Followups from yesterday's Live Learning

Thanks to everybody (more than 100 of you!) who joined me yesterday for What's New in Visual Studio 2010. I hope you saw a lot of useful and exciting features coming soon to a Visual Studio near you. There were a couple of questions asked that I didn't have the answer for at the time. I sent an email and got the answers, so here they are:

Q: I have VS 2008 Pro. Our IT has TFS server. I just need to link to IT TFS server from my licensed Visual Studio. I noticed I can download Team Explorer from Microsoft’s web site. But do I need to pay a license to get Team Explorer to connect to TFS server?

A: Yes. Visual Studio 2008 users are required to purchase a Client Access License for TFS.

Q: I was wondering if with VS 2010 we would have a problem running our project's Team Builds in Team Server Foundation 2008?  We seemed to encounter this problem when we moved from VS 2005 to VS 2008 but we still kept TFS 2005.

A: The Build definitions changed from TFS 2005 to TFS 2008. You can continue triggering builds from an older version, even with a newer client (i.e. build on check-in), but a newer client cannot edit the builds of an older TFS. This will be true with TFS 2010 as well as TFS 2010 uses Windows Workflow for build automation.

Let me know if you have additional questions.

Robert