18 Months of Developer Division Releases

Brian Harry

I realized it’s not really right for me to say we’ve shipped 75 releases in the past 18 months and then leave you to guess what they were.  I asked Jeff for the slide he presented and have copied the data here.  It’s roughly categorized.  I’m not promising the categorization is completely accurate or that we haven’t left out anything but it’s close enough.  It would be nice if I had dates and download links for each one but that would be quite a bit of effort for me to track down. On my last post there was quite a lot of commentary on the VS update process and I’ve seen this issue of semantic versioning come up several times.  I have several thoughts on this I’d like to discuss but I think I’ll save that for a new post.

Here’s the list of releases.  This list was put together around the end of June so, it’s the 18 months before that.  This includes all of DevDiv, so it’s not just Visual Studio, it’s .NET, Silverlight, Expression, etc too.

Power Tools

• PerfWatson extension on VS 2010 SP1
• Help Viewer Power Tool
• TFS Power Tools – Dev10 RTM
• TeamTest PowerTools H1CY2010
• Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Power Tools
• Productivity Power Tools – June 2010
• Open XML Package Editor Power Tool for Visual Studio
• Productivity Power Tools – July 2010
• Team Foundation Server Scrum v1.0 RTM
• Feature Builder Power Tool
• TFS Power Tools – Aug 2010
• Visual Basic for Windows Phone Developer Tools – RTW
• Test Attachment cleaner
• Productivity Power Tools – February 2011
• TFS Power Tools – Q1 2011
• Microsoft F# Free Tools Release, VS 2010 SP1 Refresh
• Productivity Power Tools – May 2011

Add Ons / SDKs

• FxCop Release
• Help Viewer 1.0 SDK
• 16.1 – Windows C++ toolset internal release
• TFS Integration Platform release
• Team Explorer Everywhere Java SDK
• URL Rewrite Mode v2
• Windows SDK 7.1
• .NET Framework 4 Server Core Profile RTM
• TFS Integration Platform

Feature Packs

• MultiTargeting Pack for the Visual Studio 2010 Shell
• Microsoft Visual Studio Feature Pack June 2010 – Visualization & Modeling Update
• Microsoft Visual Studio Feature Pack Nov 2010
• TFS Project Server Integration Feature pack – RTM

Release product

• NET Framework 4.0
• VS 2010 SDK
• Dev10 RTM
• Team Explorer Everywhere
• Expression 4
• HPC Pack 2008 R2
• VS 2010 Lab Management
• IronRuby 1.0
• IronPython 2.6.1

Platform Support

• .Net Compact Framework 3.7 for WM7
• Silverlight for Symbian
• Silverlight 4 Runtime & SDK
• Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio – Feb 2010 r
• VSTO v4 & VSTO v3.5
• Windows Azure Tools – May 2010 release
• Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone
• Windows Azure Tools – Nov 2010 Release
• Windows Azure Tools – Mar 2011 release
• Silverlight Toolkit
• VS Tools For Silverlight 4
• WCF RIA Services

Prerelease

• Team Foundation Server Scrum v1.0 Beta
• Microsoft® Visual Basic® CTP for Windows® Phone Developer Tools
• IronPython Tools for Visual Studio 2010 (CTP2)
• Visual Studio® Async CTP
• Visual Studio LightSwitch Beta2
• Silverlight 5 Beta
• TFS Project Server Integration Feature Pack – Beta
• Visual Studio® Async CTP Refresh
• TFS hosted service limited preview
• Visual Basic for Applications SDK 7.1 Beta
• Dev10 RC
• Visual Studio LightSwitch Beta1 (Kitty Hawk)

Servicing

• Silverlight 3 Runtime GDR3
• TFS 2005 Compatibility GDR
• Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Office Runtime GDR
• Silverlight 4 Runtime GDR 0
• Silverlight 3 Runtime Security Update
• VM Prep Tool GDR
• Silverlight 4 Runtime GDR1
• Visual Studio Office 2010 PIA Bootstrapper
• Expression 4 Service Pack: Blend SP1
• Silverlight 4 Runtime GDR2
• Dev10 SP1 Beta – Private VSIP preview
• Team Explorer Everywhere SP1 Beta
• Dev10 SP1 Beta
• HPC Pack 2008 R2 SP1
• Team Explorer Everywhere SP1 RTM
• Silverlight 4 Runtime GDR3
• Dev10 SP1 RTM
• Expression 4 Service Pack: Encoder SP1
• TFS hosted service limited preview – client patch (compat GDR)
• Silverlight 4 GDR4

Brian Harry Corporate Vice President, Cloud Developer Services

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