April Rosario CTP now available!
I'm happy to announce that the next Community Technology Preview of Rosario (officially known as Microsoft® Visual Studio® Team System code name “Rosario” April 2008 CTP) is now available. Customers can immediately begin downloading the VPC images from our download page. Because of the size of the VPC, I'd recommend using a download manager, such as the one referred to here, to download the follow part of this release:
https://download.microsoft.com/download/b/f/9/bf9c1b30-ca2d-4381-8e9e-8b5db9701437/Apr2008RosarioCTP _12PartsTotal.part01.exe
https://download.microsoft.com/download/b/f/9/bf9c1b30-ca2d-4381-8e9e-8b5db9701437/Apr2008RosarioCTP _12PartsTotal.part02.rar
https://download.microsoft.com/download/b/f/9/bf9c1b30-ca2d-4381-8e9e-8b5db9701437/Apr2008RosarioCTP _12PartsTotal.part03.rar
https://download.microsoft.com/download/b/f/9/bf9c1b30-ca2d-4381-8e9e-8b5db9701437/Apr2008RosarioCTP _12PartsTotal.part04.rar
https://download.microsoft.com/download/b/f/9/bf9c1b30-ca2d-4381-8e9e-8b5db9701437/Apr2008RosarioCTP _12PartsTotal.part05.rar
https://download.microsoft.com/download/b/f/9/bf9c1b30-ca2d-4381-8e9e-8b5db9701437/Apr2008RosarioCTP _12PartsTotal.part06.rar
https://download.microsoft.com/download/b/f/9/bf9c1b30-ca2d-4381-8e9e-8b5db9701437/Apr2008RosarioCTP _12PartsTotal.part07.rar
https://download.microsoft.com/download/b/f/9/bf9c1b30-ca2d-4381-8e9e-8b5db9701437/Apr2008RosarioCTP _12PartsTotal.part08.rar
https://download.microsoft.com/download/b/f/9/bf9c1b30-ca2d-4381-8e9e-8b5db9701437/Apr2008RosarioCTP _12PartsTotal.part09.rar
https://download.microsoft.com/download/b/f/9/bf9c1b30-ca2d-4381-8e9e-8b5db9701437/Apr2008RosarioCTP _12PartsTotal.part10.rar
https://download.microsoft.com/download/b/f/9/bf9c1b30-ca2d-4381-8e9e-8b5db9701437/Apr2008RosarioCTP _12PartsTotal.part11.rar
https://download.microsoft.com/download/b/f/9/bf9c1b30-ca2d-4381-8e9e-8b5db9701437/Apr2008RosarioCTP _12PartsTotal.part12.rar
For this release we worked on a number of key scenarios that we'd like you to try out. To help facilitate your evaluation, we've included samples and walkthroughs within the VPC to demonstrate these new features. Here's a list of walkthroughs broken out by product:
Architecture Edition
- Exploringthe existing code structure
- Designing process flow as activities
- Designing user interactions with systems
- Designing system functionality as components
- Visualizing and designing types in systems
- Visualizing and designing interaction sequences in systems
Development Edition
- Simplify Code Analysis rule selection with rule sets
- Find and fix a bug using the historical debugger
- Identify the test impact of code changes
- Find a bug on a separate machine using the standalone debugger
Database Edition
- Building and using an off-line representation of your operational database as a “sandbox” development environment.
- Using Data Generation to custom-build data for testing your database application.
- Making and unit-testing schema and code changes in an off-line environment.
- Performing static code analysis of your programmability objects.
Test Edition
- Planning a testing effort
- Executing manual test cases
- Verify the fix
- Automate a manual test and add validation.
