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As you may know, we are offering a "go-live" agreement for Beta 2. As part of that, we are making support available. Of course news groups and other avenues are available but I mean a live person on the phone helping you (assuming the hours match up - standard US business hours). Sorry, we can't support 24x7 until the product ship...
Jeff Beehler wrote a good post on what it means to "go-live" on Beta 2 and steps you need to take in order to get support. The only thing I'd add to his post is a little tempering of "high standards of quality". I want everyone to understand that it is a Beta. If you are going to go live on it, you need to be prepared to live with...
We've been working on a bunch of training content - videos, labs, etc to help you get up to speed on the 2010 wave of products. Check out http://r.ch9.ms/vs2010b2f for videos and a like to the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 Training Kit download.Brian
It's probably a bit early yet. But once you've had a change to play with Beta 2 and look at the docs, the doc team here at MS would like some feedback from you so that they know where to focus their remaining work. They've created a survey to help them collect your feedback.Brian
All the great stuff you've been reading about for the past few days is now available for you to try out. Check out: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=151797 Brian
Lots of people are trying out TFS 2010 now and they want to import their 2005/2008 data. Here are some good things to know as you think through this: The TFS installation guide is a great resource in helping you understand your upgrade options: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=2d531219-2c39-4c69-88ef...
We've worked hard to make sure TFS 2010 is usable from all clients that can access TFS 2005 and 2008 in order to make your upgrade to TFS 2010 easier. Unfortunately, the changes in 2010 are significant enough it will require patches/updates to older clients to work fully. The follow post explains the compatibility philosophy and details...
We've worked hard to make sure TFS 2010 is usable from all clients that can access TFS 2005 and 2008 in order to make your upgrade to TFS 2010 easier. Unfortunately, the changes in 2010 are significant enough it will require patches/updates to older clients to work fully. The follow post explains the compatibility philosophy and details...
There’s going to be a ton of content coming out over the next few days and weeks to help you understand what all is in the 2010 release and how to get started with it. One great source of information is Channel 9. Brian has already put up one new video on installing and getting started with the Beta: https://channel9.msdn.c...
The big news, along with the announcement of VS 2010 Beta 2 availability, are all the licensing changes that go along with it. I won’t go into all of them here because it’s pretty long. I just want to communicate the philosophy and the high points. Our pre-sales web sites will have more detailed information for you. Ov...