Dealing with the Team System 2010 CTP expiration

Bryan Krieger — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 17:24:20 GMT

Jeff Beehler has written a nice post about how to address the Team System 2010 CTP expiration date.

[VSTS2010] Como extender el periodo de evaluacion de la VPC de VSTS2010 (o algo parecido)

El Bruno — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:46:16 GMT

Buenas, si has estado probando la máquina virtual con la última CTP de Visual Studio Team System 2010

[VSTS2010] Como extender el periodo de evaluacion de la VPC de VSTS2010 (o algo parecido)

El Bruno — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:46:49 GMT

Buenas, si has estado probando la máquina virtual con la última CTP de Visual Studio Team System 2010

[VSTS2010] Como extender el periodo de evaluacion de la VPC de VSTS2010 (o algo parecido)

El Bruno — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:46:57 GMT

Buenas, si has estado probando la máquina virtual con la última CTP de Visual Studio Team System 2010

re: Dealing with the Team System 2010 CTP expiration

El Bruno — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:50:49 GMT

Jeff -> thanks for the cool tip :D

VSTS 2010 CTP "The evaluation period for Visual Studio Trial Edition has ended"

Baruch Frei — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 23:40:02 GMT

That's the massage you are going to get around 2009 Jan 1st if you are using the VSTS 2010 CTP .

Visual Studio 2010 CTP VPC is Expiring -- Here's the Fix!

Beth Massi - Sharing the goodness that is VB — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 22:08:27 GMT

The first episode in a series on VS 2010 was posted this week on Channel 9. The series is put on by some

September VSTS 2010 (Codename "Rosario") CTP expires at EOY

Are you thinking what I'm thinking? — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 22:39:10 GMT

If you've been testing out the latest VSTS 2010/.NET 4.0 CTP, you may or may not have noticed that the

Thank you developer community!

Community and Influencers Blog — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 00:13:52 GMT

Since the beginning of the year, the developer community joined one of the most exciting initiatives

re: Dealing with the Team System 2010 CTP expiration

Erik Cox — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 17:38:13 GMT

Thx for the post...I have read it and applied what you mentioned in your post to <a href="http://www.notionsolutions.com">Team System 2010</a>..but I was just wondering is there any way to make sure that I have applied everything correctly!?

re: Dealing with the Team System 2010 CTP expiration

jeffbe — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 17:43:42 GMT

Hi Erik-

The best way to check to make sure you've applied the changes correctly is to shut down the VPC, wait a few minutes and then start it back up. If the time in the VPC doesn't match the time on your system, you've done it correctly.

Hope that helps!

jeff

Make sure you apply this fix before your VS2010 CTP VPC expires! (Lisa Feigenbaum)

VB Feeds — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 22:19:09 GMT

Have you downloaded and started using the Visual Studio 2010 Community Technology Preview ("CTP"

Fixing the VS2010 CTP Expiration problem

Visual Studio Hacks — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 18:04:46 GMT

For those of you that have downloaded the Visual Studio 2010 CTP, you might have noticed that it will expire within a few days. The fix for this is simple and Jeff Beehler has a good post that is easy to follow. In case you missed it from the link blog,

re: Dealing with the Team System 2010 CTP expiration

andrew — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 08:01:02 GMT

Downloaded this think all day, only to find it had seven days left. Why waist our time and our band width, needless to say. Not all the hacks work as they should, once VS times out, thats it, not even a reinstall works.

re: Dealing with the Team System 2010 CTP expiration

andrew — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:49:55 GMT

This must be the worst CTP ever released by MS, the CTP does not work as expected, the trial period of 1 week is not worth 2 cents. The band width for us SA people costs over a $100 for this download. what a waist of time and money, hopefully the release is nothing like this. This must be the first time ever that I have been so disappointed in Microsoft in 28 years.

The Visual Studio 10 CTP VPC expired! What should I do?

