We are trying to figure out if we can make use of Release Management for our Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment needs.
It says that the Release Management Client requires VS 2013 Premium/Ultimate/Test. Does it mean it's only the person who is configuring the build needs to have such version and other developers can still use their VS 2013 Pro?
Does the Release Management Server for TFS 2013 has it's own license which is different from Microsoft Deployment Agent 2013?
Does the product now supports Visual Studio Online? If it helps, we have a TFS proxy and build server in-house.
Thanks
To answer the only technical question you asked: Release Management does not support Visual Studio Online at the moment.
You can read the licensing information here, which pretty clearly answers the questions you have:
http://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/how-to-buy-release-management-vs.aspx
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Is it possible to use Visual Studio 2015 with Team Foundation 2017.
I'm asking because if I create a new Team Project from visual studio I get the following error:
TF400324: Team Foundation services are not available from the server.
Technical information (for administrator):
TF200038: You cannot create a team project with your version of Team Explorer. Contact your system administrator to determine how to upgrade your Team Explorer client to the version compatible with Team Foundation Server.
According to this
article , with Team foundation 2015 you should use at least VS 2015.
If the logic is the same I would say that I cannot use TF2017 with VS 2015.
Can anyone confirm me this or tell me that I'm wrong?
The Team Explorer in Visual Studio is generally compatible with newer versions of Team Foundation Server, but with some exceptions.
You can see the details specified by Microsoft here: Requirements and compatibility. Under Client compatibility they have the following statement:
Only the latest version has "full" compatibility with the latest Team Foundation Server, because this will be the only client that contains components that can interface with new features for that release, and will also be the only client from which you can perform certain administrative tasks such as creating new team projects.
You can however use the web interface for most administration operations.
I am using Microsoft Test Manager 2010, and we are upgrading to TFS 2015.
Question: is it full compatible because we have project, tc, and other items already working.
I see that only need to install GDR : https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2736182 for VS 2010.
But is this only thing what we need to do ? There is no actualy answer on :
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/Library/vs/alm/TFS/administer/requirements#ClientcompatibilityVisualStudio
Will I have the supported platforms and configurations from Microsoft Test Manager 2010 for connecting, making builds for automated tests etc...
Thank you in advance.
Yes MTM 2010 will work with TFS 2015. Obviously you won't be able to use the new testing features though, such as exploratory tests in the 2010 client.
I've done some research and found out that TFS 2013 has some limitations like no reporting, single server deployment, 5 devs etc. But I wonder if there would be any problem with using VS 2013 Pro with TFS 2013 Express.
To sum up :
Is there any problem with one of these two setups ? :
VS 2013 Pro (or Ultimate) - TFS 2013 Express - SQL Server Express
VS 2013 Community - TFS 2013 Express - SQL Server Express
Thanks in advance.
TFS is only limited to no reporting when you use SQL express which does not support those features.
If you have even a single MSDN licence they you are licenced to install TFS with SQL standard. That would give you the reporting capabilities as well.
Single server is also only a limitation of the free (without MSDN) version of TFS.
You can have as many MSDN licenced users AND 5 included users.
I do not believe that there are any issues with either configuration. However I would recommend that you use VSO indeed as you get TFS without having to use a server.
There is no relation between the "Express" name after Visual Studio and TFS. Visual Studio Express works perfectly fine with TFS Express as well as the fully licensed version of TFS and vice versa.
As Martin already mentions, if you have an MSDN subscription, you already have a full license to install and run Team Foundation Server.
If you don't have an MSDN subscription and do not own a Retail version of TFS, you can still use the free Express edition with a few limitations:
No Sharepoint integration
No report server integration
Limited in the number of users
Only a single server installation supported
You can always upgrade your Express installation to the full version at a later point in time.
Instead of the Express version, you should indeed consider visual-studio-online, while this also has a few limitations:
No reporting
No sharepoint integration
It has a number of advantages as well:
Much less administration required
Always up to date with the latest version
Online Build Service available
Integration into Azure
My company has two development teams using TFS 2008. My team would like to migrate our .Net 3.5 app to the .Net 4.0 framework, but the company is not ready to upgrade TFS to TFS 2010.
Can we still use TFS 2008's team build system but with a Visual Studio 2010 solution/project structure that targets the .Net 4.0 framework?
I am thinking we would need to add a new build agent to TFS 2008 that would have VS 2010 installed. But I am not finding any information on how to do this.
Is this possible? Are there any articles explaining how to do this?
Google and Bing haven't found this nugget yet, but William Bartholomew at Microsoft has explained how to do this.
http://blogs.msdn.com/willbar/archive/2009/11/01/building-net-4-0-applications-using-team-build-2008.aspx
Actually, it is not possible to use a TFS2010 build agent with a TFS2008 server. (what you asked for)
You can however, use the TFS2008 build agent to build .Net 4.0 / VS2010 solutions (this what the accepted answer is linking to). This gets the job done, but you don't get the improved build engine (workflow) and reporting of 2010, but you can't use that anyway with your 2008 server!
This really is the only way to go until you can migrate to a TFS2010 server.
Where is it possible to download trial of Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2005?
Microsoft is not offering it in Download section anymore.
Thank you for your answers.
The Visual Studio 2005 TFS trial is available to MSDN Subscribers. I don't believe it is generally available anymore, now that Visual Studio 2008 TFS is out.
If you have not already implemented TFS, then you should look at TFS 2008. It is much improved and a VS 2005 client can connect to it just fine. To download an 90-day trial version of TFS 2008 visit the following link:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=b0155166-b0a3-436e-ac95-37d7e39a440c
If you just wanted to play with TFS and Team System, then I would encourage you to download the pre-configured Virtual PC image as it will save you the time of installing the pre-requisites required for a full TFS installation. You can get the VPC here which will run until the end of the calendar year:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=72262ead-e49d-43d4-aa45-1da2a27d9a65
Is there any reason why you wanted TFS 2005 rather than the latest version?