First Look: Beta 2 Diagnostic Tools

John Robbins is either the fastest blogger known to man, or is an extemely well prepared geek. He has already provided a series of great First Look blog posts about Visual Studio Beta 2 Diagnostic Tools, check them out.

• VS 2010 Beta 2 Debugger In-Depth First Look



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  VS 2010 Beta 2 IntelliTrace In-Depth First Look



• VS 2010 Beta 2 Code Analysis In-Depth First Look



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  VS 2010 Beta 2 Sampling and Instrumentation Profiling In Depth First Look



• VS 2010 Beta 2 Concurrency Resource Profiling In Depth First Look

Using VSTS 2008 Client and TFS 2010

Want to test out TFS 2010 with your existing Visual Studio 2008 install?

Use the 2008 Forward Compatibility Service Pack - "This is an update for the 2008 SP1 version of Visual Studio Team System Team Explorer and allows the 2008 SP1 version to work with the Team Foundation Server 2010. The update will allow teams to move forward and use the Team Foundation Server 2010 server even if part of the team continues to use the Team Explorer 2008 SP1 client."

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 - the Ultimate one

Beta 2 is available on MSDN- when you get there you'll notice a few things

1. MSDN looks different
2. There's are new VS, TFS..etc Logos
   
3. There isn't a "Team Suite" or other former Team System versions. What you're looking for is now called "Visual Studio Ultimate"
   

There are now less Visual Studio SKUs and here's how they compare to the 2008 versions.



The following graphic shows the migration path for existing MSDN customers, this should happen around the March 22, 2010 launch date. That's right the Launch Date is out!




For more information here's a great fact sheet from Microsoft News room about the Sku structure, Migration and pricing.