{"id":941,"date":"2014-09-22T10:26:09","date_gmt":"2014-09-22T10:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/bharry\/2014\/09\/22\/visual-studio-and-tfs-2013-4-ctp2-is-available\/"},"modified":"2014-09-22T10:26:09","modified_gmt":"2014-09-22T10:26:09","slug":"visual-studio-and-tfs-2013-4-ctp2-is-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/visual-studio-and-tfs-2013-4-ctp2-is-available\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Studio and TFS 2013.4 CTP2 is available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we released the second CTP (community technology preview) of Visual Studio 2013 Update 4 and TFS 2013 Update 4.&nbsp; You can read about the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/visualstudio\/archive\/2014\/09\/22\/visual-studio-2013-update-4-ctp-2-now-available.aspx\">VS changes on the Visual Studio blog<\/a>.&nbsp; You can <a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkId=510314\">download the CTP<\/a>.&nbsp; Or you can check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/2994375\">release notes<\/a>.&nbsp; Also here&rsquo;s the link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/bharry\/archive\/2014\/09\/03\/vs-amp-tfs-2013-update-4-ctp-1-is-available.aspx\">blog post I wrote on CTP1<\/a>.\nTFS improvements in this CTP include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Work item performance improvements<\/li>\n<li>The ability to maximize the rich text editor and the comments on the history control<\/li>\n<li>Improve hyperlink experience in the rich text editor<\/li>\n<li>Increased the number of items you can have in the first and last columns on the kanban board<\/li>\n<li>Addition of the &ldquo;stakeholder&rdquo; license change<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The addition of support for stakeholder licensing is certainly the largest change in this CTP.&nbsp; You can read more about <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/bharry\/archive\/2014\/07\/09\/upcoming-vs-online-licensing-changes.aspx\">stakeholder licensing<\/a>.&nbsp; And you can go to the &ldquo;Access Levels&rdquo; tab in the TFS web access settings page in this CTP to see what it looks like.\nI think our next Update 4 release will be our release candidate so we&rsquo;re getting close to the end.<\/p>\n<p>Brian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we released the second CTP (community technology preview) of Visual Studio 2013 Update 4 and TFS 2013 Update 4.&nbsp; You can read about the VS changes on the Visual Studio blog.&nbsp; You can download the CTP.&nbsp; Or you can check out the release notes.&nbsp; Also here&rsquo;s the link to the blog post I wrote [&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-941","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 released the second CTP (community technology preview) of Visual Studio 2013 Update 4 and TFS 2013 Update 4.&nbsp; You can read about the VS changes on the Visual Studio blog.&nbsp; You can download the CTP.&nbsp; Or you can check out the release notes.&nbsp; Also here&rsquo;s the link to the blog post I wrote [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941","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=941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941\/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=941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}