{"id":1481,"date":"2014-04-02T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-02T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/bharry\/2014\/04\/02\/tfs-2013-2-update-2-released\/"},"modified":"2024-03-26T11:06:29","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T18:06:29","slug":"tfs-2013-2-update-2-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/tfs-2013-2-update-2-released\/","title":{"rendered":"TFS 2013.2 (Update 2) Released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And VS 2013.2 RC released\u2026<\/p>\n<p>OK, this is weird, I admit, so I\u2019ll explain.\u00a0 Today we officially released the final version of TFS 2013 Update 2 and we released a Release Candidate of Visual Studio 2013 Update 2.\u00a0 It\u2019s weird that we RTMed TFS Update to but only RCed VS Update 2.\u00a0 We generally work hard to RTM them at the same time.\u00a0 This time we couldn\u2019t.\u00a0 The reason had to do with some hard dates with regard to VS Online and on-premises TFS compatibility with it.<\/p>\n<p>If you read my blog, then you likely know that we are approaching the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/bharry\/archive\/2014\/02\/21\/vs-online-early-adopter-program-extended-to-may-7-2014.aspx\">end of the Early Adopter program<\/a> and transition to standard commercial terms.\u00a0 Part of making this transition is giving those customers who choose to transition from the service to on-premises TFS, a reasonably seamless way to do so.\u00a0 In order to do that, customers need to have TFS 2013 Update 2 to enable exporting data from the service.\u00a0 We also want to make sure people have a reasonable amount of time to make the transition.\u00a0 Given all of the dependencies and time window math, we concluded that we needed to have TFS 2013 Update 2 available in final form (we didn\u2019t want to suggest that people export to a pre-release TFS version) by today \u2013 hence the TFS release today.\u00a0 That give people between now (April 2nd) and May 7th (the end of the early adopter program) to transition to on prem and avoid paying any service charges for their use.<\/p>\n<p>Visual Studio, however, was not ready to release on the same day so we made the difficult decision to release them at different times.\u00a0 It will be a little confusing for a bit, but not for long.\u00a0 This VS release is a release candidate and isn\u2019t too far from our final release.\u00a0 And, there are no compat issues between TFS Update 2 and any variant of VS 2013 (RTM, Update 1, Update 2 RC).\u00a0 **UPDATE 4\/10\/2014** It turns out there is one compat issue when VS 2013 RTM or Update 1 is installed on a TFS build agent that has been upgraded to Update 2, hence you should upgrade both TFS and VS on your build agents at the same time.\u00a0 This does not affect what version of VS you can use on the client &#8211; only on the build machine itself.\u00a0 You can use this TFS release with any version of VS that supports TFS 2013.<\/p>\n<p>You can download Update 2 here:<\/p>\n<p>Final release:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkId=392762\">TFS 2013 Update 2 RTM<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkId=392763\">TFS 2013 Express Update 2 RTM<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Release candidates:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkId=390521\">VS 2013 Update 2 RC Patch<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkId=331030\">VS Ultimate 2013 Update 2 RC Full install<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkId=331032\">VS Premium 2013 Update 2 RC Full install<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkId=331031\">VS Pro 2013 Update 2 RC Full install<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkID=386598\">VS Express for Windows 2013 Update 2 RC Full install<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkId=393085\">Release Management 2013 Update 2 RC<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkId=393087\">Agents 2013 Update 2 RC<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkId=393086\">VS 2013 Remote Tools Update 2 RC<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You\u2019ll notice that VS provides both a patch and a set of \u201cfull install\u201d downloads.\u00a0 This update is big enough that we felt enabling people to do a single install (for new installs) rather than having to install RTM and then patch was important.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ll also find the KB article here: <a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkId=390522\">http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkId=390522<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now,\u00a0 let\u2019s talk about what\u2019s cool about Update 2.\u00a0 As usual, I\u2019ll focus on the ALM side of things and let Soma and others focus on the core VS enhancements.