I’ve posted before about TFS licensing, and the official whitepaper was finally released last week. The document covers Team Foundation Server as well as all of Visual Studio.
Visual Studio 2010 Licensing Whitepaper
If you are using Outlook 2010 Beta, you probably need this fix because all of your emails are huge. It was killing me (and a bunch of other folks internally). It is fixed in the recent RC, but most people don’t have access (it’s not a public RC). The Office team has just posted a fix for this issue for folks using the Beta.
Fix for Message Size Issue in Outlook 2010 Beta
Recently, we posted information on the Outlook blog about a bug in the Microsoft Office 2010 Beta that increases the message size of some e-mails messages sent from the Microsoft Outlook 2010 Beta. The Office team has been hard at work building a fix for this issue, which is available immediately.
Download Outlook 2010 Beta fix for 32-bit Office 2010 Download Outlook 2010 Beta fix for 64-bit Office 2010
Download Outlook 2010 Beta fix for 32-bit Office 2010
Download Outlook 2010 Beta fix for 64-bit Office 2010
This fix prevents future messages from consuming unnecessary space, but doesn’t resize existing messages. If you reply or forward an existing message that is affected by this bug, it remains enlarged. To help reduce the impact of large messages on your Inbox and mailbox storage quota, you can also run Conversation Cleanup (new feature in Outlook 2010) on large folders. On the Home tab, in the Delete group, click Clean Up. Also, consider starting new message conversations or threads when possible.
I thought I’d pass it along.
While I don’t have a comprehensive list, I do want to point out these four changes in particular because these classes are fundamental to the API. If you have written code with the Beta 2 client API, here are the changes you will need to be aware of to use the RC client API.
[UPDATE 2/12/10] Jim Lamb has posted updated TFS SDK docs: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Project/Download/FileDownload.aspx?ProjectName=TfsSdk&DownloadId=9107.
Several folks have run into a problem after uninstalling VS 2010 Beta 2 and installing VS 2010 RC. When VS 2010 runs, you get an error message like the following.
Team Foundation Error Could not load type ‘Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client.TeamFoundationServerBase’ from assembly ‘Microsoft.TeamFoundationClient, Version=10.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a’.
Team Foundation Error
Could not load type
‘Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client.TeamFoundationServerBase’ from assembly ‘Microsoft.TeamFoundationClient, Version=10.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a’.
The problem is that the TFS Power Tools for 2010 Beta 2 are installed. Between Beta 2 and RC we made changes to the 2010 client API, so the Beta 2 power tools release will not work. We do not currently have a release of the power tools for the RC (we are working on a power tools release for 2010 RTM).
The fix here is to uinstall the TFS Power Tools for 2010 Beta 2. If after uninstalling it you still get the message, some folks have reported that in order to get rid of it they had to install the power tools again and then uninstall it.