Visual Studio and TFS 2012 List of Product Updates (Part 1)

By terje

Go to Part 2 – List of extensions and tools for Visual Studio and TFS 2012

Looking for the VS 2010 extensions ? Go to Visual Studio 2010 - List of Product Updates (Part 1) + Extensions (Part 2).

Looking for links to the test adapters, go to this blog post.

UPDATE  Nov 26th 2013:   Visual Studio 2012 Update 4

This information was formerly contained within my blog post on  List of extensions (Part 2), but it seems better to keep this separate now, since the cadence has increased tremendously for VS 2012, and the list grows very fast.

The information contains the download links to all versions and updates, links to information about each version, the version number for each and the release dates. I have also added prerequisites, like the SQL server version necessary.

**Product****Notes****Version number****Date****Applicable to**
[Visual Studio 2012 Update 4](http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39305)Some info [here](http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bharry/archive/2013/07/30/vs-2012-4-update-4-will-exist.aspx)11.0.61030.0Nov 11th 2013VS
[Visual Studio 2012 & TFS 2012](http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/11/en-us/downloads) 11.0.50727.1
   </td>        <td valign="top" width="122"><font size="2">Aug 15th 2012</font></td>        <td valign="top" width="149"><font size="2">Visual Studio and TFS</font></td>     </tr>      <tr>       <td valign="top" width="164"><font size="2">[SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 Cumulative Update 4](http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973602)<u>              <br /></u></font></td>        <td valign="top" width="546"><font size="2">The TFS 2012 requires the CU1 at least, but you should go up to at least CU4, since this update solves a ghost record problem that otherwise may cause your TFS database to not release records the way it should when you clean it up, see [this post](http://geekswithblogs.net/terje/archive/2011/11/15/guide-to-reduce-tfs-database-growth-using-the-test-attachment.aspx) for more information on that issue. </font></td>        <td valign="top" width="122"> </td>        <td valign="top" width="122"><font size="2">Oct 2011</font></td>        <td valign="top" width="149"><font size="2">SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1</font></td>     </tr>   </tbody></table>
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