Team Foundation Beta 3 has been released!

Buck Hodges

Today we signed off on Team Foundation Beta 3!  If you used beta 2, beta 3 is a vast improvement.  Beta 3 should hopefully show up on MSDN in about two days.  You may remember that beta 3 has the go-live license and will be supported for migration to the final release version 1, which means this is the last time you have to start from scratch.

With beta 3, single-server installation is once again supported!  I know many people didn’t install the July CTP because of the lack of a single-server installation.  With each public release, installation has gotten easier and more reliable, and this is the best installation thus far.

I wrote about what changed between beta 2 and the July CTP.  That’s still a good summary.  Between the July CTP and beta 3, we fixed a lot of bugs, further improved performance across the product, improved the handling of authenticating with the sever using different credentials (e.g., you’re not on the domain), improved installation, and more.

If you have distributed teams, be sure to try out the source control proxy server.  It’s one of the features we have to support distributed development.

While you are waiting on TFS to show up, you’ll want to make sure you already have Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite Release Candidate (build 50727.26) and SQL Server 2005 Standard (or Enterprise) Edition September CTP (build 1314.06, which uses the matching 2.0.50727.26 .NET framework)).

TFS beta 3 is build 50727.19.  The reason the minor number is different than the VS RC minor number is due to the fact that TFS beta 3 was built in a different branch.  The major build number stopped changing at 50727 (July 27, 2005 build) for all of Visual Studio, and only the minor number changes now.

Here’s a list of my recent posts that are particularly relevant to beta 3.

This one will need to be updated (URLs changed):  TFS Source Control administration web service.

[Update 9/22/05]  Updated links and SQL info.

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