{"id":4803,"date":"2005-09-21T22:37:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-21T22:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/buckh\/2005\/09\/21\/team-foundation-beta-3-has-been-released\/"},"modified":"2005-09-21T22:37:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-21T22:37:00","slug":"team-foundation-beta-3-has-been-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/team-foundation-beta-3-has-been-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Foundation Beta 3 has been released!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today we signed off on Team Foundation Beta 3!  If you used beta 2, beta 3 is a vast improvement.  Beta 3 should hopefully show up on MSDN in about two days.  You may remember that beta 3 has the go-live license and will be supported for migration to the final release version 1<\/a>, which means this is the last time you have to start from scratch.<\/p>\n

With beta 3, single-server installation is once again supported!  I know many people didn’t install the July CTP because of the lack of a single-server installation.  With each public release, installation has gotten easier and more reliable, and this is the best installation thus far.<\/p>\n

I wrote about what changed between beta 2 and the July CTP<\/a>.  That’s still a good summary.  Between the July CTP and beta 3, we fixed a lot of bugs, further improved performance across the product, improved the handling of authenticating with the sever using different credentials (e.g., you’re not on the domain), improved installation, and more.<\/p>\n

If you have distributed teams, be sure to try out the source control proxy server.  It’s one of the features we have to support distributed development<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While you are waiting on TFS to show up, you’ll want to make sure you already have Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite Release Candidate<\/a> (build 50727.26) and SQL Server 2005 Standard (or Enterprise) Edition September CTP<\/a> (build 1314.06, which uses the matching 2.0.50727.26 .NET framework)).<\/p>\n

TFS beta 3 is build 50727.19.  The reason the minor number is different than the VS RC minor number is due to the fact that TFS beta 3 was built in a different branch.  The major build number stopped changing at 50727 (July 27, 2005 build) for all of Visual Studio, and only the minor number changes now.<\/p>\n

Here’s a list of my recent posts that are particularly relevant to beta 3.<\/p>\n