I want to download VS 2010 Ultimate through my MSDN licence, but I don't see one for the 64-bit. There's Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 (x86 and x64) - DVD (English), but is that just the server or can I use it for dev too?
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There is no 64 bit VS 2010. If you can, you want to download the ultimate edition. It will give you everything you need to write along with the test tools etc. It will also allow you to access to use the premium edition code contract generation.
Team Foundation Server isn't an IDE. It's a code/project management tool.
Kevin
2010-06-17 22:53:45
So what are my options? I'm on a 64-bit machine.
Prabhu
2010-06-17 22:54:41
The 32 bit version will run on the 64 bit machine without problems.
Kevin
2010-06-17 22:55:13
Hmm...I tried installing it, bit it complained.
Prabhu
2010-06-17 22:55:45
@Prabhu: In what way did it "complain"?
Billy ONeal
2010-06-17 22:56:31
It'll run we use it on all our dev machines and they're all 64-bit.
Kevin
2010-06-17 22:56:52
@Billy ONeal It said "setup failed", and this is the first line in the error log: [06/16/10,13:22:02] VC 10.0 Runtime (x86): [2] CMsiComponent::Install() expects the setup file for VC 10.0 Runtime (x86), but the file failed verification.
Prabhu
2010-06-17 23:01:21
"file failed verification" == corrupted file. It has nothing to do with the fact that it was installing the x86 Visual C++ runtime. If this is a download, try re-downloading. Otherwise clean your DVD.
Billy ONeal
2010-06-17 23:07:32
Yeah, I had that problem too. I had to download it more than once to get it to work. I would try the web installer. That did it for me.
Kevin
2010-06-17 23:08:36
Thanks guys...I didn't know that VS2010 didn't come in 64bit so I assumed that it was that.
Prabhu
2010-06-17 23:13:28
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Team Foundation Server is just that -- TFS -- the server side of Microsoft's source control solution. As Kevin said, Visual Studio itself is 32 bit only. There are a whole bunch of reasons why in this blog post.
Billy ONeal
2010-06-17 22:55:43