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A newer VSTS and TFS 2008 VPC image is available now

hakteng — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 03:33:00 GMT

The Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server SP1 and Team Suite SP1 VPC Image (Trial) with expiry date of 31 Dec 2009 is available now. This virtual machine is running Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition, SP2. It contains a full installation of Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server SP1, Team Build 2008 SP1, Team Explorer 2008 SP1, Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Suite SP1 and all necessary prerequisites. In addition, it has been updated with Office 2007 SP1, current Windows Updates as of December 1, 2008, the October 2008 Release of the TFS Power Tools, Team System Web Access 2008 SP1, and the Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server MSSCCI Provider. Team Foundation Server is installed in workgroup authentication mode and thus does not require a domain controller. This release also contains 38 hands-on labs and sample data.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c7a809d8-8c9f-439f-8147-948bc6957812&displaylang=en

VB6 Support

hakteng — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:49:00 GMT

Support Statement for Visual Basic 6.0 on Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008.

Visual Studio 2008 Product Comparison Overview

hakteng — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 11:31:00 GMT

Product	Full language support (like LINQ), access to .NET Framework like WPF	Debugging	Target Native 64 bit	Class Designer	Remote & SQL Debugging	Unit testing	Tools for Office	Smart devices (Mobile)	Microsoft SQL Server integration	TFS integration	Advanced Tools like Code Profiling / Analysis, Design, Database dev. IA64-bit
Visual Studio Express	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Visual Studio Standard	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Visual Studio Professional	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Visual Studio Team System	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

The complete product and edition comparison list http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/products/cc149003.aspx

VSTS Team Build To Get Specific Version To Build

hakteng — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 05:28:45 GMT

To select a specific changesets or labels to build, modify the TFSBuild.proj XML file. Use the GetVersion property - this is for VSTS 2008

<GetVersion>Cxxxx</GetVersion>

</PropertyGroup>

You can put this anywhere within the <Property> tag in the file.

The syntax of the version (changeset or labels or etc):

Date/time (D10/20/2005)
    Changeset version (C1256)
    Label (Lmylabel)
    Latest version (T)
    Workspace version (Wworkspacename;owner)
         by default, it is ‘T’, get latest sources.

You can use the GUI to specify a specific branch of a solution in the version control. However, of that branch, it will always build the latest. This is the essence of continuous integrated build. If you do regular builds, you do not need to build previous versions.