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Error 1330 Installing Visual Studio 2010

This is apparently a known issue and I seem to remember I saw this issue a long time ago. I was installing VSTS 2010 Beta 1 on a VPC (yes, VPC, not Hyper-V) and I mounted the VSTS image (.iso) file on the Virtual PC for it to appear as if the actual disc was inserted, then as you can see on the screenshot below, I got Error 1330 a couple of minutes into the installation.

The solution was to not install directly from the disc. I opened the contents of the .iso file using WIndows Explorer in the VPC and copied all the files to a local folder, then I ran setup.exe from that folder on C: and it worked just fine. This seems to be a know issue though: http://blogs.msdn.com/heaths/archive/2007/12/14/how-to-workaround-error-1330-during-visual-studio-2008-installation.aspx

Visual Studio 2010 Forums available on MSDN

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 was made available to MSDN subscribers to download yesterday and will be available to the non-subscribers (general public) tomorrow. There are many cool new features in the different team editions of Visual Studio. If you are looking at the tools and have any questions (or answers) be sure to visit the Visual Studio 2010 forums on MSDN, you should get answers to your questions very quickly there:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/vstsprerelease

I just finished downloading the VSTS 2010 Beta 1 install bits, now…

… off to create a new VPC for it and prepare to do some demos at the Dallas VSTS UG this Wednesday evening:

http://www.DallasVsts.com

http://dallasvstsug.ning.com

TFS Administration Tool is Getting Some Love

A few Team System MVP’s have agreed to contribute to this CodePlex project and bring it back to life. The subject was brought up in a conversation at the MVP Summit last week and action is being taken to produce a new release of the tool. Bug fixes are being prioritized high but they are looking at everything that is in the backlog and yes, the votes of the backlog items are being considered when deciding what to fix. So if you have anything that you would like to see in an upcoming release of the tool make sure there is an entry for it in the project’s Issue Tracker tab and have your friends vote for it. For more information visit the project’s home page: http://tfsadmin.codeplex.com/

New VSTS and TFS 2008 Trial VPCs

If you have been using any of the two Team System trial VPCs that were released months ago you are probably aware that they are about to expire. Common knowledge was that there were not going to be new trial VPCs available right away and that we would be a couple of weeks without a trial VPC. But it turns out new replacement VPCs were created and released just a couple of days ago. You will find, just like before, a VPC with TFS only and one with TFS and Team Suite but this time they include SP1 of all those products and the latest DBPro release. And for those Hyper-V fans out there, those 2 images are also available for Hyper-V. Check out this blog post from Brian Randell for details or go directly to download the images:

• VSTS “all-up” Virtual PC/Virtual Server image (6 GB download, expands to 15 GB)
• TFS “only” Virtual PC/Virtual Server image (3 GB download, expands to 8 GB)
• VSTS “all-up” Hyper-V image (6 GB download, expands to 15 GB)
• TFS “only” Hyper-V image (3 GB download, expands to 8 GB)

Happy 2009 to everyone!!

Great DBPro news!

I am getting this to you a day late but here it is. Gert Drapers announced yesterday at his DBPro session at PDC (the session slot of the day) that the Release Candidate of the DBPro GDR has been released.

Note that there are no new features since the September CTP, this release only includes bug fixes and performance improvements. The format of the DBProj file is final so you can now start converting your projects and trust that you will not have to do it again. Be sure to read Gert's post for important information about installing the GDR RC and links to the downloads.

New VSTS VPC to be handed out tomorrow at PDC

Are you at PDC this week? Be sure to get your hard disk with the new Visual Studio 2010 CTP Virtual PC. This means that in upcoming VSTS sessions you will be able to bring up the VPC that the speakers are using and try out what you learn right away or even better, as you learn it!!! Woohooo!!

Take a look at this too, if you're not at PDC you can download it: http://blogs.msdn.com/jeffbe/archive/2008/10/27/check-out-the-new-team-system-2010-ctp.aspx

Dallas VSTS Users Group Meeting on Wed. Oct/15

Database development with DBPro as part of your application's lifecycle – D. Omar Villarreal

Note: Visual Studio 2008 Team Edition for Dtabase Developers, aka DBPro, is now part of the Developer edition (see the "Better together" section here for details)  so if you own the Developer Edition and you are not using DBPro, this is your opportunity to jump-start your database development using DBPro.

