Visual Studio 2005 (RC) and Team Foundation Server (BETA 3) coming in September!

Steve Smith spreads the word that Visual Studio 2005 (RC) and Team Foundation Server (BETA 3) will ship sometime in September. He also points out that TFS will come with a Go-Live! license which essentially means the quality will be at a point that Microsoft reasonably expects to be able to seamlessly upgrade from TFS (BETA 3) to TFS (RTM) that will ship some time early next year.

I suspect that there are a lot of sites that went ahead without this go-live license but the project managers will be relieved to be able to remove that risk from their project. I guess we’ll find out how painful it is to upgrade from TFS (BETA 2) to TFS (BETA 3).

Putting Team System to one side for a moment, this also means that VS2005 is well into its finaly push to release so I would expect this next release to be pretty solid. If you are starting or have just started a project that is planning to release around November or beyond then you might want to consider VS2005 now.

Heck – I know some customers who have been working with it for a year or so!