{"id":3291,"date":"2012-05-31T12:05:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T12:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/bharry\/2012\/05\/31\/visual-studiotfs-2012-release-candidate-available-today\/"},"modified":"2024-05-10T10:43:32","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T17:43:32","slug":"visual-studiotfs-2012-release-candidate-available-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/visual-studiotfs-2012-release-candidate-available-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Studio\/TFS 2012 Release Candidate Available Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we released the Release Candidate for VS, TFS and .NET (and, of course, Windows also released their RC).\u00a0 You can learn more about it and download using the following links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkId=240162\">Visual Studio Product website<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dl.microsoft.com\/eclipse\/tfs\/preview\">Eclipse update site for the latest Team Explorer Everywhere preview<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkID=237275\">the download page<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/bb386063(v=vs.110)\">Overall summary of changes since the Beta<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/jasonz\/archive\/2012\/05\/31\/announcing-the-release-candidate-rc-of-visual-studio-2012-and-net-framework-4-5.aspx\">Jason\u2019s blog post on the RC release<\/a><\/li>\n<li>For filing bugs<b>: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/connect.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\">Visual Studio and TFS<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/connect.microsoft.com\/lightswitch\">LightSwitch<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/connect.microsoft.com\/blend\">Blend<\/a> Connect sites<\/li>\n<li>For asking questions<b>:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/social.msdn.microsoft.com\/Forums\/en-US\/category\/vsvnext\">Visual Studio and TFS<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/social.msdn.microsoft.com\/Forums\/en-us\/category\/windowsapps\">Windows<\/a> forums<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here are a few notes on the changes in TFS since the Beta.\u00a0 Of course, we\u2019ve done a ton of testing and fixed a lot of bugs.\u00a0 So it should be even more stable than the Beta.\u00a0 Here\u2019s some of the feature enhancements:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Feature Enablement<\/strong> \u2013 This is a new capability in Web Access that allow you to enable new features (like Code Review, feedback, the Taskboard, etc) in your process template without having to break out your favorite text editor and start hand editing your process template XML.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Query launcher in Pending Changes<\/strong> \u2013 We heard the feedback that people wanted an easier way to associate work items on checkin.\u00a0 We added a Queries drop down to pending changes allowing you to launch a query and then drag &amp; drop a work item into the associated work items list.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2012\/05\/7115.image_thumb_6FF32731.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16084\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2012\/05\/7115.image_thumb_6FF32731.png\" alt=\"Image 7115 image thumb 6FF32731\" width=\"644\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2012\/05\/7115.image_thumb_6FF32731.png 644w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2012\/05\/7115.image_thumb_6FF32731-300x140.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 644px) 100vw, 644px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Changes to Version Control context menus \u2013 We\u2019ve received plenty of feedback that some of our context menus \u2013 particularly Solution Explorer and Source Control Explorer, are just too long?\u00a0 Remember the horrible scrolling menus?\u00a0 We made some changes to move some of the less frequently used version control menu items into a tear off menu.\u00a0 Of course if you want them back on the main menu, you can use VS menu customization to move them back.\u00a0 We think, though, this will provide a better default experience for people.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2012\/05\/8105.image_thumb_14A43EA9.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16085\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2012\/05\/8105.image_thumb_14A43EA9.png\" alt=\"Image 8105 image thumb 14A43EA9\" width=\"504\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2012\/05\/8105.image_thumb_14A43EA9.png 504w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2012\/05\/8105.image_thumb_14A43EA9-300x224.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Color, theming, and icons<\/strong> \u2013 We made some additional improvements to our colors and theming \u2013 a particularly good example is Source Control Explorer in dark theme.\u00a0 It looked horrible in the Beta and it looks pretty good in the RC.\u00a0 Some of our tool windows still don\u2019t look good in dark but we\u2019ve tried to get the most common ones for now and will get the remaining ones as soon as we can.\u00a0 There are still a few improvements to come for RTM but we\u2019re getting close.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2012\/05\/4786.image_thumb_798B6F9A.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16087\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2012\/05\/4786.image_thumb_798B6F9A.png\" alt=\"Image 4786 image thumb 798B6F9A\" width=\"644\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2012\/05\/4786.image_thumb_798B6F9A.png 644w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2012\/05\/4786.image_thumb_798B6F9A-300x151.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 644px) 100vw, 644px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Keyboard accessibility for drag\/drop in backlog<\/strong> \u2013 use Alt + Up arrow or Alt + Down arrow to move items around in the backlog.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Improved upgrade guidance<\/strong> \u2013 It\u2019s still work in progress but we\u2019re working hard on untangling the mess of possible upgrade combinations and making it easier for people to choose a path and have clear concise guidance for it.\u00a0 Check the current draft out here: <a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkId=245977\">http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkId=245977<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Improved TFS database restore<\/strong> \u2013 Knowing that a lot of people will choose to take the opportunity to move their TFS server to new hardware as they upgrade to TFS 11, we\u2019ve build some new tooling to make restoring your database easier.\u00a0 You no longer have to figure out how to use SQL Management Studio to restore one database at a time.\u00a0 Our new wizard can easily restore all of your TFS databases at once.\u00a0 You\u2019ll find it on the welcome page of the upgrade wizard.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Improved Task Board for touch<\/strong> \u2013 We\u2019ve made a bunch of improvements to make our task board more touch friendly.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Filter for areas\/iterations in Web Access<\/strong> \u2013 For teams that have lots of areas and iterations in a Team Project, the admin screen\u00a0can be hard to wade through and find what you are looking for.\u00a0 We added a simple filtering ability to filter the list of areas to just the ones that apply to your team.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Team Explorer Everywhere improvements<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Bring more of the new Team Explorer experience &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Moved Pending Changes view into Team Explorer, aligned with VS11 experience including candidate detection,<\/li>\n<li>Implemented Favorites in Team Explorer.\u00a0 Storage of favorites is now in your TFS Server so that are synced between VS, Eclipse and the Web<\/li>\n<li>Provide a quick way to switch workspaces and detect local changed in the new Team Explorer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Easily convert between Server and Local workspaces<\/strong> \u2013 This is now available in both TE and TEE.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shared .tfIgnore capability between VS and TEE<\/strong> \u2013 enabling you to fully share workspaces between VS and TEE<\/p>\n<p><strong>Improved build report<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hosting of web work item form<\/strong> &#8211; Ability to use an embedded version of the work item editor from web access (handy if you have custom work item controls that you don\u2019t want to have to write for both web and Java)<\/p>\n<p><strong>TFSPreview support on latest Mac OS X<\/strong> &#8211; Work-around for a WebKit bug in the latest Mac OS X update (<a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.webkit.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=79206\">https:\/\/bugs.webkit.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=79206<\/a>) which was preventing authentication against tfspreview.com<\/p>\n<p><strong>Support for the latest Eclipse Juno RC1 build on Windows, Mac and Linux<\/strong> \u2013 Juno will RTM in a few weeks and we support it starting now.<\/p>\n<p>As I mentioned above, there will be a handful of additional things coming between RC and RTM but it has settled down pretty well and at this point we\u2019re just polishing of testing and bug fixing and getting ready to ship it.\u00a0 I\u2019m excited to be so close the the end of another really good release.\u00a0 I\u2019ve got a set of posts coming over then next couple of weeks on related announcements (Power Tools, etc).\u00a0 Stay tuned as we tie a bow on this wave of 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