{"id":83,"date":"2015-02-23T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/bharry\/2015\/02\/23\/vs-2015-ctp6-and-tfs-2015-ctp1-shipped-today\/"},"modified":"2019-02-16T22:46:45","modified_gmt":"2019-02-16T22:46:45","slug":"vs-2015-ctp6-and-tfs-2015-ctp1-shipped-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/vs-2015-ctp6-and-tfs-2015-ctp1-shipped-today\/","title":{"rendered":"VS 2015 CTP6 and TFS 2015 CTP1 shipped today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we shipped Visual Studio 2015 CTP6 and TFS 2015 CTP1.&nbsp; You can download both here:\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.visualstudio.com\/downloads\/visual-studio-2015-ctp-vs\">Download Visual Studio 2015 CTP 6 and Team Foundation Server 2015 CTP<\/a>\nYou can also read the release notes to learn more about them:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.visualstudio.com\/en-us\/news\/vs2015-vs\">Visual Studio 2015 CTP 6<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.visualstudio.com\/en-us\/news\/tfs2015-vs\">Team Foundation Server 2015 CTP<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please submit bugs through <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/connect.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\">Connect<\/a><\/span>, suggestions on <a href=\"http:\/\/visualstudio.uservoice.com\/forums\/121579-visual-studio\">UserVoice<\/a> and quick thoughts via <a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkId=517102\">Send-a-Smile<\/a> in the Visual Studio IDE.\nI know many people have been waiting a long time to see the first CTP of TFS 2015.&nbsp; I&rsquo;ve even had quite a few people unsure of whether or not to believe that we actually intended to ship it :).&nbsp; We did.&nbsp; But, I keep telling people, that if you want to see what&rsquo;s coming in TFS 2015, the best way to do so is check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visualstudio.com\/products\/what-is-visual-studio-online-vs\">VS Online<\/a>.&nbsp; Although it&rsquo;s not 100% fidelity to what will be in any given on premises release, it&rsquo;s pretty close and is a great way to see it evolve every 3 weeks without having to go through any installations.\nAlthough you can read much more detail in the release notes, let me call out a few notable areas of significant improvement\/changes in TFS 2015.\n<strong>Extensibility<\/strong> &ndash; TFS 2015 brings the full set of REST, OAuth and Service Hooks capabilities we&rsquo;ve been developing in VS Online and enables the same <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visualstudio.com\/explore\/vso-integrations-directory-vs\">rich set of integrations<\/a>.&nbsp; This also brings with it some replumbing that, I think, will accelerate progress &ndash; particularly in the work item tracking area.\n<strong>Agile tooling improvements<\/strong> &ndash; The list is just too long.&nbsp; We&rsquo;ve made a ton of advancements in the past 6 months and most of them are in this CTP.\n<strong>Licensing changes<\/strong> &ndash; This brings the remaining licensing changes &ndash; stakeholder, UAT, etc to on premises and better aligns our on-prem and cloud licensing than ever before.\n<strong>Roll up of TFS 2013 Updates<\/strong> &ndash; And of course, TFS 2015 includes all of the features that were rolled out as part of the TFS 2013 wave of updates.&nbsp; For example, we did a huge number of improvements to our Testing and Test Case Management experiences in 2013 Updates that are rolled into TFS 2015.\n<strong>Git<\/strong> &ndash; We&#8217;ve got a few Git improvements in this CTP but we&rsquo;ve been rolling out most of our Git work in TFS 2013 Updates so there&rsquo;s not a lot additional here.&nbsp; We&rsquo;ve got more coming before RTM though.\n***Update Feb 24***\n<strong>Build.vNext<\/strong>.&nbsp;&#8211; I originally wrote that Build.vNext was not included in this CTP.&nbsp; I was mistaken.&nbsp; It is included but was missed from the release notes.&nbsp; Please check it out.&nbsp; You can learn more about how to get started at: <span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Segoe UI;font-size: 9pt\"><a title=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/vsopreview\" href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/vsopreview\"><span id=\"140694166.0\" style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Segoe UI;font-size: 10pt\">https:\/\/aka.ms\/vsopreview<\/span><\/a><\/span>\nI know many people are waiting with bated breath to see the new Team Project rename.&nbsp; I&rsquo;m afraid it&rsquo;s not in this CTP.&nbsp; It&rsquo;s being worked on and we still expect to have it in TFS 2015 but it wasn&rsquo;t complete in time for this CTP.&nbsp; Hang in there just a little bit longer.&nbsp; I&rsquo;m hopeful it&rsquo;s going to get into our next TFS 2015 preview release.<\/p>\n<h3>Orientation<\/h3>\n<p>I want to take a step back from what&rsquo;s in the release to orient things.&nbsp; First, keep in mind that this is our first TFS 2015 CTP.&nbsp; It is *not* a &ldquo;go-live&rdquo; release.&nbsp; More than anything it was a forcing function for us to practice getting ready to ship TFS 2015.&nbsp; If you want to check it out &ndash; feel free.&nbsp; It should install fine but I also thoroughly expect you will find some bugs if you dig deeply.&nbsp; Over the next few months we&rsquo;ll continue to refine it and will ship a &ldquo;go-live&rdquo; preview for use in a production environment.&nbsp; Until then, VS Online is still a great way to stay up to date on the latest developments.\nThis CTP is *not* feature complete.&nbsp; There&rsquo;s actually quite a bit that wasn&rsquo;t ready in time for this &ndash; some of that, you&rsquo;ll already see on VS Online.&nbsp; There&rsquo;s Team Project rename that I already mentioned, quite a bit of more GIt improvements, more Agile project management improvements,&nbsp;and much, much more.\nFWIW, I&rsquo;ve even stopped thinking of TFS 2015 as a particularly major milestone.&nbsp; I don&rsquo;t think in terms of major releases any more.&nbsp; For on prem, I think in terms of waves or generations.&nbsp; The TFS 2015 RTM will trigger the beginning of the TFS 2015 wave.&nbsp; That wave will include, I think, at least 2 or 3 updates with substantial new features in each one.&nbsp; Some of the stuff that we&rsquo;re currently incubating on VS Online (like the new Code Search limited preview) won&rsquo;t make it into TFS 2015 RTM but should show up in one of the 2015 Updates.&nbsp; It will be a steady stream of new improvements that you qualify for by upgrading to TFS 2015.\nI look forward to hearing your feedback and can&rsquo;t wait to get TFS 2015 finished so we can accelerate delivery in the TFS 2015 wave.\nThanks,<\/p>\n<p>Brian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we shipped Visual Studio 2015 CTP6 and TFS 2015 CTP1.&nbsp; You can download both here: Download Visual Studio 2015 CTP 6 and Team Foundation Server 2015 CTP You can also read the release notes to learn more about them: Visual Studio 2015 CTP 6 Team Foundation Server 2015 CTP Please submit bugs through Connect, [&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":[5,4],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-tfs","tag-visual-studio"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Today we shipped Visual Studio 2015 CTP6 and TFS 2015 CTP1.&nbsp; 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