I suspect many of you will be trying to install VS 2008 Beta 2 in the near future. If you run into any problems, you can go to the following MSDN forums to look for help. The setup team has committed to monitoring them closely as people get over the hump of getting it installed. Visual Studio Orcas Install and Setup http://forums.micros...
With Orcas Beta 2 now available, I'm starting to see questions about the upgrade process and the availability and interoperability of other components (that don't ship in the box with Orcas). Let me try to clear some of this up. VSTS Web Access - This is the new web UI (formerly TeamPlain) that we acquired a few months ago. Our wor...
Here's a long list of download urls to help you quickly find what you need... All the downloads are live!!! Below are links to landing pages as well as individual SKU downloads: · Marketing launchpad http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/ · &...
Unfortunately, I don't have much time to write something up right now, but I wanted to let you know that Orcas Beta 2 is available today. You can download it here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/default.aspx You can also read more about it on Soma's blog here: http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2007/07/26/announcing-the-release...
Yesterday, we signed off on the release of the first CTP for our Rosario release of VSTS. Rosario, as you may recall, is the code name for the release of VSTS that will follow the VS/VSTS 2008 (Orcas) release. We have not (and will not soon) be announcing anticipated timelines for Rosario, so for now you'll have to be happy with getting...
The next set of Team System chats with the product group will be on July 3rd. We're continuing the new tradition of 2 chats at different times to help accomodate people in different timezones around the world. Join the chat on Tuesday, July 3rd , 2007 from 10:00am - 11:00am Pacific Time. Add to Calendar | Additional Time Zones &nb...
A few weeks ago (in a thread about Orcas feedback) I got several questions about GAT/GAX support. As promised I went and talked to the team about their plans and accelerating support. Their plan had been to support Orcas at RTM, but given the feedback you gave and after reviewing the effort involved, they've come back with a plan to do ...
Richard Berg blogged today about the upcoming SourceSafe GDR. Think of it as a service pack for SourceSafe 2005. He's listed all of the bugs that we've fixed and some info on where the reports came from.Brian
OK, I've now processed all of the feedback and written one-off responses to many of the specific questions. I appologize if I missed any. I want to thank all of you who took the time to provide feedback. It is tremendously appreciated and the best way I know of for us to learn and get better. Here I will summarize and play back what I h...
We released Orcas Beta 1 a few weeks ago now and I'm really surprised at how little feedback I've heard. I'm curious what's going on. Are people too busy to mess with it? Has releasing all of the CTPs ahead of time taken the excitment out of playing with the Beta? Is it so unbelievably good that you are stunned into silence?...
