Download vsts 2010 ctp

In the past, Windows evaluations could be configured to expire on a precise date. Due to changes in Windows Server , we no longer have a firm expiration date, but there are Activation reminder messages which will appear while you are running the VPC. The good news is that these Activation messages will not cause Windows to stop working; however, you will have to dismiss some Activation messages from time to time.

Activation Toast While running this VPC image you will encounter a "toast" from time to time asking you to activate Windows. Workaround: You can simply ignore this toast, or click the "X" to dismiss it. Workaround: To continue, simply click on "Activate Later.

Every time you launch Word or Excel you will be reminded of this. After 20 uses, most Word and Excel functionality will stop working. You can still read Word and Excel documents, but you will be unable to use any of the Ribbon functionality. This means that some of the walkthroughs dealing with Word or Excel will not work. Workaround: The first 20 times you launch Word or Excel, you can simply click "Cancel" to dismiss the activation dialog.

After that, if you wish to continue using Word or Excel you will need to revert to a fresh copy of this VPC image. You can download the original VPC here. After 20 uses, the Ribbon functionality in Word and Excel will become greyed out:. Project will work 25 times. After that, you can no longer use Project in this VPC image.

It is recommended that you only launch Project if you intend to use one of the walkthroughs that require it. Workaround: If you need to use Project more than 25 times you should revert to a fresh copy of this VPC image. This is due to a hard-coded expiration date in this CTP. Unfortunately, we had to rebuild the packages which means that if you already downloaded some of the CTP parts, you will have to download the whole thing again.

We are truly sorry about the inconvenience. The good news is that we have reset the operating System expiration date so that activation prompts do not appear for the first 60 days This was one of the issues we heard from some community members who got the CTP we originally posted. Thank you for taking the time to evaluate the Visual Studio and.

By the time you get. NET framework 2. Contacting MS technical support is usually useless. The only time they actually do listen to bug reports is during the beta cycle. So, you must either have separate hardware for tests, or run betas in a virtual machine. Taking account that Visual Studio is not exceptionally fast even when running on regular hardware, you must have a killer PC to run it on a virtual machine. So, Microsoft has successfully offloaded QA costs to you, the developer, in both material a effort.

Now they seemed to have made the next logical step: they did away with the installer altogether.