If any new updates for VS 2010 arrives, the Version Info Tool will be updated accordingly.īe aware that these updates apply to the Visual Studio Client Tools, and that includes the Test Manager.Īnd if I get enough available time, I will add it to the top level menu or the status bar IF you are outdated. It is named very strangely at the download site Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Team Foundation Server 11 Compatibility GDR, but it is the correct one. I call this for the CU3, because it is a cumulative update. Then you install the latest cumulative update, which is the GRD March 2012. The principles for updating Visual Studio is to first get it up to SP1. If you want information on what your current updates is, you have the name there, and if you go here, at the bottom of that post, the different updates are listed with links to information pages for them. The tool gives you links to the download sites, and also to information pages for the updates. Or, if you have the SP1 but have missed the later updates: However, if you are lagging behind in your updates, this might be what you will see then: Go to the Visual Studio Help menu, next to the bottom is “Version Info”, select it and if everything is as it should be, this is what it should show: So, enter the Version and Update Info Tool. And, do you know what IS the latest version – I have a list published here, but still – it is hard work! Only SOME of these indicates the correct cumulative updates that have been, five in all for the SP1. So far so good.īut to find out if you have the latest update, you need to scroll down (green arrows), and then, what you find is a series of hotfix numbers. If you look at the Help/About in Visual Studio, it tells you if you have SP1 or just the RTM version installed.
The next issue then comes – how do we find out IF the latest version is installed. The question also often comes when we notice that something doesn’t quite work the way it should, and we then realize it is caused by not having the latest update. The Visual Studio development teams are continuously making improvements to the product. Should you always update ? YES, you should.
When I ask them if they have updated it to the latest version, there are many who simply don’t know. In my work I meet many developers, tester and project managers, all using Visual Studio.
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