFS 2010 and TFS 11

TFS: Doing rollbacks with TFS 2010 and  TFS 11

I got several time questions about how rollback are done with Visual Studio 2010 and Team Foundation Server 2010; instead of repeating myself i’ve decided to write a post :)

Note : although the screenshots are done under Visual Studio 11, the principals are the same with Visual Studio 2010..

In TFS when doing a rollback or cancel a changeset you will get a new version of your file or files with an Edit status:

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The edit will then be visible in the history after doing a checkin. (you will the be able to rollback your rollback :) )

Update 08/25/2014: corrected output of rollback 22, thanks B€N :)

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VS 11 & TFS 11: A beta version on February 29th 2012

VS 11 & TFS 11: A beta version on February 29th 2012

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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:

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