August 24 2012 Reminder: This virtual machine will be expiring on September 10, 2012. Please consider upgrading to the 2012 version as soon as possible.
March 23 2012 Update: This virtual machine was updated today with a new version which will expire September 10, 2012. If you are using the older version please note that it expires on April 9, 2012. This new version contains the latest Windows Updates, Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1, and Team Foundation Server 2010 Service Pack 1.
I am pleased to announce that the RTM version of the Visual Studio 2010 virtual machine, along with sample data and hands-on-labs for key application lifecycle management (ALM) scenarios, is now available.
This virtual machine (VM) includes Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate, Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010, and a sample application along with sample data which supports 14 hands-on-labs. This VM includes everything you need to learn and/or deliver demonstrations of many of my favorite application lifecycle management (ALM) capabilities in Visual Studio 2010. This VM is available in the virtualization platform of your choice (Hyper-V, Virtual PC 2007 SP1, and Windows [7] Virtual PC). Hyper-V is highly recommended because of the performance benefits and snapshotting capabilities.
This virtual machine is based on trial software which will expire on September 10, 2012.
Tailspin Toys The sample application we are using in this virtual machine is a simple ASP.NET MVC 2 storefront called Tailspin Toys. Tailspin Toys sells model airplanes and relies on the application lifecycle management capabilities of Visual Studio 2010 to help them build, test, and maintain their storefront.
Hands-on-Labs / Demo Scripts The 14 hands-on-labs / demo scripts which accompany this virtual machine cover several of the core capabilities of conducting application lifecycle management with Visual Studio 2010. Each document can be used by an individual in a self-paced hands-on-lab capacity, to learn how to perform a given set of tasks, or used by a presenter to deliver a demonstration or classroom-style training.
Software quality:
Software architecture:
Software Configuration Management:
These labs can be downloaded here.
How to use this virtual machine: For your convenience, the same virtual machine has been ported to three different virtualization platforms. For instructions on how to use this virtual machine, please download “Working with the Visual Studio 2010 Virtual Machine.docx.” This guidance will help you get started with the virtual machine using the virtualization technology of your choice (Hyper-V, Virtual PC 2007, or Windows [7] Virtual PC). It also includes the username and password for this virtual machine.
This image will effectively stop working on September 10, 2012 when the trial software (SQL Server, Visual Studio, Team Foundation Server) stops working. You will also receive Windows activation messages while using this VM – this is because of the way Windows Server 2008 trial behaves and is to be expected, so you can ignore / cancel these activation dialogs when prompted. If you want to get rid of these activation warnings you can activate the image using your own product key (e.g. from your MSDN Subscription). You may want to do the same for the copy of Office which is installed, since it will be limited to 25 launches.
Downloading the virtual machine: I suggest using a download manager for these files since they are very large. My download manager of choice is Free Download Manager. You can use your own favorite download manager, but you may need to adapt the instructions below as appropriate.
The download details pages contain more information on each of these releases.
What’s in this release? The version of this virtual machine which was refreshed on March 23, 2012, and includes the following software: · Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Service Pack 1 · Team Foundation Server 2010 Service Pack 1 · Visual Studio 2010 Feature Pack 2 · Team Foundation Server 2010 Power Tools (September 2010 Release) · Visual Studio 2010 Productivity Power Tools (these are disabled in VS so that the screenshots of the hands-on-labs still match; you can quickly enable the Productivity Power Tools via Tools -> Extension Manager from within Visual Studio) · Test Scribe for Microsoft Test Manager · Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 Process Template · All Windows Updates through March 15, 2012 · Minor fit-and-finish fixes based on customer feedback · A new expiration date of September 10, 2012
Download details pages:
· Visual Studio 2010 RTM (Hyper-V) · Visual Studio 2010 RTM (Windows [7] Virtual PC) · Visual Studio 2010 RTM (Virtual PC 2007 SP1)
You can also download and install all of the Visual Studio 2010 trial software for yourself by downloading the installers from here.
Happy downloading! Please send feedback / questions to VSKitFdbk@Microsoft.com.
Hi Krunal,
Unfortunately I haven't invested in creating scripts / exports of the information required to support the underlying hands-on-labs. While a TPC export would address some of the labs, others require additional artifacts (builds, web site deployments, reporting warehouse...) that wouldn't be captured in a pure TPC export. I understand that there are a few people in your situation who would benefit from this but on top of everything else I just haven't had the resources to package it up in this manner.
Maybe you can download the VM to another machine and practice with it outside of your corporate network, such as at home? Just a thought.
Brian
Downloaded the VPC 2007 version to my Dell Latitude notebook. I only have 2 Gigs of RAM on the machine and wasn't able to run the VM past with the Windows logon screen. The readme says I need ~4GB of RAM which I don't have. Would be nice if I had step-by-step videos of the labs so I could ateast learn the tools. Already have Vista, VS 2010, and TFS 2010, installed with on the latitude. Out of ideas.
@Krunal,
You're right, 2GB of physical memory is not really going to be enough to have a successful time with most VM's, especially this one which is running lots of server software. If you want to see these scenarios in action, almost all of the demos can be found in my presentations from a few months ago. See blogs.msdn.com/.../visual-studio-2010-alm-presentations-from-my-recent-roadshow.aspx
Just FYI, the VM does run on my 2GB RAM Windows 7 Dell desktop. I allocated 1GB to the VM and it responds fairly well. Even though it's under the recommended minimum I took a chance and it works fine, so you may have other issues - for instance you better have about 50 gigs of free space on the hard drive before you start, etc. Just sayin', FWIW...
Looking for additional labs....are more to be released?
Renald,
Are there any particular topics you'd like to see?
Particular Topics:
DB - Database Project Versioning in Version Control
Build - Build Activity Creation, Gated Checkin, Deploy Website, Deploy DB
Merge - Handle merge conflicts, Baseless merges
Workitem - Custom Workitem workflow creation
Repots - Creating custom reports
SharePoint - Customize TFS SharePoint portal
Operations - Monitoring/Reporting on applications deployed from Version Control in TFS
this is a wonderful resource for VS2010 ALM. I would sugest to add the following stuff in the future release:
VS 2010 Database Project (formerly datadude)
Process template customization
Team project setup
I have done all 9 labs inside, thats fantastic !