<\/p>\n<p>In my post (<a title=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/bharry\/archive\/2014\/02\/05\/vs-tfs-2013-2-update-2-ctp-released.aspx?CommentPosted=true#commentmessage\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/bharry\/archive\/2014\/02\/05\/vs-tfs-2013-2-update-2-ctp-released.aspx?CommentPosted=true#commentmessage\">http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/bharry\/archive\/2014\/02\/05\/vs-tfs-2013-2-update-2-ctp-released.aspx?CommentPosted=true#commentmessage<\/a>) of the first CTP we released, I covered:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Work Item Tagging<\/li>\n<li>Backlog management improvements<\/li>\n<li>Work item charting improvements<\/li>\n<li>Export test plan to HTML<\/li>\n<li>Release Management \u201cTags\u201d<\/li>\n<li>An assortment of Git improvements<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In my post (<a title=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/bharry\/archive\/2014\/03\/05\/vs-tfs-2013-2-ctp-2-available.aspx\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/bharry\/archive\/2014\/03\/05\/vs-tfs-2013-2-ctp-2-available.aspx\">http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/bharry\/archive\/2014\/03\/05\/vs-tfs-2013-2-ctp-2-available.aspx<\/a>) on CTP 2, I also talked about:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The new \u201cIncoming Changes Indicator\u201d for CodeLens<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And new things that I want to point out in the RTM include:<\/p>\n<h3>Shared Parameters management<\/h3>\n<p>Shared parameters allow you to create sets of test data that can then be referenced by various test cases and shared across the team.\u00a0 This includes traceability from the test case to the references parameter sets and from the parameter sets to the test cases that reference them.\u00a0 When you run manual tests, these parameter values will be in the UI to make them easy to find and you can also bind them in the test context of automated tests to make it super easy to author and execute lots of permutations of data values in automated tests.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2014\/04\/5076.image_thumb_3C743671.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15780\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2014\/04\/5076.image_thumb_3C743671.png\" alt=\"Image 5076 image thumb 3C743671\" width=\"755\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2014\/04\/5076.image_thumb_3C743671.png 755w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2014\/04\/5076.image_thumb_3C743671-300x168.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 755px) 100vw, 755px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Coded UI and Unit test support for Windows Phone 8.1 apps<\/h3>\n<p>Not surprising but, with the release of Windows Phone 8.1, we\u2019ve enhanced our testing tools to support testing the new applications you\u2019ll be building.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Cloud Load Testing and Application Insights integration<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The single biggest enhancement request we\u2019ve gotten on our cloud load testing service is the ability to capture application performance counters and correlate them to the load test (our on premises load test product has enabled this for a long time).\u00a0 Given that we are building a rich application analytics service in Application Insights, rather than replicate much of that functionality, we\u2019ve chosen to integrate our cloud load testing experience with it.\u00a0 You might wonder why I\u2019m talking about services in an Update 2 post.\u00a0 The reason is that the cloud load testing service is really a companion service to VS Ultimate and part of enabling this integration involved updates to Visual Studio.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Here\u2019s a Channel 9 video on how to configure this: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.ch9.ms\/ch9\/96d7\/a396847d-9b41-4e3f-9833-03359c6396d7\/AIELS_Source.wmv\">Cloud Load Testing with Application Insights walk-through WMV (2.5 Mbps)<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>Data Export from VS Online to TFS Update 2<\/h3>\n<p>I mentioned it above but I\u2019ll mention it again here.\u00a0 TFS 2013 Update 2 enables data export from VS Online into an on-premises TFS server.\u00a0 You\u2019ll find more details on this in a post I\u2019m doing tomorrow about the service.<\/p>\n<h3>Other notes<\/h3>\n<p>TFS 2013.2 introduces support for SQL Server 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The TFS 2013.2 Sharepoint extensions are now unblocked on Windows 2012 R2<\/p>\n<p>Overall, it\u2019s a very nice update with a bunch of new stuff.\u00a0 Of course, I\u2019ve left out a ton \u2013 most of the Windows\/Windows Phone development enhancements, Azure tooling improvements, web development improvements, .NET improvements, etc.\u00a0 When all of that is taken into account, I think this is the largest \u201cUpdate\u201d we\u2019ve ever done.\u00a0 I hope you like it and, as always, we appreciate feedback.\u00a0 In the meantime, we\u2019ll keep cranking out new capabilities on the service and start thinking about the next Update.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks,<\/p>\n<p>Brian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And VS 2013.2 RC released\u2026 OK, this is weird, I admit, so I\u2019ll explain.\u00a0 Today we officially released the final version of TFS 2013 Update 2 and we released a Release Candidate of Visual Studio 2013 Update 2.\u00a0 It\u2019s weird that we RTMed TFS Update to but only RCed VS Update 2.\u00a0 We generally work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":244,"featured_media":14617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,4],"class_list":["post-1481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-tfs","tag-visual-studio"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>And VS 2013.2 RC released\u2026 OK, this is weird, I admit, so 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