Windows 10 - Visual Studio and associated apps

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Windows 10 - Visual Studio and associated apps

etl2016

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May 18, 2016 at 4:48 am

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Hi,
Am new to MS environment, coming from a diff programming background.
I am setting up my home computer for a collection of MS development tools. Could you please let me know the below:
1) I have Windows 10 64-bit OS. Which version of Visual Studio is stable and is (best) compatible with W10 ? If VS2013 is compatible on W10, I would prefer it, more than newer versions.
2) Which version of Visual Studio is compatible with SQL Server Database 2012 and MSBI tools 2012 (SSIS, SSAS, SSRS). Again, my preference is VS2013 Update 5, unless there are any known issues with this combination.
3) What other supporting apps should I install for generally Microsoft Business Intelligence area of work? .NET framework? If so, which version (in alignmentmet with above questions)
4) For C# programming, should I install anything in specific?
5) Does TFS (team foundation server) come as an integral part of Visual Studio or should that be installed separately?
many thanks for your help 🙂

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Lowell SSC Guru Points: 323482 More actions · Answer 1

etl2016 (5/18/2016)
Hi,
Am new to MS environment, coming from a diff programming background.
I am setting up my home computer for a collection of MS development tools. Could you please let me know the below:
1) I have Windows 10 64-bit OS. Which version of Visual Studio is stable and is (best) compatible with W10 ? If VS2013 is compatible on W10, I would prefer it, more than newer versions.
2) Which version of Visual Studio is compatible with SQL Server Database 2012 and MSBI tools 2012 (SSIS, SSAS, SSRS). Again, my preference is VS2013 Update 5, unless there are any known issues with this combination.
3) What other supporting apps should I install for generally Microsoft Business Intelligence area of work? .NET framework? If so, which version (in alignmentmet with above questions)
4) For C# programming, should I install anything in specific?
5) Does TFS (team foundation server) come as an integral part of Visual Studio or should that be installed separately?
many thanks for your help 🙂

For Q1 &2 ,hope this helps. I recently upgraded my windows 7 laptop to windows 10.

I have the VS2010/VS2012/VS2013 installed,and use them all depending on which environment i'm supporting.

that means i've installed both SSDT-2012/SSDT-BI2012, and SSDT-2013/SSDT-BI2013, and all the latest updates. if it exists, i add the update.

For Q3, you'll end up needing all.net frameworks: 3.51,4,4.5. depending on your Excel version, you might need Powerpivot and PowerQuery, and I have PowerBI Desktop installed, so i can support some of our analyst's initiatives.

For Q4, nothing offhand jumps out at me.

For Q5,

At work,we have a separate TFS server, and you can use any VS version to connect to it to create or check items in or out. I don't have TFS as a local instance to do source control. someone else may have a suggestion for that.

Lowell

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Lowell (5/18/2016)
For Q1 &2 ,hope this helps. I recently upgraded my windows 7 laptop to windows 10.
I have the VS2010/VS2012/VS2013 installed,and use them all depending on which environment i'm supporting.
that means i've installed both SSDT-2012/SSDT-BI2012, and SSDT-2013/SSDT-BI2013, and all the latest updates. if it exists, i add the update.

Just for trivia's sake, 4 versus 4.5 might be an in place upgrade / mutually exclusive thing. So you'd probably want to decide specifically for your particular support situation.

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/NETVersioningAndMultiTargetingNET45IsAnInplaceUpgradeToNET40.aspx

Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 728164 More actions · Answer 3

I have Win 10, VS 2010, 2013, 2015. All seem stable, though I don't really use VS2010 anymore.

I tend to use Git for VCS, and this is an option in TFS2015. I do like VSTS/TFS online, free for a user, can do Git for distributed, offline work. There are so many improvements in TFS 2015, I'd not look at anything earlier anymore. TFS is separate, but look at visualstudio.com

C#, nothing other than the VS language. There is VSCode, which is lightweight. Take a look - https://code.visualstudio.com/

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