Everything you want to know about Visual Studio ALM and Farming
Brian Harry is a Microsoft Technical Fellow working as the Product Unit Manager for Team Foundation Server. Learn more about Brian.
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The most commonly reported/voted for Connect bugs in the Release candidate had to do with the ASP.NET designer not auto generating controls properly - it would sometimes just omit them. Very frustrating if you are trying to use it. We've just release a patch (the 3rd RC patch in total) to address this set of issues. You can read more about the patch here: http://blogs.msdn.com/webdevtools/archive/2010/03/05/hotfix-for-issue-with-auto-generated-designer-files-not-adding-controls.aspx
And you can download and install it here: http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=27117
Hopefully this will address this issue and get you moving forward again.
Thanks,
Brian
Not really a related post but I have two questions I haven't seen answered anywhere…
1.) vs2010 pro vs vs2010 team system. What's the differenece in terms of tfs? Is it just the inclusion of a cal? Meaning if I get vs2010 pro + team explored + tfs cal, my experience is the same as with vs2010 team system?
2.) backups… how do they work? Does tfs have a vss (volume shadow copy) writer? Or do we rely on SQL server to provide the backup and restore functionality?
Thanks.
Hi Brian,
are there any plans of integrating Visual Studio hotfixes / updates with Microsoft Update (or at least some custom auto-updating system)? Hunting for .exe files on the Connect site isn't the best experience I can imagine.
Borek
1) In terms of TFS, there is no difference starting in 2010, assuming you buy MSDN with your VS. Pro and above with MSDN include a CAL and a server license.
2) No, we don't have a vss. We relyon on SQL Server to provide backup functionality. All of our interesting data (except for some IIS configuration) is stored in SQL Server.
Understood. I believe we do we release some key hot fixes through Microsoft Update but it's a small subset. I don't believe we are currently looking at increasing the scope of that. None-the-less we realize the one-by-one search and install experience isn't much fun. We are looking at the possibility of providing periodic hot fix rollups to make it easy to get all of the hot fixes. SQL Server started doing this with their 2008 release and we're looking at what it would be like for VS.
Brian, what if I'm not getting MSDN but rather a retail copy of VS2010 Pro + TFS CAL + Team Explorer?
If you aren't buying MSDN, and only buying VS 2010 Pro without MSDN, then you will need to separately purchase a TFS CAL to go with your VS Pro. TFS CALs are available for separate purchase and are included as an MSDN benefit.
How about a patch that enabled Silverlight 4 to work in VS 2010 - you could call it Silverlight 4 RC?
I think that's a bit more than a patch. We'll be releasing compatibility between Silverlight 4 and VS 2010 as soon as we can.