New VSTS CTP

This week we received a new version of the Community Technology Preview for Visual Studio 2005 Team System. From the email describing the release:

"The CTP kit will contain a Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1 Refresh and SQL Server 2005 Beta 2 (required prerequisite). This release is based on the Whidbey Beta 1 bits, but now includes the Team Foundation server installation. You will have a matched set of Whidbey compilers/editors/frameworks and Visual Studio 2005 Team System all in one place. While the Whidbey components are still Beta quality, not all Team System bits are beta quality yet."

For now you’ll need to run the Yukon database that stores the Team Foundation data on a separate sever from the Team Foundation integration services (web services) because of dependencies on different versions of the CLR. At release the Team Foundation will ship as a single atomic “thingy” and will not be separable.