For those people wanting to keep an eye on what the product team are doing for the next release of Visual Studio Team System, the latest Community Technology Preview (CTP) is now available for download. The “Rosario April CTP” or more offically the “Microsoft® Visual Studio® Team System code name “Rosario” April 2008 CTP”, provides a fantastic opportunity to provide the product team with your feedback. The CTP comes in the form of a preinstalled and configured virtual machine that you can quickly and easily get up and running with a minimum of fuss.

Providing Feedback

Feedback in the form of bugs and suggestions can be submitted via http://connect.microsoft.com/visualstudio. Make sure when you submit issues through Connect that you indicate the product version as being “Visual Studio Team System Code Name “Rosario” (April 2008 CTP)

The download

The virtual machine is provided as a number of compressed files totaling a little over 8Gb so I’d suggest you use a download manager such as Free Download Manager which I’ve used for some time now without issue. You can get an FDM friendly list of the download parts from Jeff’s blog post as well as a list of the new scenarios and walkthrough available with with new CTP.

The download page is available on the Microsoft website here.

Happy downloading.