Team Foundation Server
- Managing an Agile schedule
- Easier reporting from Excel
- Managing features with the CMMI Process
- A new Add Files to Source Control wizard and support for drag and drop from Windows Explorer to Source Control Explorer
- An enhanced, non-modal conflict resolution experience, integrated into the pending changes tool window
- A new history view that shows labels applied to a file as well as how changes were merged across branches
- A new automated build system built on Windows Workflow Foundation, featuring dynamic build machine allocation from a machine pool and distributed build functionality
- Rollback for a check in (currently only available at the command line)
- Many Source Control Explorer usability enhancements
As you can see, we’ve been busy since our last CTP! As with our previous Rosario CTP, this release is not a beta. We’ve done a reasonable amount of testing on the bits to ensure that most the major features work to some degree and that the key experiences listed above work well but have not done any of the configuration or deep testing that we do for a beta release that we expect customers to use on a regular basis. As such, we encourage you to take the release for a spin and evaluate the new features we’ve added but please don’t expect to use it for any sort of production usage and understand that any data that you enter into the system cannot be migrated to future releases. And by all means, any applications written with these bits may not be redistributed in any way.
We’re releasing this CTP primarily for two key reasons: practice shipping and collecting feedback. Over the past few weeks, we’ve gotten a lot of the first as we’ve worked out the kinks associated with building, testing and releasing these bits to you. Hopefully in the coming weeks and months, we’ll get a lot of the second from you. Feedback in the form of bugs and suggestions can be submitted via https://connect.microsoft.com/visualstudio. Make sure when you submit issues through Connect that you indicate the product version as being “Visual Studio Team System Code Name “Rosario” (April 2008 CTP)”. That will ensure it gets to the right folks for consideration. If you have a question or would like provide feedback to the product team, we've created a special forum specifically focused on Rosario: https://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=1736&SiteID=1. We look forward to hearing from you.
Please join me in congratulating the Team System team on this release.
Woohoo!
jeff
Comments
Anonymous
April 11, 2008
PingBack from http://ozgrant.com/2008/04/11/april-2008-rosario-ctp-available/Anonymous
April 11, 2008
It's finally available!  Seriously - this CTP has quite a bit of features that they have added andAnonymous
April 11, 2008
Bonjour à toutes et à tous. Nous voilà en avril et la nouvelle CTP de Rosario est disponible à l'adresseAnonymous
April 11, 2008
It appears the April 2008 Rosario CTP is now available. Per Jamie Kurtz's blog: This seems to...Anonymous
April 11, 2008
It's here! You can download it ! Jeff Beehler has just announced : … that the next CommunityAnonymous
April 11, 2008
Very impressive set of features, congratulations to all the team!Anonymous
April 11, 2008
The latest Community Technology Preview of Rosario (officially known as Microsoft® Visual Studio® TeamAnonymous
April 11, 2008
The next Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Visual Studio Team System code-name "Rosario"Anonymous
April 12, 2008
Une nouvelle CTP (Customer Technology Preview) de Rosario est disponible en téléchargement. Voici leAnonymous
April 12, 2008
详情请见:http://blogs.msdn.com/jeffbe/archive/2008/04/11/april-rosario-ctp-now-available.aspxAnonymous
April 15, 2008
Visual Studio Team System is Microsoft's solution for application lifecycle management. ALM helps software...Anonymous
April 16, 2008
JBarnes on Calling All Data Dudes... How Do I: Easily Bind Data to .NET Unit Tests? Charles Sterling...Anonymous
April 16, 2008
Rosario rocks (Architecture edition)Anonymous
April 16, 2008
Rosario rocks (Architecture edition)Anonymous
April 17, 2008
As Jeff announce late last week, the April Community Technology Preview of Visual Studio Team SystemAnonymous
June 12, 2008
Ok folks, as I mentioned in a previous post , I'd like to discuss a few of the things I've been up toAnonymous
August 14, 2008
There was a interesting question posted in my comments on the TRX file format , about being able to republishAnonymous
September 10, 2008
Today we've announced the fact that Microsoft has joined the OMG. Please see the press release here .Anonymous
October 27, 2008
I’m really excited about the news today that we’ve released the latest Team System 2010 Community TechAnonymous
November 06, 2008
For those people wanting to keep an eye on what the product team are doing for the next release of Visual Studio Team System, the latest Community Technology Preview (CTP) is now available for download. The "Rosario April CTP" or more offically