{"id":1951,"date":"2013-09-09T10:05:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T10:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/bharry\/2013\/09\/09\/visual-studio-2013-tfs-2013-rc-is-available\/"},"modified":"2013-09-09T10:05:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T10:05:00","slug":"visual-studio-2013-tfs-2013-rc-is-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/visual-studio-2013-tfs-2013-rc-is-available\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Studio 2013 &#038; TFS 2013 RC is available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we released the Release Candidate for the VS 2013 suite of products.&nbsp; This is a &ldquo;go-live&rdquo; production worthy version and will likely be the last publicly available build before we RTM.&nbsp; I strongly encourage you to try it out and let us know if you find any blocking issues.&nbsp; The clock is ticking and time is running out for us to make any more changes before the product ships.\nI&rsquo;m not going to write about it extensively since there will be so many other people who do.&nbsp; Instead, I&rsquo;ll mostly provide you links to other places you can read more.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You can start by <a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkId=306566\">downloading<\/a> the bits while you read.<\/li>\n<li>The best high level overview is probably on <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/somasegar\/\">Soma&rsquo;s blog<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>You can provide feedback on <a href=\"http:\/\/connect.microsoft.com\/VisualStudio\">Connect<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com\/563d1003-f0ed-498f-8ef9-f8ee1aac39fe\">VS Feedback tool<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/visualstudio.uservoice.com\/forums\/121579-visual-studio\">UserVoice<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>You can ask questions in our <a href=\"http:\/\/social.msdn.microsoft.com\/Forums\/vstudio\/en-US\/home?category=visualstudio%2Cvslanguages%2Cvstfs%2Cnetdevelopment%2Cvsarch\">forums<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>You can get <a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/?linkid=9832942\">support<\/a> if you need it for production issues.<\/li>\n<li>You can also checkout the &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/vs2013\">What&rsquo;s New<\/a>&rdquo; page.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Along with the RC release today, we announced the VS 2013 RTM (Oct 18th) and launch dates (Nov 13th).\nI&rsquo;m also very happy to note that we are making a build of Windows 8.1 available along with the Visual Studio RC.&nbsp; You can read more about that on the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.windows.com\/windows\/b\/bloggingwindows\/archive\/2013\/09\/09\/download-windows-8-1-rtm-visual-studio-2013-rc-and-windows-server-2012-r2-rtm-today.aspx\">Windows blog<\/a>.\nThere&rsquo;s obviously a lot to know about everything we are releasing today.&nbsp; If&nbsp; there&rsquo;s something you can&rsquo;t find in all the resources I linked to, let me know and I&rsquo;ll track it down for you.\nThanks,<\/p>\n<p>Brian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we released the Release Candidate for the VS 2013 suite of products.&nbsp; This is a &ldquo;go-live&rdquo; production worthy version and will likely be the last publicly available build before we RTM.&nbsp; I strongly encourage you to try it out and let us know if you find any blocking issues.&nbsp; The clock is ticking and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":244,"featured_media":14617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-1951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-visual-studio"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Today we released the Release Candidate for the VS 2013 suite of products.&nbsp; This is a &ldquo;go-live&rdquo; production worthy version and will likely be the last publicly available build before we RTM.&nbsp; I strongly encourage you to try it out and let us know if you find any blocking issues.&nbsp; The clock is ticking and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/244"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}