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You perform a new branch operation on another existing branch.

You switch Team Projects or servers without closing Visual Studio. You create a new branch from an existing branch. In Source Control Explorer, a branch operation causes an error and is not completed.Ĭonsider the following scenario in Visual Studio 2012 before Update 5: That’s a pretty cool way of letting us know what is coming and how it is going without bombarding us with too much information on the day of release.The following issues have been fixed in Visual Studio 2012.5: One cool thing I have noticed is that Microsoft seem to be reporting weekly (sprintly?) on new features for the next release, as evidenced by the tracking for Update 2 here: I will also hold fire on updating TFS 2012 for just a while as I don’t have a test TFS box to work on, and want to see if there are any Unknown Unknowns reported back to Microsoft before I deploy.

How long will it be before all of VIsual Studio is web-based…? Quite some time I imagine.Īside from the improvements there are also a considerable amount of bug fixes, plus a cool blue theme! I’ve installed on VS 2012 locally and had no issues and can confirm that no restart of my box was required, however I needed to shut down VS 2012 to mitigate the chance of a restart. So that means I can use the portal a lot more. For me the big win is that you can now download Source Control as a ZIP file, explore Changeset and Compare to previous versions, and send a work item as an email message all through the Web Explorer. If you’re big on Kanban then you’ll benefit from the customizations available for your Kanban board.

So what has changed? According to Microsoft there are 5 key areas that have been focused on: Agile Planning, Quality Enablement, Windows Store Development, Line-of-Business Development, and the General Developer Experience. If you missed out on Update 1 then it is installed as part of Update 2…įor those of you that like to read the manual first, a description of the update is here: You can get it via this link below, or when you boot up VS 2012 a new download should be available.

Regardless, the RTM is ready to download. IN fact I think if I recall the CTP 4 was RTM for TFS 2012 but not for Visual Studio 2012. There have been severaliterations of Update 2 in the form of CTP. Today has seen the release of Visual Studio 2012 – Update 2 RTM.