Visual Studio 2008 - Team Edition

Yesterday i finally got ride of VS 2008 beta 2 and installed Visual Studio 2008 Team Edition Trial. I have to say, this is such an amazing tool, i really enjoyed the beta and i am very excited that its finally here.

If you did not try it yet, download it from the following location:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=D95598D7-AA6E-4F24-82E3-81570C5384CB

One comment i want to make regarding Team Edition is that it seems to work just fine stand-alone without Foundation Server.

I am bringing this up since i had two separate people tell me that Team Edition will NOT work without Foundation Server. I never used VS 2005 Team Edition so i had no way to argue, even though such a statement never made sense to me. Now i can confirm that having tried it for myself: Visual Studio 2008 Team Edition does NOT require foundation server.

This of course does not mean that you should not try to get Foundation Server, as it will bring many collaboration benefits and Source Control (but that's a topic for a different post).