Legacy Update: Get back online, activate, and install updates on your legacy Windows PC

By releasing periodic updates, we can enhance and expand Visual Studio to support the latest software development innovations for building and managing modern apps. For more information, see Visual Studio Updates and the Visual Studio Update KB Article.

PLEASE NOTE: This Community Technology Preview has not been subject to final validation and is not meant to be run on production workstations or servers.

For the Visual Studio update package: The recommended approach for upgrading Visual Studio on test workstations is installing the latest Visual Studio Update CTP on top of an RTM release or a previous CTP build of that Update. Visual Studio CTPs can be upgraded to a different build.

For full-upgrade packages (ex: Team Foundation Server, Release Management, Remote Tools): Do not install an Update CTP on a production server, as it will put the server in an unsupported state. Unlike with Visual Studio CTPs, installing a full-upgrade package CTP completely replaces the current release on the server with the CTP. Full-upgrade package CTPs cannot be upgraded to future CTPs or releases nor “downgraded” to a previous release.

Note: The Release Management update is a full layout that includes the latest feature additions and bug fixes for "Release Management for Visual Studio 2013". Before you try to apply the Release Management update, make sure that you have a full backup of your current databases and RSA crypto key (refer to the Microsoft Application Lifecycle Management blog post for RSA crypto keys export instructions). If the Release Management update installation fails, you will be unable to restart the update or roll back to the earlier version of Release Management without performing a restore operation.
Release Management for Visual Studio 2013 with Update 3 CTP 1 is time-sensitive. The software will stop running ninety days after you install it. This trial version must be uninstalled prior to upgrading to the full version.

Files

Status: Deleted This download is no longer available on microsoft.com. The downloads below are archives provided by the Internet Archive Wayback Machine from the Microsoft Download Center prior to May 2014.

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File sizes and hashes are retrieved from the Wayback Machine’s indexes. They may not match the latest versions of files hosted on Microsoft servers.

Please see the corresponding 2013 release for specific system requirements:

Select the “DOWNLOAD” button above for each of the packages you want to install.

CTP Update Package per offering:

• Visual Studio
• VS2013.3 CTP.exe

• Team Foundation Server (Choose either Web Installer or ISO Image)
• Web Installer: tfs_server.exe
• ISO Image: vs2013.3.ctp1_tfs_enu.iso

• Team Foundation Server Express (Choose either Web Installer or ISO Image)
• Web Installer: tfs_express.exe
• ISO Image: vs2013.3.ctp1_tfs_exp_enu.iso

• Release Management (Choose between Client, Deployment, Server, ISO Image)
• rm_client.exe
• rm_deploymenttrial90.exe
• rm_server.exe
• vs2013.3.ctp1_rm_enu.iso

• Remote Tools (Choose architecture: x86, x64, arm)
• rtools_setup_x86.exe
• rtools_setup_x64.exe
• rtools_setup_arm.exe