We will discuss how you can take advantage of the database development tools included in Visual Studio Team System to better manage your database changes. Topics include:

• Declarative database development
• Efficient version control of your database
• Refactoring
• Unit Testing Stored Procedures
• Deploying your database
• Features from the upcoming DBPro GDR (General Distribution Release)
• And more...

For more information visit www.DallasVSTS.com.

DBPro 2008 GDR September CTP is out

The Visual Studio 2008 Team Edition for Database Developers (aka DBPro) GDR (General Development Release) September CTP has been released. This is the last CTP and will be followed by a Release Candidate ans then RTM. If you have installed a previous pre-release version you will have to uninstall it before installing this new version. Also, this CTP requires you to have Visual Studio 2008 RTM SP1 installed as well as Microsoft SQL Server Compact Edition 3.5 SP1. Up until this GDR DBPro required developers to install either SQL Express or SQL Server on their development boxes in order to be able to do database development with the DBPro tools. This will no longer be required as DBPro now uses the SQL Server Compact Edition.

For details and release notes: http://blogs.msdn.com/gertd/archive/2008/09/30/visual-studio-team-system-2008-database-edition-gdr-september-ctp.aspx

For the download options and more details: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=bb3ad767-5f69-4db9-b1c9-8f55759846ed&displaylang=en

Visual Studio Team Edition for Database developers (DBPro) now bundled with the Developer edition

... well, starting tomorrow (Oct/1/2008) actually. So those people who own the Developer edition of Visual Studio will be licensed for the DBPro edition as well. This is great news because up until today you had to invest a lot more money in Visual Studio licensing just to get such essential development tool. I hope everybody starts taking advantage of this right away, several of the clients that I have worked with and did not have a license for it wish they did after they saw what they could do with it.

For a quick DBPro overview video go here: http://teamsystemrocks.com/files/10/vsts/entry1459.aspx. It was recorded using the 2005 version of DBPro but it will give you a great insight of the possibilities if you have not seen DBPro before. This video is about 1-hour long and it really is a quick overview.

Reference: The "Better together" paragraph of this Microsoft document:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/products/cc948977.aspx

Team System Widgets

After some time of "stability" the Team System Widgets page has been updated. Check out this comprehensive reference that links you to all (well, "most" is probably a more accurate statement since there are new tools coming out quite often) Visual Studio Team System... widgets.

Visual Studio 2008 SP1 links

**Be sure to read the readme and release notes!!

If you had installed the Beta

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/RemoveKB944899 
VS2008 SP Preparation Tool

Static Analysis

New for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and FxCop 1.36 – Multi-targeting rule

Performance Tools

http://blogs.msdn.com/profiler/archive/2008/08/11/visual-studio-2008-service-pack-1-released-to-the-world.aspx

Team System Web Access 2008 SP1 and Work Item Web Access 2008 CTP's Available!

Service Pack 1 of the Team System Web Access tool is coming and the Community Technology Preview is ready for you to look at. Details about this release can be found here: http://blogs.msdn.com/hakane/archive/2008/04/09/what-s-new-in-tswa-2008-sp1.aspx 

Plus, by popular demand, a new tool will be released that users without a Team Foundation Client license can use to add and edit Work Items. More information here: http://blogs.msdn.com/hakane/archive/2008/04/09/what-is-work-item-web-access-wiwa.aspx

Tell Microsoft what to do!

... in regards to the next release of Visual Studio team System codename "Rosario".

That is correct. The Team System Product Group has posted a selection of Rosario specifications for you to review and provide feedback. They want to hear from you and this is your opportunity. I am sure you have a little something for Microsoft to hear about. But I am not the kind of person that will pollute search engine results by copying somebody else's blog post, Instead, I'll just give you the source:

Jeff Beehler's blog post about this:

http://blogs.msdn.com/jeffbe/archive/2008/03/26/more-team-system-rosario-specs-available-for-review.aspx

The page with the specifications:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/teamsystem/bb936702.aspx

Enjoy!

-OmarV

TFS Times

For those that may not yet be aware of it, there is a monthly TFS Newsletter at http://www.tfstimes.com/news/. Look for an article from me on it before long.