RTM Confusion

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Addresses confusion about the availability of Team Explorer in the Visual Studio 2008 RTM release, download options, and related requirements for source control and .NET 3.5.

19 November 2007
Written by Martin Hinshelwood
2 minute read
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I am a little confused by the RTM release of VS2008. I cant find a copy of the Team Explorer RTM or wither it is bundled with Team Suit. This would be a problem if I uninstalled everything only to find that I can’t get my source control…

Does anyone know if Team Suit is bundled with VS2008 Team Suit?

When I was on MSDN earlier there was only one download and that was Visual Studio 2008 Team Suit. Now that have added more downloads, and the site is dead again :)

All the flavours are here, but no Team Explorer? Do I need to download Team Foundation Server just to get Team Explorer? Granted I need it anyway as I have a deployed instance of TFS Beta 2, but not at home :)

And where is the .NET 3.5 redistributable… I have applications that are hot to trot but I can’t roll out on Beta 2.

Ah well, I will stow my impatience and wait…

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