Today we officially released Visual Studio 2012.3 and Team Foundation Server 2012.3. All in all, these are small releases, mostly containing high priority bug fixes and a few changes to improve the compatibility/interop story with VS 2013. You can read all about it in the KB article or download it here: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=290979. Of course you can also just use the Visual Studio Update manager to get the Visual Studio improvements.
Thanks,
Brian
Hi Brian – is the VS update still to be released on the download centre?
Brian, Not seeing the new downloads and/or article yet. Still pointing to RC2 on the article and nothing for the download. Thanx.
Title says 2012, post says 2013… Getting my hopes up, man!
Slight publishing delay. The links should resolve within the next few minutes.
Brian
@Simon, fixed the typo in the body. Thanks.
Brian
That was fast. Now to upgrade our TFS server to Update 3….will we be able to upgrade from update 3 to TFS 2013 Preview?
@Oliver, yes you will be able to upgrade from 2012.3 to the 2013 preview. You can upgrade from previous versions too. We are also releasing the 2013 Preview today. Expect more on that in the next hour.
Brian
Where is the ISO? There is an iso for 2012.2, but I can't find the link to the ISO for 2012.3
@Greg, Here's the ISO link. It's buried in the download instructions.
go.microsoft.com/fwlink
Brian
@Brian Harry thanks!
>use the Visual Studio Update manager to get the Visual Studio improvements
Can you PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE make the "Update" button really update VS/Add-ins instead of opening my web browser just to download the update file and close it (trashing all tabs in the process)?
I use Internet Explorer (yes, I know, it's stupid) and this behavior trashes all my tabs.
Consider this scenario:
1) You're reading some interesting articles that you've found on the Internet in IE.
2) You need to restart your PC (to install Windows update for example)
3) You just close the browser and restart you PC hoping to just open IE and click "reopen last session" after the restart.
4) After the restart you decide to open Visual Studio. A popup says that there is an update available. You click at the popup.
5) Visual Studio Update Manager shows that there is some update available (for Visual Studio or add-on).
6) You've seen that many updates that just pop-up a small widow with download and install progress, so you just foolishly click the "Update" button.
7) Suddenly Visual Studio opens IE, asking me to save some .exe file and then just closes it! All my tabs articles are now gone!
Solution 1:
Never open the browser. Always use the internal update mechanism which is used when installing updates to most of add-ins.
Solution 2:
If you're unable to implement Solution 1, then just provide some indication that pressing the Update button is going to open the web browser. Just change the button text from "Update" to "Download" for these cases.
Brian, thank you!!!!! Your links work especially the ISO link….I couldn't for the life of me find a working link to Update 3 for the server…kept finding the client. Your blog is most helpful!!!
Updating VS2012.2 to VS2012.3 stuck at "Applying: Microsoft Visual Studio Preparation"
@Updating Stuck –
Are you installing Visual Studio update by using an ISO file?
> If so, your ISO file might have become corrupted during download. You can verify the integrity of your ISO file by using the instructions here: support.microsoft.com/…/2888277
> If not (i.e., you're using the standard Web installer), we can take a look at your installation logs to help further troubleshoot. To collect the logs, run the EXE pointed to by http://aka.ms/vscollect – when the process completes, the results will be saved to %TEMP%vslogs.cab. You can then share with us the file by uploading it to SkyDrive or another file sharing service and provide us with the URL.
Thank you!