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Microsoft announced retail prices for some of the VS2010 SKUs:

Suggested Retail Pricing (USD) for Visual Studio 2010

			With 1-Year MSDN Subscription*
Product	Buy	Upgrade	Buy	Renew
Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate	-	-	$11,899	$3,799
Visual Studio 2010 Premium	-	-	$5,469	$2,299
Visual Studio 2010 Professional	$799	$549	$1,199	$799
Visual Studio Test Professional 2010	-	-	$2,169	$899
Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010	$499	$399	-	-
Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 CAL	$499	-	-	-
Visual Studio Load Test Virtual User Pack 2010 (1000 Virtual Users)	$4,499	-	-	-

* Subscription contents vary by purchased product.

Pay attention that MTLM is renamed to Visual Studio Test Professional.

Price for Lab Management is still to be announced.

Labels: Visual Studio 2010

New dates for Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 RTM are announced today. The official RTM date is 12th April 2010. As I wrote before, in February there will be released also Release Candidate version.

Microsoft will be supporting upgrade from Beta 2 to RC, Beta 2 to RTM and RC to RTM so there is no reason why you should not upgrade today or at least start planning it. A full TFS upgrade can take a lot of time so you better plan it. I will write a follow up post on common pitfalls during TFS 2008 to TFS 2010 upgrade process.

If you have any problems upgrading TFS 2008/2005 to TFS 2010, please feel free to contact me.

(through Microsoft Bulgaria - Developer and Platform Evangelism Blog)

Labels: TFS, Visual Studio 2010

The so long anticipated date of 22nd of March will be “moved back a few weeks”.

Visual Studio 2010, TFS 2010 and .NET 4.0 release will be postponed due to outstanding performance issues.

While I am happy that MS is taking VS perf issues so close to announce this huge change, it still messes up a lot of planning around that date. Let’s hope that VS2010 gets much better at the end.

In addition a VS2010 Release Candidate with Go Live license will be available in the middle of February.

You can read more at Soma’s, ScottGu’s and Brian Harry’s blogs.

Labels: Visual Studio 2010

This time we are going to discuss what are the advantages in Team Foundation Server 2010 versus SourceSafe. We will see how easy is to install TFS 2010 and what functionalities we get compared to SourceSafe. Again we will go quickly through pricing and licensing issues. Topics and dates for next meetings will be proposed.

Please see Facebook event or Outlook calendar file for information on how to connect.

This meeting is part of the VS2010 Beta 2 Focus Group events and is also part of the SofiaDev.NET User Group activities.

Labels: INETA, TFS, Visual Studio 2010

The second of the series of meetings targeting Visual Studio 2010 launch is announced. You can find the details in the Visual Studio 2010 Planning and Deployment Facebook event. It will be held tomorrow, 19^th of November, at 10am (CET+1/GMT+2). The event will be held in Bulgarian and will look at different scenarios for upgrade to TFS 2010, deployment and performance problems in TFS 2008 and how they are solved in TFS 2010. Also compatibility issues between different versions of Visual Studio will be discussed.

Also make sure that you join the VS2010 Beta 2 Focus Group on Facebook and you will receive future notifications about similar events in this focus group.

All participants in the meeting will receive one Visual Studio Planning Poker Cards Deck kindly provided by Visual Studio Product Group.

UPDATE: Link to Outlook calendar can be found here - http://www.kulov.net/blogs/martin/VS2010%20Planning%20and%20Deployment.ics

Labels: Events, INETA, Visual Studio 2010

The recording from the Visual Studio 2010 Focus Group is available for download.

    Subject: VSTS 2010 Focus Group - Visual Studio 2010 Pricing and Licensing
    Recording URL: https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/mvp/view?id=4737R8

Next meeting will be on 19 Nov 2009 and we will be covering “Visual Studio 2010 Planning and Deployment”.

Thanks to everyone for participating and will see you at the next meeting.

