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# Thursday, December 11, 2008

I finally took the time to put together a chart showing which edition of Visual Studio needs to be installed on the Team Build server to achieve specific features. As you can see, Team Suite has you covered. As for the question of whether or not you need to purchase an additional copy of Visual Studio for this - that question has been answered on Jeff Beehler's blog as well as in the VSTS 2008 Licensing White Paper.

TFBVS

I might also add that Brian Randall mentioned that you can automate the validation of Architect Edition Deployment Diagrams on the Team Build server if you install that edition; but, being that he's the only guy on the planet to probably do that, I didn't think it was worth mentioning.

Thursday, December 11, 2008 9:58:48 AM (Mountain Standard Time, UTC-07:00)  #    Comments [2]   Richard Hundhausen | Team Foundation Build | Visual Studio 2008  | 
Thursday, December 11, 2008 12:34:18 PM (Mountain Standard Time, UTC-07:00)
Thanks for the Chart. Interesting comment about architecture validation. Cameron over at the Microsoft team seems to think automated arch validation during the build is important enough to post about improved capabilities for Arch Edition 2010. http://blogs.msdn.com/camerons/archive/2008/12/11/incorporate-layer-validation-in-your-builds.aspx. With the way the new Arch Edition 2010 is shaping up, hopefully we will care enough about it to include it in the build process.
Sunday, December 14, 2008 3:24:40 PM (Mountain Standard Time, UTC-07:00)
I like you're cynical comment about Brian Randell.

However, I want to let you know that at our small software firm in Denver...we do in fact do validation of the deployment diagrams as part of our build process. [It's been very helpful with making our release cycle much smoother].

Keep up the great posts about TFS...

Our rule of thumb is to have team suite installed on all of our build servers...
Jon Fariston
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