{"id":4293,"date":"2012-09-30T23:50:33","date_gmt":"2012-09-30T23:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/visualstudioalm\/2012\/09\/30\/september-update-ctp-for-microsoft-visual-studio-2012-and-microsoft-visual-studio-team-foundation-server-2012\/"},"modified":"2019-02-14T17:58:10","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T01:58:10","slug":"september-update-ctp-for-microsoft-visual-studio-2012-and-microsoft-visual-studio-team-foundation-server-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/september-update-ctp-for-microsoft-visual-studio-2012-and-microsoft-visual-studio-team-foundation-server-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"September Update CTP for Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 and Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"3\">I have had a couple of people ask me about these new downloads appearing in MSDN downloads simply called something like: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/subscriptions\/securedownloads\/hh442898#searchTerm=CTP%20of%20Quarterly%20Update%20for%20Visual%20Studio%202012&amp;ProductFamilyId=0&amp;Languages=en&amp;PageSize=10&amp;PageIndex=0&amp;FileId=0\">CTP of Quarterly Update for Visual Studio 2012 (x86) &#8211; (English)<\/a>. <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"3\">Unfortunately these downloads contained no description other than: <\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><font size=\"3\"><em>\u201cStatement of Support: This release has not been subject to final verification and validation, and is not intended to be run on production machines.\u201d*<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font size=\"3\">As <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/visualstudio\/archive\/2012\/04\/06\/improving-how-we-update-visual-studio.aspx\"><font size=\"3\">Dave Lubash<\/font><\/a><font size=\"3\"> and <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/bharry\/archive\/2012\/08\/28\/tfs-shipping-cadence.aspx\">Brian Harry<\/a> posted both Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server will shipping new features every quarter(!)\u2026<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"3\">In addition to these production quality updates being released quarterly we will be releasing CTP quality updates with new features <strong>EVERY THREE WEEKS(!!)**<\/strong> -to enable you to look at these features and give us feedback.&#160;&#160; <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"3\">Going forward we will do a better job of letting you know what is in these builds but at a high level the Sept updates contain: <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"4\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/download\/details.aspx?id=34708\">Feature Improvement: Visual Studio 2012<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><font size=\"3\">Unit Test Grouping and Filtering in Test Explorer Window <\/font><\/li>\n<li><font size=\"3\">Code Map \u2013 add to map from editor, sxs map <\/font><\/li>\n<li><font size=\"3\">IntelliTrace <\/font>      \n<ul>\n<li><font size=\"3\">Added additional support for custom IntelliTrace Events <\/font><\/li>\n<li><font size=\"3\">Enabled reading AVIcode to collect IntelliTrace Event Data <\/font><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><font size=\"3\">Mixed Managed\/Native Debugging Support for Windows Store Apps <\/font>      \n<ul>\n<li><font size=\"3\">Addressed issues with stepping through native code while mixed debugging <\/font><\/li>\n<li><font size=\"3\">Improved inspection of native WinRT objects <\/font><\/li>\n<li><font size=\"3\">Enabled remote debugging <\/font><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><font size=\"3\">Improvements for loading symbols <\/font><\/li>\n<li><font size=\"3\">Faster and more responsive symbol loading experience for local\/remote native debugging and remote managed debugging<\/font> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/download\/details.aspx?id=34708\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"image\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px;border-right-width: 0px;border-bottom-width: 0px;border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/09\/7065.image_7537B49F.png\" width=\"176\" height=\"244\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><strong><font size=\"4\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/download\/details.aspx?id=34708\">Feature Improvement: Microsoft Test Manager<\/a><\/font><\/strong> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><font size=\"3\">Several experience improvements in test case management and manual testing. <\/font><\/li>\n<li><font size=\"3\">Support for hierarchical queries <\/font><\/li>\n<li><font size=\"3\">Added support for update notification<\/font> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><font size=\"4\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/download\/details.aspx?id=34707\">Feature Improvement: Team Foundation Server 2012<\/a>&#160; <\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"3\">(For more detailed information on these features please see: <\/font><a title=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/bharry\/archive\/2012\/09\/12\/visual-studio-update-this-fall.aspx\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/bharry\/archive\/2012\/09\/12\/visual-studio-update-this-fall.aspx\"><font size=\"3\">http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/bharry\/archive\/2012\/09\/12\/visual-studio-update-this-fall.aspx<\/font><\/a><font size=\"3\">)<\/font><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><font size=\"3\">Web Access navigation restyling and usability improvements <\/font><\/li>\n<li><font size=\"3\">Support for kanban including a board for the backlog, Work In Progress limits, and Continuous Flow Diagrams <\/font><\/li>\n<li><font size=\"3\">Ability to drag and drop a task in the board to another user story <\/font><\/li>\n<li><font size=\"3\">Ability to drag and drop a task in the board to assign it to another person <\/font><\/li>\n<li><font size=\"3\">Next and Previous buttons on the work item form in the triage view <\/font><\/li>\n<li><font size=\"3\">Links and Attachments tab in the work item form shows the count of contents <\/font><\/li>\n<li><font size=\"3\">Animation on the task board when a task is dragged <\/font><\/li>\n<li><font size=\"3\">Ability to drag and drop work items in the backlog to assign to a person or activity <\/font><\/li>\n<li><font size=\"3\">Improved error handling and messaging for Project Server Integration <\/font><\/li>\n<li><font size=\"3\">Updated process template versions for all the templates<\/font> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><font size=\"3\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"3\"><strong>If you do run into issues please let use know!<\/strong>&#160; <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"3\">How to Provide Feedback on this Release.&#160; <\/font><font size=\"3\">Feedback is an important part of this process. To supply feedback, please use the <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com\/f8a5aac8-0418-4f88-9d34-bdbe2c4cfe72\"><font size=\"3\">Visual Studio 2012 feedback tool<\/font><\/a><font size=\"3\">, which can be located <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com\/f8a5aac8-0418-4f88-9d34-bdbe2c4cfe72\"><font size=\"3\">here<\/font><\/a><font size=\"3\">. The feedback tool:<\/font><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><font size=\"3\">Automatically marks your suggestions as private \u2013 feel free to make them public if you want people to see them and vote your issue higher in our prioritization. <\/font><\/li>\n<li><font size=\"3\">Automatically captures the build number, so we know any bugs\/suggestions are for this technology preview to the update. <\/font><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Statement of Support<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please note: as this is a Technology Preview, it is NOT meant to be run on production workstations or servers.&#160; The testing of these CTPs is not as exhaustive and complete as the testing for the release product.&#160; The recommended approach for upgrading Visual Studio on developer workstations is installing the latest Visual Studio Update 1 CTP on top of the RTM or a previous CTP build.&#160;&#160; NOTE: since setup is updating the files during these updates there is NOT a \u201cdowngrade\u201d path to get back to a previous release.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>WARNING: Do not install the CTP on a Team Foundation Server Production Server.&#160; Unlike Visual Studio you can NOT upgrade Team Foundation Server once a CTP is applied and you can NOT attach a CTP TFS configuration database (which contains the Source, Work Items etc) to a released version of Team Foundation Server. <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"3\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"3\">**The reason for every three weeks is so the scenario teams can get feedback on their last sprint. <\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have had a couple of people ask me about these new downloads appearing in MSDN downloads simply called something like: CTP of Quarterly Update for Visual Studio 2012 (x86) &#8211; (English). 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