Many developers and testers using Visual Studio know Brian Keller (
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/briankel/ ) with his regularly updated virtual machine, which contains the latest version of Visual Studio and all the necessary infrastructure for studying and evaluating all capabilities of development tools. This virtual machine is accompanied by a set of laboratory works
aka.ms/VS13ALMVM , which already help assess the possibilities of development tools or even learn how to use new features that you either did not know or did not use before.
Laboratory works are in English, and each time we told about this set of laboratory and virtual machines, we were asked to make these laboratory works accessible in Russian.
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You can
download and install Visual Studio 2013 yourself or use the virtual machine prepared by Brian Keller using the instructions for downloading from his blog
aka.ms/VS13ALMVM . This is a
Hyper-V based virtual machine and it works out of the box on Windows Server 2008 x64, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, Windows 8 (if the processor supports SLAT), Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012, and Windows Server 2012 R2 . Also note that every time you start the virtual machine, the time in it is set to July 9, 2013, this is done so that you can comfortably perform lab work.
What does a virtual machine contain?
- Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Standard Evaluation
- Microsoft Visual Studio Ultimate 2013
- Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2013
- Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2013 (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook)
- Microsoft Visio Professional 2013
- Microsoft Release Management for Visual Studio 2013
- Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Standard
- Examples of user data to perform 24 laboratory work