Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2, including Team Foundation Server 2008, is now available for download.  As mentioned in Soma’s post, Beta 2, unlike beta 1, includes the “go live” provision in the license, meaning that you can use it in production.  We’ve been using TFS 2008 beta 2 on our main internal dogfood server now for the last two months (well, it’s close to being the same as beta 2 — it’s actually an very early snapshot).  You can check out the stats in Brian’s post.

When Beta 1 was released, I put together a list of links about the Team Build features in Orcas.  If you are looking for a list of links related to TFS 2005, you can find those here (and Jeff has posted links to the TechEd 2007 presentations).

Here’s my updated list of links about Team Build features in TFS 2008 (check out Brian’s post for a list of all TFS 2008 features).  If you have questions or feedback about anything in beta 2, please let us know (either here or in the forum).  We’re anxious to hear what you think!

Overview of features in Build for TFS 2008

• Continuous Integration in Team Build for Orcas
• More on the Orcas features for Team Build
• You can schedule builds in Orcas
• Orcas Team Build Continuous Integration spec is now available

Demos

• Eric Lee’s Orcas Team Build Screencasts
• Channel 9 interview and demo of Orcas Team Build

Vista Sidebar Gadgets to monitor builds (we’re working on an equivlaent to CCTray)

• Monitoring Build Status in your Windows Vista Sidebar
• Team Build Monitor – Vista Sidebar Gadget

Details on how things work, customizations, etc.

• Team Build and Web Deployment Projects
• TFS 2008: Build agent configuration options
• TFS 2008: Some properties that you can use to customize your build
• Orcas: Unattended installation of the build agent
• How to build projects in Team Build that only Visual Studio can build
• Orcas Team Build: WCF web services replace .NET remoting
• Building software against different versions of .NET with MSBuild in Orcas
• Stop piling on when the build breaks: Build checkin policy for Continuous Integration in Orcas
• Incremental gets with Team Build and the list of files that changed
• Orcas Changes
• Determining Whether Tests Passed in Team Build Orcas
• Getting the Modified Files for a Team Build Build in Orcas
• Team Build and Web Deployment Projects
• Team Build and 260+ Character Paths
• Preserving Output Directory Structures in Orcas Team Build
• TfsBuild.rsp and Logging Verbosity in Orcas
• Adding Build Steps to Team Build in Orcas
• Build Type BuildDirectoryPath => Build Agent Working Directory
• Getting the Builds Associated with a Changeset Number

Object Model API

• Orcas Object Model Documentation
• Team Build Object Model – Queueing a Build
• Using the new TFS Build object model in ORCAS
• Stop piling on when the build breaks: Build checkin policy for Continuous Integration in Orcas
• Adding Build Steps to Team Build in Orcas (shows the code used by the built-in task)

Using the API via PowerShell

• Team Build OM thru PowerShell – Example GetAffectedBuildDefinitions
• Queuing a build in PowerShell
• Average Build Size
• Various PowerShell scripts
• Getting the Builds Associated with a Changeset Number