Labels: Events, INETA, TFS, Visual Studio 2010

At DevReach 2009 (www.devreach.com) was announced the launch of a new focus group targeting the upcoming release of Visual Studio 2010. This focus group will deliver series of discussions until Visual Studio 2010 RTM in 22^nd March, 2010.

On 19^th October Microsoft announced the availability of Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2. This version is of significant importance as it comes with Go Live license for production systems. Go Live license allows you to deploy and run .NET 4.0, VS 2010 Beta 2 and TFS 2010 Beta 2 for commercial use and have full support from Microsoft. Upgrade from Beta 2 to RTM version is also supported.

It is also worth mentioning that this is one of the biggest releases of Visual Studio so far.

Here are the first scheduled sessions so far:

• 05 Nov 2009 – Visual Studio 2010 Pricing and Licensing
• 19 Nov 2009 – Visual Studio 2010 Planning and Deployment
• 26 Nov 2009 – SourceSafe is dead, Long live TFS Basic!

The most active participants will be included in a raffle provided by Microsoft Bulgaria.

The meetings will be delivered using Live Meeting discussions in Bulgarian and will be held at 10am (CET) for an hour. Attending the first meeting is easy – just click on this link. Our idea is to allow more people to join from their working places and avoid time usually spent in traffic.

These meetings of the focus group are part of SofiaDev.NET User Group.

For additional announcements, please watch out Martin Kulov’s blog at www.kulov.net/blogs/martin and Face Book group VS2010 Beta 2 Focus Group.

Labels: Events, INETA, TFS, Visual Studio 2010

The new licensing schema is actually hotter topic than the new Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2. So – good bye Visual Studio Team System – welcome Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate. Visual Studio 2010 RTM will be released on 22^nd of March.

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 will also include Go Live license for all customers.

In addition – clients using VS 2008 can connect to TFS 2010 using the newly released VS2008 GDR Pack.

Here is the new Visual Studio 2010 SKU list:

• Microsoft^® Visual Studio^® 2010 Professional
• Microsoft^® Visual Studio^® 2010 Professional with MSDN
• Microsoft^® Visual Studio^® 2010 Premium with MSDN
• Microsoft^® Visual Studio^® 2010 Ultimate with MSDN
• Microsoft^® Visual Studio^® Test Elements 2010 with MSDN
• Microsoft^® Visual Studio^® Team Foundation Server 2010
• Microsoft^® Visual Studio^® Team Lab Management 2010
• Microsoft^® Visual Studio^® Load Test Virtual User Pack 2010

Need to learn more about the licensing and pricing? Check out my blog as I will post information when and where you can learn more in our User Groups.

PS: Did I tell you that TFS is now available in all versions with MSDN? And for small teams you can use TFS Basic that is installed from the same installer as the full blown Team Foundation Server!

Labels: Visual Studio 2010

If try to connect to TFS 2010 instance from Visual Studio 2008 you will probably experience the following error message:

Possible reasons for failure include:

• The Team Foundation Server name, port number or protocol is incorrect.
  
• The Team Foundation Server is offline.
  
• Password is expired or incorrect.

The trick is that due to changes in TFS 2010 architecture, you now have to enter a full URL to connect to the server. This URL have to include a TFS virtual directory in it. So at the end the URL will something like this:

http://tfs2010:8080/tfs

This will connect you to the default collection of the TFS 2010 server.

Labels: Tools and Tips, Visual Studio 2008, Visual Studio 2010

Do you want to try the new branching features in the upcoming VS Team Foundation Server and .NET 4.0? Do you want to see the new WPF based editor in VS 2010? Do you want to try out the new historical debugger?

These features and also many more are available for free trial download from Microsoft.

Please note that these images expire on 1 Jan 2009 so you need to run off the time synchronization in VPC or Hyper-V.

There is also Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Training Kit.

You will also need the following passwords to login to the VPC:

• Administrator: TFSSETUP, password: 1Setuptfs (use this account to explore the CTP)
• Administrator: Administrator,password: P2ssw0rd
• User: TFSREPORTS, password: 1Reports
• User: TFSSERVICE, password: 1Service

Labels: Tools and Tips, Visual Studio 2010