VSX Team Blog — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:00:03 GMT

A couple of months ago, we unveiled Visual Studio 10 at several conferences and provided attendees a

Team System 2010 CTP Expiration Workaround

IHateSpaghetti {code} — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 12:45:02 GMT

To all the customs trying our CTP - the timebomp is activated and you probably getting the following

re: Dealing with the Team System 2010 CTP expiration

jeffbe — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:00:04 GMT

Andrew - I'm sorry that you had a negative experience with our CTP. We release these builds for a number of reasons including of course to get customer feedback. We've gotten plenty of it including some like yours regarding the delivery vehicle rather than the product itself. The fact that the release was only on a VPC and that it inadvertently expired early are very unfortunate and we're ensuring that we don't repeat them again in future releases.

Fortunately, we have received a lot of positive feedback on the product functionality as well. Customers are very excited about the VSTS 2010 features and I'm confident that you'll like the end result. We're working hard on a beta release at the moment and I hope that you'll give us another chance once that's available.

Once again, my apologies for the troubles you had with the most recent CTP release.

Yours,

jeff

re: Dealing with the Team System 2010 CTP expiration

rita — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 13:28:07 GMT

where is the test manager feature which was promised to be release in the 2010 version

re: Dealing with the Team System 2010 CTP expiration

jeffbe — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:25:36 GMT

Rita - if you look at the CTP walkthroughs (see http://blogs.msdn.com/jeffbe/archive/2008/10/27/check-out-the-new-team-system-2010-ctp.aspx for more info) take a look at the "Sprint 2" section. In this part of the walkthrough you'll see information about how we envision customers will manage their testing efforts.

Hope this helps,

jeff

Lo mejor, en forma de librerías

Sobre C#, LINQ y algo más... — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 15:14:06 GMT

Get it right the first time, that is the main thing, Gonna make that first time last. "Get it right

Keeping the Visual Studio 2010 CTP VPC from PDC 2008 running

Mike Vincent's Blog — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 03:34:33 GMT

The Virtual PC image for Visual Studio 2010 CTP provided at PDC 2008 and downloadable from here has an

re: Dealing with the Team System 2010 CTP expiration

Lamer — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:05:44 GMT

Oh Joy... now I get to download all over again. Another great CTP experience in a hole. Why not just let peeps get the CTP themselves?

Extend Your PDC Life

Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 03:38:52 GMT

The product installs in the VPC images of WCF 4 and Dublin should be expiring around now if you've been

re: Dealing with the Team System 2010 CTP expiration

Blah — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 20:54:09 GMT

That didn't work. I set my time back on my system, changed the settings, and when I loaded up the VPC it said that it wanted me to activate. Why oh why must you guys always do things the hard way?

re: Dealing with the Team System 2010 CTP expiration

jeffbe — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 21:01:34 GMT

The activation messages can be safely ignored. Setting the VPC date back allows for the Visual Studio IDE to start which it won't do after 1/1/2009.

I'm sorry for the difficulties. We have taken steps to ensure that we check future releases for these sorts of problems before we publish them.

jeff

Nowy wygląd VS 2010

.neting in the free world — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 01:30:28 GMT

W wersji CTP , która była dostępna podczas zeszłorocznych konferencji TechEd i PDC, a która wciąż jest

Thank you developer community!

Nestor Portillo — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:57:10 GMT

Since the beginning of the year, the developer community joined one of the most exciting initiatives

re: Dealing with the Team System 2010 CTP expiration

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re: Dealing with the Team System 2010 CTP expiration

michael — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:40:30 GMT

Since I run MacOSX and VmWare Fusion, the way Microsoft distributed VS2010 CTP was a barrier.

While I generated a VmWare image, and ran it under VmWare Fusion, the install of VmWare Tools changed the BIOS date Windows 2008 stopped showing the mouse, etc....

For folks like myself who don't mind Linux, this sort of treatment is terrible.

i.e. if you are doing a community preview, do it well.

