A new Virtual Machine was released for evaluation purpose.
The Virtual Machine is a preconfigured Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio with all the latest releases and patches.
What’s in this release?
The version of this virtual machine which was refreshed on May 12, 2011, 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 April, 2011
- Minor fit-and-finish fixes based on customer feedback
- A new expiration date of November 1, 2011
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)
Overview from the site:
This virtual machine is pre-configured with Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate and Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010. It is designed to provide an easy way to evaluate and learn the Visual Studio 2010 family of technologies. A set of hands-on-labs / demo scripts are also available and provided a guided experience through many of the new application lifecycle management capabilities of Visual Studio 2010.For more information on this release, along with instructions on how to use a download manager for more efficiently downloading the files required to use this virtual machine, please click here. This post also contains links to download this virtual machine for the virtualization platform of your choice (Hyper-V, Virtual PC 2007, or Windows Virtual PC).For more information on Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4 visit http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/products/2010/default.mspx. This virtual machine does not have anti-virus software installed. It should not be connected to any network until it has anti-virus software installed. In addition, the operating system and programs installed were patched with all updates through April, 2011. This virtual machine will stop working on November 1, 2011, when the trial software expires. A new version of this virtual machine will be made available before this one expires.
Have Fun!!!