VS 2010/TFS2010 RTM VM’s (Virtual PC/Windows 7/Hyper-V) now available - Play with VS/TFS without getting your main messy…

Brian Keller: Technical Evangelist for Visual Studio Application - Now Available: Visual Studio 2010 RTM Virtual Machine with Sample Data and Hands-on-Labs

“I am pleased to announce that the RTM version of the Visual Studio 2010 virtual machine, along with sample data and hands-on-labs for key application lifecycle management (ALM) scenarios, is now available.

This virtual machine (VM) includes Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate, Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010, and a sample application along with sample data which supports 9 hands-on-labs. This VM includes everything you need to learn and/or deliver demonstrations of many of my favorite application lifecycle management (ALM) capabilities in Visual Studio 2010. This VM is available in the virtualization platform of your choice (Hyper-V, Virtual PC 2007 SP1, and Windows [7] Virtual PC). Hyper-V is highly recommended because of the performance benefits and snapshotting capabilities.

This virtual machine is based on trial software which will expire on December 15, 2010. Another updated virtual machine will be posted before that date.

Please note that if you were using the RC version of this VHD, it expires June 30, 2010 …

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Tailspin Toys
The sample application we are using in this virtual machine is a simple ASP.NET MVC 2 storefront called Tailspin Toys. …

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Hands-on-Labs / Demo Scripts
The 9 hands-on-labs / demo scripts which accompany this virtual machine cover several of the core capabilities of conducting application lifecycle management with Visual Studio 2010. Each document can be used by an individual in a self-paced hands-on-lab capacity, to learn how to perform a given set of tasks, or used by a presenter to deliver a demonstration or classroom-style training.

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This is a must read post if you want these VM’s. Brain does his usual outstanding work in providing all the download URL’s for feeding to your download manager of choice, but more importantly how best to use the VM, dealing with the activation messages, etc.

If you need a VS2010/TFS2010 RTM environment to play with, experiment with or do development with (say you’re playing with TFS and want to tweak/dev against it, etc, etc) then there’s no question, get this VM.

(via Visual Studio news - Download now the Visual Studio 2010 RTM Virtual Machine with Sample Data and Hands-on-Labs)

 

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