I think it was totally unacceptable for Microsoft not to reimage with extended trial dates; in that case, users like myself would actually try your product instead of walking away.

Moreover, Microsoft made me feel negative about their products instead of positive about their products.

No other company is this silly!

Apple isn't that silly; Adobe isn't that silly, etc...

re: Dealing with the Team System 2010 CTP expiration

michael — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:43:50 GMT

RE: "Andrew - I'm sorry that you had a negative experience with our CTP. We release these builds for a number of reasons including of course to get customer feedback."

re: Dealing with the Team System 2010 CTP expiration

michael — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:47:17 GMT

RE: "Andrew - I'm sorry that you had a negative experience with our CTP. We release these builds for a number of reasons including of course to get customer feedback."

I would hope that someone at Microsoft starts to think. I don't really understand why Microsoft made users download every single office product; project; and all the team editions of the software. SQL Server was also running.

Most other companies, like Apple and Adobe, wouldn't mistreat their customers like that.

re: Dealing with the Team System 2010 CTP expiration

John Anthony Oliver ( former student partner ). — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 21:48:45 GMT

For all users why don't Microsoft set the expiry date of a CTP nearer the planned actual release date of the product?

So if Visual Studio 2010 is released say 1st December 2009 then why no set the CTP to expire on the 1st November 2009 ( or better still the day before it goes on sale )?

To anyone downloading this CTP after the 1st Jan 2009, wil I need to set my system clock back 1st or simply disable the date-ime synchronization as above?

On the subject of MSDN subscriptions I wish Microsoft offered 3 month, 6 month, and 9 month MSDN subscriptions or even a monthly payment option.

THIS WOULD BE GREAT FOR STUDENTS like myself on a low income who may only be working part-time.

While on the subect how about making CTP files available via MSDNAA or / AND the DREAMSPARK sites too?

re: Dealing with the Team System 2010 CTP expiration

Krishna — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:30:38 GMT

Did it ever work for anyone? I followed the steps mentioned in the blog --- tried atleast 10 times - what a waste of time.

re: Dealing with the Team System 2010 CTP expiration

Juan Zamudio — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:14:26 GMT

It didn't work for me either, the date on the server is September 2008 but i get the same trial period ended message.

re: Dealing with the Team System 2010 CTP expiration

GA — Tue, 05 May 2009 07:37:57 GMT

Can someone PLEASE help me!!!! I still can't get the activation message to go. The virtual machine has a date of May 2008 but the activation message continues to popup. I've way too much time on this already. Does anyone know how I can play with VS 2010??????????

re: Dealing with the Team System 2010 CTP expiration

Dan — Sat, 09 May 2009 17:50:01 GMT

It would seem that the version of Microsoft Virtual PC that comes as part of windows 7 does not respect the setting that disables host clock synchonization. \-:

re: Dealing with the Team System 2010 CTP expiration

jeffbe — Wed, 13 May 2009 20:27:01 GMT

I'm sorry to hear about all of these challenges people have had getting the VSTS 2010 VPC to work correctly past the expiration date. My best recommendation at this point is to wait for our beta release which is just around the corner. From there you'll be able to install VSTS and TFS on your own hardware or virtual machine and no longer need to worry about activation or resetting VHD time sync settings.

Jeff

re: Dealing with the Team System 2010 CTP expiration

Priyanka — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:48:58 GMT

Is there a new CTP / Beta Release with the VPC for Training Kit ,somewhere in pipeline in near future. The workaround doesnot work for me and over and again , I m getting the same expiration messages. I am not able to open up Visual Studio.

re: Dealing with the Team System 2010 CTP expiration

jeffbe — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:45:03 GMT

We will most likely release a new VPC with our next Beta release of Dev10. In the meantime, you can certainly install Dev10 Beta1 from here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dd582936.aspx. There's even a training kit available here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=752cb725-969b-4732-a383-ed5740f02e93.